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Love And Encouragement Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Kindness And Compassion

Compassion and kindness are the ultimate acts of bravery.
Amit Ray

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Hope And Optimism

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Seth Godin

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Strength And Courage

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy

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

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Forgiveness And Letting Go

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right and good and true.
Joyce Meyer

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.
Joyce Meyer

The only way to heal from our past is to be willing to forgive.
Iyanla Vanzant

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Believing In Yourself

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.
Chantal Sutherland

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Brad Henry

Believe in yourself, take action, and you will succeed.
Jerry Bruckner

Believe in yourself and your abilities. That's the only way to attract wonderful things into your life.
Roy T. Bennett

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Patience And Endurance

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Endurance is the power to withstand pain or hardships; it is the ability to overcome obstacles and to continue to move forward.
Unknown

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer

Endurance is the ability to stay focused on a goal or task, no matter how difficult or challenging it may be.
Unknown

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Trust And Faith

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado

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

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Trust is earned when actions meet words.
Chris Butler

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Finding Joy And Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Empathy And Understanding

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Andrea Marwah

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is the key to understanding and connecting with others.
Oprah Winfrey

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other human beings.
Unknown

Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
Brené Brown

Empathy is the highest form of knowledge.
Bill Bullard

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Carl Rogers

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Growth And Personal Development

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself that you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Friendship And Support

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.
Heidi Wills

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Gratitude And Appreciation

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Self-Love And Self-Care

Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer

Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.
Unknown

Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush

Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
Unknown

Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.
Katie Reed

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille

Self-care is not a luxury. It’s an essential part of being alive and healthy.
Audre Lorde

Love And Encouragement Quotes About Perseverance And Resilience

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

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