Quotes About Encouragement

Greater are those who are with us than those who are against us.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

If I saw you hitchhiking, I'd smile and return your thumb's up, just for you doing such a great job of being a positive roadside influence.

These might include the ability to form close and trusting bonds, to reach out, to initiate, to achieve, to belong to a group, to develop self-confidence, to receive help and encouragement, even to have a happy childhood.

took time from their demanding lives to offer encouragement and ideas. Ann Hulbert has been an especially steadfast friend.

Don't be impressed by the fact that a guy doesn't pressure you. He doesn't get any points for that. It's his duty as a gentleman. Besides, he should be encouraging you to be pure, not waiting for you to give in.

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

seemed so epic. But I mentioned the challenges to Adrian's mother and she gave me some good advice. She said I shouldn't try to write a book, I should just sit down at my laptop and tell the story, one sentence at a time, using the same language I'd use to tell a friend over coffee. She said it was okay not to sound like J. K. Rowling. It was fine if I sounded like Mallory Quinn from Philadelphia.

Sensations are unstable things, they become transformed in memory, they shift and dance, they can prevail over what was said and heard, over rejection or acceptance. Sometimes, sensations can make us give up and, at others, encourage us to try again.

And it is the bullwhip of negative judgment—from ourselves or others—that produces much of our anxiety around feedback. Surprisingly, reassurance—"You can do this" and "I believe in you"—also falls into the category of additional judgments, but on the positive side.

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

of peace and bestows the encouragement you need. He raises your morale and fills you with strength. He says to you: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27).

But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that.

Emotional suffering needs spiritual encouragement.

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold." -- Edith Stein

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

The rapid firing of the 105s pounding the hill up ahead encouraged him. Maybe this won't be so bad, he reasoned. No one could survive that pounding.

He hated happy families with their mutual encouragement, and their demonstrative affection, and the impression they gave of valuing each other more than other people.

This is good news: you don't have to know the exact cause of suffering in order to find hope and comfort.

In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said, the LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. —Judges 6:12