Quotes About Encouragement

Never lose faith in your opportunity to lift those who are in need, to give strength to those who are weak, to give encouragement to those who falter by the way.

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

We need to build and strengthen one another. We must never lose sight of the fact that we are to "succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees." (D&C 81:5)

Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity; and I know that praise rightly given, implying real success and assuring us that we have done what we strove to do, is what you say — just vital oxygen.

A chef's two best friends are salt and praise.

I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

There are many ways of doing good, such as little deeds of kindness, little words of encouragement and affection. By these gifts which are not bought with gold or silver, we can make others happy; not only at Christmas, but all year. If we made a practice of giving such gifts every day would be Christmas...

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift.

When our soul has been cast down, has never an invisible voice whispered, "There is lifting up"? Have not gales and breezes of sweet and healing thought been wafted over us, as if an angel had shaken from his wings the odors of paradise?

Hope whispers from every hyacinth-bell...

Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.

Sometimes I just want someone to hug me and say, "I know it's hard. You're going to be okay. Here's a coffee and 5 million dollars."

Genghis Khan always honored his word. Those who surrendered suffered no harm, and he treated them well. In turn, he used this fair treatment as a means of encouraging other cities to surrender.

Ci sono persone che si sentono in imbarazzo di fronte al dolore altrui e temono di dire la cosa sbagliata; a costoro dico che non si sbaglia nell'offrire conforto, mai. Una parola gentile, un abbraccio consolatorio... queste cose sono sempre bene accette.

Do you seek to force hope upon me?" "I do," I said. He bowed a second time. "I accept it.

I try to have reasonable happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair, I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

My conscience commands me to love an enemy and not harm him, to avoid adding new causes for separation; it tells me that I ought to be an example of moderation and mildness for my enemy; perhaps through my actions, I might encourage him to do the same, and then at last may God send us the dear desired peace."8 For

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

A robust man cannot assist a weaker except that weaker is inclined to be helped, or even then the weak guy must grow to be robust of himself; he ought to, via his very own efforts, broaden the power which he admires in another. None however himself can modify his situation.

If you start hanging around with people who don't love and support you, then you'll die.

Everyone around you needs to ultimately become better than you. That's how you lead.