Quotes About Encouragement

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

Encourage experimentation. People always have ideas that they have been wishing they had the chance to try, and they naturally generate solutions to problems they've been living with. What they seldom do, without encouragement and support, is try their ideas. Too often experimentation seems to people a risky undertaking that requires someone else's blessing. Give it yours.

empowering thoughts

So that it is not the love of any present sin in thy heart, but the fear of thy past sins in thy conscience, that keeps thee from believing. Now for thee it is that I would gather the best encour agements I can out of the word, and with them strew thy way to the throne of grace.

Faith tells the soul what Christ hath done for it, and so comforts it. Hope revives the soul with news of what Christ will do. Both draw at one tap—Christ and his promise.

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

I won't try to argue you out of this pit you've climbed into, Cork.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

I believe in you. That's stronger than coffee.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

Puisses-tu ne jamais oublier que je crois en toi.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.