Encouraging Thoughts

Everyone needs encouragement, no matter who it is from. We use it to succeed in our everyday life. We use it to stop procrastinating and we use it to better our future. It's one of the great aspects of life that we never stop and think about. However, it truly is one of the most important things. Below is a list of 10 thoughts of encouragement from famous persons throughout history.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
John Aughey

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