could you give some ecouraging quotations you know of?

Question

encouraging quotes?

Answer 1

"Accept the challenge so that you make feel the exhilaration of victory"

it means that if you dont accept the challenges in life, there is no chance that you will be able to feel a victory.

Answer 2

Well, it looks like volusianis gave you just about every quote in the book (or whatever website he was using), but here are my two favorite inspirational quotes:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." - Eleanor Powell

Another good one comes from the movie Braveheart (I know, it's very trite). At the end, when William Wallace is waiting to be executed, and the French princess says she doesn't want him to die, he responds, "every man dies, but not every man truly lives." That one was part of my inspiration to finally take the backpacking trip through Europe I had always dreamed about. I met my wife on that trip!

Answer 3

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.
-- Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer (1849-1914)

Answer 4

Seize the Day (Carpe Diem)

Answer 5

"Share every hardship, the same food, the spoils of war, and your men with follow you without hesitation into death."--Sun Tzu

Answer 6

Everything happens twice

Answer 7

encouraging you to do what?

be more specific and ill edit

i still dont get what you want to be encouraged about.

Answer 8

"to give anything less than your best is to sacrafice the gift"
---steve prefontaine
(record braking runner)

Answer 9

I believe you may be looking for inspirational quotations.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
--Abigail Van Buren


"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, it might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir


"When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength\ while loving someone deeply gives you courage."


"Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities" - Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March


"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like a violin."
- John Lubbock


"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

From poem Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College by
Thomas Gray, 1716 - 1771

To acquire knowledge, one must study\ but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant



"Time ripens all things. No man's born wise." Cervantes



You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

~ Alan Alda ~

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

~ Woody Allen ~

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

~ Walter Anderson ~

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

~ Roy Ash ~

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

~ Ray Bradbury ~

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

~ Les Brown ~

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

~ Warren Buffett ~

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore.

~ Dale Carnegie ~

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

~ Mike Conner ~

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

~ Georges Danton ~

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost ~

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

~ John W. Gardner ~


Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

~ John Havlicek ~


I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

~ Vladimir Horowitz ~

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

~ Shirley Hufstedler ~

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

~ Jimmy Johnson ~

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

~ Erica Jong ~

You've got to keep fighting\ you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

~ Elia Kazan ~

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

~ Helen Keller ~

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

~ John F. Kennedy ~

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy ~

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged
all their lives.

~ Walter Lippmann ~

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

~ Cadet Maxim ~

Who dares wins.

~ Motto of the British Special Air Service ~

Never tell me the odds.

~ Star Wars - Han Solo Movie ~

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

~ Henry Cardinal Newman ~

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

~ Alex Noble ~

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your *** on the line.

~ Nick Nolte ~

Educated risks are the key to success.

~ William Olsten ~

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

~ Trina Paulus ~

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

~ Pilpay ~

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

~ Plutarch ~

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

~ Frank Scully ~

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

~ Julia Soul ~

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

~ Richard Stine ~

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

~ Alvin Toffler ~

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

~ Source Unknown ~

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

~ Source Unknown ~

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

~ Meredith West ~


Half of the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important.

~ T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford - Supposedly said by Ford to his team of engineers when they told him that building a V-8 engine was impossible. This leads to the final quote herein:

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

~ William Feather ~

NOTE: All of above have been collected piecemeal through the years and are from my own 'personal library.' I could have included 300+ more