Quotes About Encouragement

You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.

Coming from a large immigrant family, my parents didn't encourage a lot of 'play' when I was growing up. It was hard to get my Dad to even sit down to watch television with us (he'd watch it standing up, always ready to go do something more productive). Downtime was discouraged, as was any college degree that wasn't law, medicine or business.

For every negative comment you see on social media based upon standing up for something, there's somebody from back home that's telling me, 'Hey, I'm proud of you, man. Continue to do what you're doing.' Of course, you don't do it for that, but sometimes it's tough, man.

The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

There needs to be a dialogue between coaches, fans, players and administrators to promote positivity in the stands.

It's always good to have my dad there to support me. I know he's watching every game when he's at home. But when he's in the stands it's a great feeling.

I played in JV games on Saturday mornings when my mom was the only person in the stands.

That roar of the crowd motivates you. And sometimes when you are in a fight, and the pain is kicking in, you hear the crowd chanting your name, it helps you to push through. Fighting in empty stands is more demanding.

Before I started doing standup, I knew that I had what it takes to develop an act. I went down to clubs with not many people there, and I just worked on it, man. A lot of my friends are comedians, so that part had a lot of encouragement, even though the shows were very caveman-like.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.