Quotes About Encouragement

If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think?

un sourire ou un mot gentil, cette personne le recevait comme un rayon de soleil et, ne serait-ce qu'un instant, voyait sa vie illuminée d'espoir, de bonheur et d'optimisme.

I always liked to meet Myra, said Miss Cornelia. She was always so gay and cheerful—she made you feel better just by her handshake. Myra always made the best of things.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to help inspire the next generation

Pa took her hand and comforted it in his big one. He said, "We must do the best we can, Laura, and not grumble. What must be done is best done cheerfully.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

You don't need cheering up. You need a good shaking.

Only a sister could be thoroughly unimpressed with your public accomplishments and accolades but would screech in joy and support when you finally learned how to parallel park or make it through a cavity filling without fainting.

there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands.'" Bea was much struck by this. "How lovely

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

I know how bad you feel. Trapped, she says. It gets better, I promise. So much better.

Melinda, Mr. Freeman says. Snow filters into the car and melts on the dashboard. You're a good kid. I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it. I close the door.

To these internal pressures we are gracefully adding by direct encouragement, the rigour of a nationalism based in a fanatical religion. I personally admire it, but never forget that it is a fighting religion with no metaphysics, only an ethic.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

A girl should have two things: a smile, and a guy who inspires it.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

You were created to make somebody else's life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.