Encouraging Words

Everyone needs encouraging words from time to time.

So, here’s a nifty collection just for you.

Read them, sing them, or paste them on your forehead.

Then gather up your courage and…

Shine on! 

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

~Richard Bach

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

~ Aristotle

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

~ Agatha Christie

A year from now you’ll wish you started today.

~ Karen Lamb

If your ship hasn't come in – swim out to it.

~ Mary Engelbreit

Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.

~ Mark Twain

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

~ Henry David Thoreau 

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams.

If you don't, who will?

~ Jon Bon Jovi

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to

be much use being anything else.

~ Winston Churchill

PROMPT:  You fail only if you stop writing. ~ Ray Bradbury