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Top 70 motivational quotes for people dealing with depression
Here are some motivational quotes that will help people who are in depression to inspire and provide courage for such persons.
- “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”— John Wooden
- “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”— Isaac Asimov
- “Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”— James R. Cook
- “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire
- “If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.” ― Abraham H. Maslow
- “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”— Stephan Hoeller
- “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”—Unknown
- “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”— Lao Tzu
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”— Helen Keller
- “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”— Albert Camus
- “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ― Thomas Edison
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ― Dolly Parton
- “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”— Richard L. Evans
- “Happiness does not depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely upon what you think.” ― Dale Carnegie
- “If you’re going through Hell, keep going.”— Winston Churchill
- “Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.”— Brian Tracey
- “You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.” ― Khalil Gibran
- “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” ― Susan Sontag
- “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.” ― Dr. David M. Burns
- “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there isany virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” ― Bible Quote
- “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.”— Saint Francis de Sales
- “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”— Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats
- “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”— Napoleon Hill
- “Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.”— Norman Vincent Peale
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”— Confucius
- “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”— Lance Armstrong
- “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” ― Walt Disney
- “One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys.” ― Dr. Al Lorin
- “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” — Matt Lucas
- “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”— St. Francis of Assisi
- “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.”— Henry Ford
- “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”—Winston Churchill
- “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ― Agatha Christie
- “Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.” ― Philip Larkin
- “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? .” ― Robert Schuller
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”— Helen Keller
- “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”— Chinese Proverb
- “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Our love will blend together like turquoise is blue and green. There’s no depression or envy when both blur into one.” ― Jarod Kintz
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”— Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”— Leo Buscaglia
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”—Nelson Mandela
- “Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.”— Unknown
- “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”— E. Joseph Cossman
- “I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.” ― Christopher Hitchens
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”— Mark Twain
- “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” ― Joyce Meyer
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”— Japanese proverb
- “Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”— Dorothy Rowe
- “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind.”— William James
- “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”— Thomas Edison
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”— Wayne Gretzky
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”— Elisabeth Kübler- Ross
- “He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”— Morris Mandel
- “Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”— George S. Patton
- “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now – and do it.”— William Durant
- “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” ― Charlotte Brontë
- “Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.” ― William Shakespeare
- “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think.”— Dr. Patrick Gentempo
- “Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.” ― Helen Reddy
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.”— Unknown
- “Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”— Thoreau
- “The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.” ― Neale Donald Walsch
- “Change your thoughts and you change the world.” ― Norman Peale
