21 Encouraging Quotes About Courage, Strength, Tough Times, Failure

1. "Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet

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2. "Failure is success in progress." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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3. "It takes errors to see what you’re doing incorrectly. It takes courage to try again and succeed." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet

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4. "Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet

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5. "When you get through this, you are going to be something else, a better, stronger you!" (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet

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6. "No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around."Click to tweet

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7. "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times i fell down, and got back up again." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet

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8. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor." (Aristotle) Click to tweet

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9. "Courage is your birthright. It’s inside each and every one of us. You were born with it, and you can tap into it anytime you want." (Mel Robbins) Click to tweet

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10. "At the end of the day, hard work may not be enough. You still may fail. But you keep going out there and go after it." (David Goggins) Click to tweet

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11. "Always ask what the universe is trying to teach you. Especially when it is punching you in the face!" (Justin Kan) Click to tweet

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12. "Any kind of encounter with adversity or limitation, at any age, can serve as the crucible for forging the attitude [of fearlessness]." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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13. "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." (Horace Mann) Click to tweet

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14. "You tried? Try harder. It hurt? Get hurt again. You failed? Fail again. You lost? Lose again. You’ll never win until you learn to lose and keep moving forward." (Ralph Napolitano) Click to tweet

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15. "Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in." (David Goggins) Click to tweet

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16. "Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them." (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Click to tweet

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17. "When you are going through difficult times, remember: you might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you’re still here. That is a victory. Show your happiness and celebrate your ability to go forward." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet

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18. "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) Click to tweet

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19. "Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet

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20. "If you’re in a tough situation or facing difficulty, try reframing the issue into a positive that works in your favor. Bad breakup? Good, now you have more time to work on yourself. Failed a test? Good, now you can study harder and learn more. Bad becomes good." (Paul Domenick) Click to tweet

21. "We are trained to think life progresses linearly. It isn’t: we experience setbacks all the time. Injuries while training for a marathon, upset customers or lost sales, bad days on the path to enlightenment. Don’t be discouraged: everyone trips up some of the time." (Justin Kan) Click to tweet