Quotes About Encouragement

The Word of God is powerful. It has the ability to calm you down, cheer you up, give you hope, and stir your faith up!

Alistair opened his eyes. My dear, I haven't exerted myself in years. Then it's way past time to start, old man. - Reagan

You have a solid team behind you. So reach out. He smiled. Just don't reach out and push me into a freezing river next time.

It's funny how when you try to help somebody else feel better you wind up feeling better yourself.

Turn your face to me Turn your gaze and see All the pain surrounding you Every song you hear With a heart sincere Brings a chance for you to do Something more Than Be Alone Something more Than Be Unknown Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.

Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.

In studying "master questioners," Hal Gregersen inquired about their childhoods and found that most had "at least one adult in their lives who encouraged them to ask provocative questions." The Nobel laureate scientist Isidor Isaac Rabi was one such child; when he came home from school, "while other mothers asked their kids 'Did you learn anything today?' [my mother ] would say, 'Izzy, did you ask a good question today?

Although girls express their feelings more easily, what they receive most often from girlfriends and mom is reassurance. Unlike boys, who are frequently challenged by their friends, girls are less likely to have anyone besides their dad to go to with the anticipation of being challenged by someone who has her best interest at heart.

Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities.

Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for, they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap, and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon.

If, however, I can by any lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow, if I can now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.

Psalm 42:11 (NIV): "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him.

A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.''3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker's dozen. One thing.

How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?

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He looks up at me with watery eyes and asks, "How can you, of all people, say everything will be all right?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?

Come on. I'll race you." Before I can respond, she takes off toward the boardwalk. I can't believe she managed to make me feel better. I watch her run, her ponytail bobbing behind her. I know with my freakishly long legs I could easily overtake her, even with her head start. But I don't. Because that's what best friends do for each other.

Max clapped his hands. "Go, go, go!

This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

The slug will always tell the caterpillar that it can't fly.

Not everyone may like what you do but you are the reason someone finds happiness in life so don't stop.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that!