Quotes About Encouragement

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And consequently, the greatest thing we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.

In fact, from the time you were very little, you've had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving.

When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".

There's mystery in raising children: As our children grow and develop their unique talents, we can't control every aspect of their lives. For example, we can offer children music lessons and do all we can to encourage them to appreciate music, but if making music isn't their way of expressing themselves, we have to trust they'll find their own ways.

I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

We are the human family, together we are ONE. We're here to lift one another up, not tear each other down.

We write to free ourselves and help others.

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.

Remember to smile.

For the men chatting together softly, the change was in being shown sunlight again. In being reminded that the darkness DID pass. But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren't alone — but in FEELING it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there WERE others who understood.

You need someone to talk to, Noril, when the darkness is strong. Someone to remind you the world hasn't always been this way; that it won't always be this way.

I'm not strong enough," Kaladin whispered. "You're strong enough for me." "I'm not good enough." "You're good enough for me." "I wasn't there." Tien smiled. "You are here for me, Kal. You're here for all of us.

With a few tips, he wasn't so boring after all. Secretly, I'll tell you that you aren't either. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to lower your value. Don't trust them. They know they can't afford you otherwise.

That's where we belong, not in those caverns. The kids who make fun of you, they're trapped on this rock. Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld.