30 Encouraging Quotes to Share With Your Friends

If any of your friends is in a difficult place right now, is feeling down and miserable, perhaps has lost some of their usual self-belief, then here are 30 encouraging quotes that you may wish to share with them.

Motivational quotes like these can help to lift the mood, inspire, and rebuild self-confidence.

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“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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“If you’re walking down the right path and are willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”

~ Barack Obama


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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

~ Jim Morrison


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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out.”

~ Dr. Seuss


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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

~ Audrey Hepburn


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“It only takes one person to change your life – you.”

~ Ruth Casey


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“Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”

~ Jim Valvano


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“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a a success.”

~ Dr. Joyce Brothers


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“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

~ Golda Meir


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“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

~ Jack Canfield


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“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

~ Mary Engelbreit


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“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

~ Mary Kay Ash


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“Success is how high you bounce when you have hit bottom.”

~ Gen. George Patton


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“When you are doing something you love, or running your own business, work is not work.”

~ Daymond John


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“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”

~ Matt Biondi


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“Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.”

~ Conrad Hilton


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“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

~ C. S. Lewis


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

~ Farrah Gray


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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

~ Rosa Parks


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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

~ Helen Keller


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“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

~ Ronnie Lott


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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”

~Abraham Lincoln


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“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”

~ Katherine Hepburn


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“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

~ Mother Teresa


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“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

~ Oprah Winfrey


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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

~ Jane Goodall


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“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

~ Henry Ford


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“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

~ William James