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Quotes About Encouragement

to talk like that, like there's no hope, I don't know, that just seems wrong to me. I don't think anyone has the right to tell people there's no hope. You can't just get up and tell people there's no hope! And it doesn't make sense. He thinks you can take away people's hope and then expect them to—what did he say?—love and take care of each other?
~ Sigrid Nunez
He kept telling James and me how proud he was of us. I reminded Dad how he had spotted the advert in the newspaper that kick-started my little journey. I made sure he knew that without his encouragement I would probably never have made anything of my life. I knew and I know he always loved me.
~ Simon Reeve
An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
I know, but the poor souls – Well, I'm sure you will agree with me in one thing: The chief task of a librarian is to get people to read." "You feel so? My feeling, Mrs. Kennicott, and I am merely quoting the librarian of a very large college, is that he first duty of the conscientious librarian is to preserve the books.
~ Sinclair Lewis
E posibil s? nu fii tu însuÈ›i o surs? de lumin?, dar eÈ™ti, cu siguran??, un conduc?tor al ei. Unii oameni, neavând geniu, au totuÈ™i puterea v?dit? de a-l stimula.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Dolye
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions double valour at the hour of need; ``and to the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I know friends should be supportive of each other's life decisions and all that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Top tip to all teachers reading this (i.e., none, probably): try not showing off the girl who cringes when anyone even looks at her. Because it's not that helpful. Also, it's not that helpful to say in the whole class's earshot: "She's the great hope of this year group, so talented.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
~ George Eliot
Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
~ Guy Kawasaki
I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.
~ Jackson Harris
You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you. And so I don't know. I know there is condemnation, but I don't feel that's my place.
~ Joel Osteen
Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
~ Joel Osteen
So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
~ Joel Osteen
I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.
~ Joel Osteen
I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.
~ Joel Osteen
I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
~ Joel Osteen
We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.
~ Joel Osteen