100 Words of Encouragement and Strength in Hard Times

In a world often dominated by challenges and uncertainties, the power of uplifting words cannot be overstated. Whether you’re seeking a source of motivation for personal growth or simply a daily dose of positivity, these 100 words of encouragement are here to inspire. From the wisdom of poets, philosophers, and everyday heroes, each word encapsulates the strength and encouragement needed to overcome obstacles and emerge stronger on the other side.

Let these 100 words of encouragement be a guiding force and a reminder that, no matter the circumstances, you possess the inner strength to endure and thrive.

100 Words of Encouragement and Strength

1. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.” – Robin Sharma

3. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

4. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

5. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

6. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

7. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

8. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

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9. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

10. “The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Terry Pratchett

11. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

12. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

13. “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” – Baltasar Gracian

14. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius

15. “You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.” – Jim Rohn

16. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

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17. “Skills are cheap, passion is priceless.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

18. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

19. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

20. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” – Mark Cuban

21. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

23. “Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts.” – Earl Nightingale

24. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

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25. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

26. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

27. “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir people’s blood. Make big plans and aim high in hope and work.” – Daniel H Burnham

28. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” – Zig Ziglar

29. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

30. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

31. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

32. “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.” – Mark Twain

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33. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

34. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” – Anonymous

35. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley

36. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

37. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

38. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

39. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

40. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

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41. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

42. “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

44. “The biggest mistake people make in life is NOT making a living at doing what they most enjoy.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

45. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

46. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca

48. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

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49. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

50. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” – Orison Swett Marden

51. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

52. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

53. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

54. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

55. “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” – Benjamin Franklin

56. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

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57. “The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.” – Jack Canfield

58. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

59. “You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can because that’s where you will find success, on the other side of failure.” – Thomas Watson

60. “Don’t confuse comfort with happiness.” – Dean Karnazes

61. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden

62. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

63. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

64. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey

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65. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” – Winston Churchill

66. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

67. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

68. “We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” – Earl Nightingale

69. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

70. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

71. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

72. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!” – Richard E. Grant

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73. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

74. “Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.” – Mandy Hale

75. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

76. “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

77. “There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” – Hope Hicks

78. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell

79. “In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!” – Zig Ziglar

80. “Don’t wait, life goes faster than you think.” – Unknown

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81. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

82. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practised every day.” – Jim Rohn

83. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

84. “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates

85. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

86. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

87. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma

88. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

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89. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

90. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

91. “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.” – Roy T. Bennett

92. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone

93. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill

94. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Viktor E. Frankl

95. “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

96. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” – Roy Bennett

97. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

98. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee

100. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

Conclusion

Words have an extraordinary ability to shape our perceptions and influence our actions. Let the wisdom contained within this collection be a constant reminder that challenges are opportunities for growth, and setbacks are stepping stones toward success. Embrace the power of positivity, harness the strength encapsulated in these words, and forge ahead with the confidence that you possess the inner fortitude to overcome any obstacle.