Quotes About Encouragement

The people who love us do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. They release the best in us; they shoulder us through the rough times in life; they stretch us beyond the confines of our own experiences to wider visions, to truer vistas.

One of the nicest gifts we can give the person we're sharing our lives with is the support and time to pursue his/her passion — even if we don't fully understand it.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

You're doing OK. You're always doing OK however bad you think you are doing this is another page of the book. But remember the responsibility you can have, or the power you can have, to make the sun shine a little brighter for the person next to you. Even if you never see them again it will mean the world to them, what you can do.

So rare that we are told that we are doing just great, and good enough. So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you! And I wanted to pass that along. And I hope you feel it, and that you know you're doing ok, 'cause you know. Despite what everyone else is saying, you'll know, and I hope you do!

I'm really proud of you for having come this far every single one of you, wherever you are, you're on your way you are getting there! And don't worry so much! Just that's what we need to stop doing stop worrying so much, and start observing a little bit more.

But it was Aldo's pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to "scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm." Most of the Pine Cone's articles, poems, jokes, editorials, and drawings were Aldo's own. His readers soon realized that the forest animals were as important to him as the trees. His goal was to bring back the "flavor of the wilds.

It is more important to give positive energy to others than to receive it.

Let us become the kind of people who can take pleasure in elevating others, rather than trying to place ourselves in a superior position by lowering others.

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue.

Be a star in someone's dark sky.

Be the light you wish to see in others.

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.

Faith and optimism are cousins.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

In elevating others, you elevate yourself.

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

Molly almost goes out of her way to describe how loving and supportive her parents have always been, emphasizing in particular the fact that, while she was growing up, her mom couldn't have cared less whether Molly ran or didn't run, and if she ran, whether she ran well or poorly, as long as she was happy.

Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to', it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

Where talk exists, so does hope.

Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.