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Quotes About Encouragement

Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid's I've ever coached. Don't you ever forget that.
~ Robert Dugoni
There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)
~ Robert Frost
Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Phineas gave Abigail an encouraging smile. "Chillax, dudette. He didn't want to bite you." She wondered if she'd overreacted. "He didn't?" "Naw." Phineas smirked. "He just wanted to jump your bones.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Change Tactic: Bad habits are almost always a social disease—if those around us model and encourage them, we'll almost always fall prey. Turn "accomplices" into "friends" and you can be two-thirds more likely to succeed.
~ Kerry Patterson
You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.
~ Kevin Smith
I'm no damn good at this," she says slowly, almost shyly, "but what I'm getting around to telling you is, you've turned out good. You've made me proud, Markos.
~ Khaled Hosseini
pero lo que trato de decirte es que me has salido bueno. Has hecho que me sienta orgullosa de ti, Markos.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Bravo, Amir. You're a good son.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Yes," I said. "I'd miss you, a lot, and you know that. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want." I broke off. "No, Markos," Thalia said heavily. "No I couldn't.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Come on, Rachel! Jenks shrilled. ou're a badass, not a bad witch!
~ Kim Harrison
I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.
~ Kim Harrison
Thanks, Mom," I whispered. And with the knowledge that my mom believed in me even if the rest of the world didn't, I headed for the door.
~ Kim Harrison
we all began female, and always had both sexual hormones in us. We always had masculine and feminine behavioral traits, which we had to train into gender-appropriate behaviors, even though they were traits that everyone has. We selectively encouraged or repressed traits, so for most of our history we have reinforced gender. But in our deepest selves we were always both.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Matthew 9:22 (NLT): "Jesus turned around, and when he saw her he said, 'Daughter, be encouraged!
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else.
~ Kobi Yamada
Believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else.
~ Kobi Yamada
and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.
~ Koji Suzuki
Excellence is praised." "Praise inspires excellence.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
When depressed, go and find someone to salute you.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
Do not despair whatever happens for behind the clouds is always the rainbow.
~ L. Frank Baum
Nonsense! said the Emperor—but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.
~ L. Frank Baum
Courage, friends! Do not despair, for soon you will be free.
~ L. Frank Baum
Don't try, my dear
~ L. Frank Baum