Encouraging Words from Famous People

Here you will find the words of some famous people. Enjoy the words of wisdom they are sharing, find encouragment in them.

"One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better."
Colonel Harland Sanders

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
Benjamin Spock

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
Hugh Miller

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
Mary Kay Ash

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball

"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney

"You can do it if you believe you can!"
Napoleon Hill

"The best way out is always through."
Helen Keller

"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill

"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them."
Tom Krause

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

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
Lou Holtz

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
Author Unknown

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."
Charles Swindoll