Quotes About Encouragement

Be encouraged, my friend. If you are willing to use your words as an instrument of beauty, He is more than able to supply the power to do so.

Alguien dijo una vez "Un amigo escucha la melodía en mi corazón y me la canta cuando mi memoria falla".

Her mother gave her a piece of warm biscuit and a hug before they left. "Stones don't cry, child. Remember that," was all she said.

And you, Jonah? Is your family behind you on this?" Stella's father hesitated. "Georgia supports me, but she was a mite trembly this morning. I brought Stella, though." He squeezed her shoulders affectionately. "I don't want to just tell her about bravery—I want to show her what it looks like.

We've got to think positive thoughts.

Look at it this way," Mr. Dimming told Connor. "If Melody Brooks can win the first round, then my questions must not be difficult enough! We're all going to rally to win the competition!" Everybody cheered. Except me.

If I had to see my face while I am writing this, I would not write it. When I was a child, I was encouraged to speak from behind a tree as if I were the tree, or speak as if up from out of the ground, or, as a white adult, to speak out from within a white adult—how easy that has made my life is almost invisible to me.

You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.

You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of social change, and even though it's hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love." So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it's more socially acceptable.

You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you." "We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied. "Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. "That means you had the courage to keep trying.

Sometimes one good thing can help your heart..." -Reenie Kelly

was thinking hard about something. He loved her intelligence. He told her that she was wasted in teaching, that she should be out there doing something for herself.

am a child of God. I am loved. I have a future. God is for me.

Don't waste your time with life diminishing people, seek the company of life enhancing people.

She pushes you because she wants you to be the best." "The best at what? Matricide?

So, taking a page from the Alla Baranova-MacRyrie handbook of motivational techniques, Lock said, "Hey, I totally understand if you can't do this.

I like her." Because she makes you shine.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.