30 Quotes on ENCOURAGEMENT in Business and in Life!

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.””  ~Ayn Rand

When you count all the number of times you KEEP ON GETTING UP, compared to the number of times you fell... guess which number is greater, and more importantly, a true reflection of your reality? When life knocks you down, that experience makes your triumph all worth it because you choose to stand back up and knock the challenge out of the ball park that much harder! 

Whether you are at your peak, stuck, or at the bottom, may you find these select 30 Encouragement Quotes empowering, firing you up with CAN DO power to actualize your dream and thrive in business and in life!  In the spirit of encouraging one another, If you have a word of encouragement to share, or favorite encouragement quotes of your own, by all means add them in the comments section below.  Thank you!

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1.   "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you CAN DO."  ~John Wooden
 

2.   “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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”  ~H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

3.   “Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.”  ~Donald Trump

4.   “A word of ENCOURAGEMENT from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of ENCOURAGEMENT from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”  ~John C. Maxwell

5.   “Leaders must ENCOURAGE their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”  ~Warren G. Bennis

6.   “Listen to the desires of your children. ENCOURAGE them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”  ~Denis Waitley

7.   “You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.”  ~Og Mandino

8.   “Instruction does much, but ENCOURAGEMENT everything."  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9.   “ENCOURAGEMENT from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert.” ~Claire Gillian

10.  “A word of ENCOURAGEMENT during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”  ~Author Unknown

11.  “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and ENCOURAGING your greatest asset.”  ~Tom Hopkins

12.  “I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of ENCOURAGING people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.”  ~Queen Elizabeth II

13.  “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”  ~Flavia Weedn

14.  “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”  ~Christian D. Larson

15.  “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”  ~Maya Angelou

16.  “Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”  ~Og Mandino

17.  “I know of no more ENCOURAGING fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”  ~Henry David Thoreau

18.  “One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of ENCOURAGEMENT.  When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.”  ~John O'Donohue

19.  “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”  ~Doug Firebaugh

20.  “If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”  ~Vincent Van Gogh

21.  “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

22.  “Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can.”  ~Arthur Ashe

23.  “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible' ”  ~Audrey Hepburn

24.  “Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.”  ~Author Unknown

25.  “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive”  ~Howard Thurman

26.  “Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.”  ~Jim Rohn

27.  You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with ENCOURAGING and hope-building people.  ~Zig Ziglar

28.  “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”  ~Mae Jemison

29.  “Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under ENCOURAGEMENT.”  ~Donald A. Laird

30.  “ENCOURAGEMENT adds oxygen to one's life personally, and creates a healthier culture within organizations when implemented by practice, professionally.”  ~Annie Armen 

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