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Words of Encouragement For Hard Times

Words of Encouragement For Hard Times

Last updated: September 24, 2024

41 Words of Encouragement For Hard Times organized by Most Popular

“Counting your blessings increases them. People who take the time to focus on the things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.”
— Sheryl Sandberg, 2017 commencement remarks from Sheryl Sandberg
Tagged: Grace, Count Your Blessings, grateful, Happiness, Encouraging, Calm Catalog
“The earth has never stopped moving, growing, evolving for anyone and neither should you.”
— Nikita Gill, Your Soul Is A River
Tagged: Your Soul Is A River, Poetry, Love Yourself First, Strong, Independence, You Are Strong, strength, Finding Strength, Survival, Loving Yourself, After A Breakup, After Him, Encouraging, Mottos, life advice
“I know you can’t promise much right now, but please promise me this – promise me you’ll hang in there because I can promise you things will get better.”
— Becca Martin, To My Best Friend Suffering Through Depression Right Now, Please Hang In There
Tagged: Promise, It Will Get Better, Survivor, Encouraging
“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”
— Eve Ensler, I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World
Tagged: Challenge Yourself, Motivational, Encouraging
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
— Rumi, Alpha Black
Tagged: Encouraging, Advice
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.”
— Leonardo Dicaprio, Wikiquote
Tagged: Encouraging, Hollywood Star, Happiness Quotes, motivation
“To love yourself should be no quiet affair, but a loud uprising.”
— Nikita Gill, Your Heart Is The Sea
Tagged: YHITS, Encouraging, Self-Love, Loving Yourself, Mottos
“You're scared. But maybe we're stronger than we think we are. ”
— Offred, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 3: Watch Out
Tagged: strength, Women, empowerment, Encouraging
“You are allowed to take up space. Own who you are and what you want for yourself. Stop downplaying the things you care about, the hopes you have. Own your passions, your thoughts, your perceptions. Own your fire. Stop putting your worth in the hands of others; stop letting them decide your value. Own saying no, saying yes. Own your mood, your feelings. Own your plans, your path, your success.”
— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars
Tagged: Inspirational, Take Up Space, Matras, Mantra, Encouraging, Inspiring
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Tagged: Be Honest With Yourselves, Encouraging, Self-Worth, Inspirational, life advice
“If it’s darkness we’re having,
let it be extravagant.”
— Jane Kenyon, Collected Poems, Jane Kenyon
Tagged: Positive Thinking, Encouraging
“I'm too young to waste my time being sad over you anymore.”
— Faraway, I Won't Waste My Time Over You
Tagged: Breakups, Encouraging, empowerment
“Remember that the stars and planets did not die for you to waste your time wondering if you are pretty enough or worthy enough to exist.”
— Nikita Gill, Your Heart Is The Sea
Tagged: YHITS, Encouraging
“How they make you feel says a lot about them and nothing about you. Trust me when I say someone who makes you question if you are worthy of being loved is not worthy of being loved by you.”
— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, You Are Worthy, Encouraging, Cute
“Life is a flicker of light and then we’re a long time dead, and possibly, in a thousand years, forgotten altogether. The miracle of being here at all is far too precious to waste on worry, I know, especially when the possible nightmares that are keeping me awake are utterly out of my control to prevent.”
— Kitty O'Meara, Light Wins by Shining
Tagged: Miracle, Life, Encouraging
“Keep trying. Not for others, but for yourself. You have no one to impress.”
— Jacqueline Whitney, Keep Trying
Tagged: Encouraging, Calm Catalog
“Don’t give up. Don’t give up on your story. Don’t give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It’s all worth fighting for.
”
— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Worth The Fight, Keep Fighting for Love, Love Wins, Your Story Matters, Live Inspired, Encouraging, Calm Catalog
“You are made of beautiful, incredible, impossible things and your trauma does not get to trick you into believing that it is the only thing about you that matters.”
— Nikita Gill, Your Heart Is The Sea
Tagged: YHITS, Encouraging, Self-Love, Calm Catalog
“From time to time, trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.”
— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars
Tagged: Recovery, Healing, Survival, Encouraging, Selfie Captions, Scars, Calm Catalog
“Do not mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything yourself.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Self-Worth, Don't Listen To Negativity, Encouraging, Calm Catalog
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury, A quote by Ray Bradbury
Tagged: Taking Risks, Encouraging
“The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”
— Mandy Hale, via Amazon
Tagged: Lover, Soul Mate, Right Person, Person, Love, Encouraging Words
“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Connection to something, Encouraging
“You’re just raw, and yourself, and beautiful. You don’t need anything from anyone, unless it’s the kind of love that chooses you first, always.”
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
Tagged: Choose Yourself, You Are Beautiful, Encouraging
“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe in my head.”
— Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono’s New Music and New Writings: It’s Her Universe, and Welcome to It!
Tagged: Inspirational, imaginative, Creative, Encouraging, Yoko Ono Quotes
“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
— Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Tagged: Encouraging, Courage, Strength And Courage
“Those feelings are fluid and temporary! You must protect that small deep secret part of you that needs to live. There are people out there that care. Reach out!”
— Joanne M., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“The only thing you should expect from money is a better hotel room.”
— Brandon Steiner, How Brandon Steiner Bought Yankee Stadium(And His 33 Rules For Success)
Tagged: Sales, Encouraging Quotes, Encouraging, Sunday Quotes, Sunday, Inspirational
“I pray you quit overthinking, replaying failed scenarios, feeding self-doubt and seeing the good in everyone but yourself. You deserve more.”
— Jodi Sta.Maria, What you need to hear today
Tagged: Inspirational, Hearted, Encouraging
“It is when you are at your weakest, that you are your totally real, pure, truest self. Completely vulnerable, you have the opportunity to be completely honest, with yourself, and with reality. If you have ended up receptive to the idea of all things ending, then you can be receptive to a new and completely different idea, hope and possibility.”
— George H., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem and you don't have to go through it alone.”
— Robert J., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“Hold on! It's so hard! But as survivor, it does get better with help!”
— Lacy E., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“Don't do it. Wait until the morning. It always looks better in the daylight.”
— Dan W., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“I understand you're going through a rough time. It has probably messed up your brain chemistry. Things are going to change, they always do. But, let's get you checked out and make sure you're getting everything you need. Then, we can work on your problem.”
— Shelia H., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“There is hope.”
— Linda R., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“The first 90 seconds of your day determine the other 23 hours and 57.5 minutes of your day.”
— Brandon Steiner, How Brandon Steiner Bought Yankee Stadium(And His 33 Rules For Success)
Tagged: Sales, Encouraging Quotes, Encouraging, Sunday Quotes, Sunday, Inspirational
“It’s risky not to take risks.”
— Brandon Steiner, How Brandon Steiner Bought Yankee Stadium(And His 33 Rules For Success)
Tagged: Sales, Encouraging Quotes, Encouraging, Sunday Quotes, Sunday, Inspirational
“please know, you are more than your trauma, and the circumstances surrounding it.”
— Joel L. Daniels
Tagged: Trauma, you are stronger than you think, Never Give Up, Empowering, Encouraging, Life
“It's a bad day, not a bad life. You will get through this. I'm here to help you do just that. I love you.”
— Brandi L., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“It gets so much better than this! So much better! I have been exactly where you are more than once. This pain and this hell on earth will not last forever. I will walk with you through this. I will hold your hand. Just don't you EVER give up! I came through this and I'm going to see you through it. You are not alone.”
— Candy H., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery
“Fight with all you have. Tomorrow is always a better day.”
— Rita L., What Would You Say To Someone Who's Having Suicidal Thoughts?
Tagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love, Depression, Loving Someone Who's Battling Depression, Encouraging Words, Recovery