Quotes About Encouragement

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need—and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even—yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, venture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary.

In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.

We need only to sharpen up the implements. I can see you giving birth to books in rapid succession. I believe in you enormously—I was genuinely stirred—also exasperated.

From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered.

I recently came across a saying by the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren. "Be kind," he wrote, "for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind.

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs

Bring back all who are discouraged, because they cannot find aught to bring Thee in prayer. O give them to understand that they have only to come with their emptiness to Him who has all to give, and delights to do it. Not, what they have to bring the Father, but what the Father waits to give them, be their one thought.

This is throughout scripture the great central promise: I am with you.

Women must be careful what we say to one another. We are almost all we have.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek

the whole reason for John's Revelation is to encourage the churches strewn around the rim of the Mediterranean to lift up their eyes from the imperial power of Rome and every earthly Babylon. John is commissioned to bring these churches a vision of ultimate reality, in all its glory and justice, so that they can live faithfully, candles set in lampstands in a dimly lit world.

Great idea!' I say. 'Let's load

Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

Remember: Pants=Love. Love your pals. Love yourself.

Say things you'd like to hear if you were in the audience. Make the audience feel good. Flatter them." "Flatter them." "Just use good sense." "Claudia?" "Yeah?" "I think maybe I was born without good sense.

But nobody cheered louder than me.

Please get better, Danielle.

There does not seem to be anything within the principles of Islam by which to resist the slide into sharia (Islamic law), while there is everything to encourage it. This is a terrible truth that we have to face:

False encouragement is a kind of theft: It steals time, energy, and motivation that a person could put toward some other purpose.