108 Inspirational Quotes on Counseling & Personal Growth

"Healing takes time and asking for help is a courageous step."

- Mariska Hargitay

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty."

- Ali Washington

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J. K. Rowling

"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."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

- Carl Rogers

"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

- Audre Lorde

"Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what's left of you."

- Katie Reed

"You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people."

- Alexandra Elle

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."

- John Green

"you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal"

- Rupi Kaur

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Recovery is full of ups and downs. There is no such thing as a linear life."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Mental health is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going."

- Noam Spencer

"You are not broken, you are breaking through."

- Alex Myles

"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all."

- Bill Clinton

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others."

- Erik H. Erikson

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Understanding why people suffer, how they change, and how to help them live more satisfying and gratifying lives is a fascinating, huge, and important undertaking."

- Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan

"We know from experience and the growing body of supportive literature […] that the therapeutic relationship a counselor forms with each client can be the most powerful tool for helping clients change."

- Jeff Cochran and Nancy Cochran

"There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet."

- Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."

- Frank Warren

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

- Stephen King

"It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need."

- Amy Poehler

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

- Maya Angelou

"Do not give your past the power to define your future."

- Dhiren Prajapati

"Don't be ashamed of your story. It will inspire others."

- J M Skinner

"You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire."

- Mama Indigo

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

- Carl Jung

"Deep breathing is our nervous system's love language."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."

- Astrid Alauda

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness."

- Cara Delevingne

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"Promise me you'll always remember — you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The simple act of caring is heroic."

- Edward Albert

"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

- Karl A. Menniger

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Counseling involves helping people facilitate uncomplicated, or normal, grief to a healthy adaptation to the tasks of mourning within a reasonable time frame."

- J. William Worden

"This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

- Victor Hugo

"In a time of destruction, create something."

- Maxine Hong Kingston

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

- Tom Bodett

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety."

- Deepak Chopra

"People will forget what you say, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you make them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one."

- Grandmother Willow

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"

- Henry David Thoreau

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Your time is limited; don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Far and away, the best prize life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"

- Tony DeLiso

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars"

- Cecelia Ahern

"Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they're destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution."

- Albert Einstein

"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."

- Lemony Snicket

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

"One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

- Albert Einstein

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."