Quotes About Encouragement

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Each of us has a spark of life in us, & our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me.

I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I have one note on the mirror in the middle that says, "Look at the other notes.

I heard him only encourage my brother to date Mexican girls. They would be so grateful to go out with a gringo.

When I was ten, I told her about my plans to play football. Most mothers would try to talk their son out of such a notion, but Mom encouraged me.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

The first doctor understood the situation and sent the patient to the second. Here she drew her own conclusions from her dream, and decided to leave. My interpretation of her third dream disappointed her greatly, but she was distinctly encouraged to go on in spite of all difficulties by the fact that it reported the frontier already crossed.

In the car, Dad said solemnly, "Willie, you should understand that I'm doing this because I want you to be a success in life." "Driving me to school, Dad?

The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I imagine this is how it must be with our ancestors. They watch us closely, full of love and concern, sometimes whispering encouragement through a crack, but mostly just satisfied to know that we are happy.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

I have never met a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - President James A. Garfield

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland

Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision

Frequently, the most encouraging option comes out of love and choosing to believe that a benign universe will respond to our attitude of faith.

you don't have to tear down others to build yourself up

While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally not been encouraged, a revolutionary suggestion was recently made by the Czech physicist Raji Heyrovska, who deduced that the fine structure constant, ...really is defined by the [golden] ratio ....

Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk—or why.

I've got news for you, Mia. There's going to be all kinds of terrible in there, so you won't really stand out," Mom said.

Because even though she might not know it, she just díd what I told her she could do.