Quotes About Encouragement

Come on, old duck," he coaxed.

this sweet and kind woman how it felt to have lost my baby. "Don't look so sad," she said, touching my cheek. "All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

I want you to know that I think you've saved my life.

T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

Father Diny interrupted to tell Joe a story about the World War II pilot with this slogan on his plane: Non illegitimi carborundum. Biden looked at him quizzically ... he didn't remember much Latin. "Loosely translated," Father Diny continued, "it means: Don't let the bastards get you down.

What's been happening in your life lately? What's the greatest challenge in your life right now? What's the most significant thing happening in your life right now? You sound like you're carrying a heavy load. Is there any way I can help? How can I pray for you?

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

The way to become a great leader is to look for the best in people – seldom criticise – always praise.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry."

1. If you want to encourage someone to do something, make it easy.

Often we can do more to facilitate good behavior by removing some small obstacle than by trying to shove people in a certain direction.

He wrote to tell him not to be scared that he had injured his brain, because he had done the same thing and got better. It was a source of comfort beyond words.

I am here to help her learn, Tansy said, not to keep her from it.

Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone

Our institutions and our expectations, including our churches, are almost entirely configured to encourage, support, reward, and validate the tasks of the first half of life.

At this point, at least in the United States, it appears that our cultural meaning has pretty much shrunk down to this: it is all about winning. Then, once you win, it becomes all about consuming. I can discern no other underlying philosophy in the practical order of American life today. Of itself, such a worldview cannot feed the soul very well or very long, much less provide meaning and encouragement, or engender love or community.

Ordinary people in times of shame and doubt needed an anamchara, or a "soul friend." Soon

The Holy Spirit is always entirely for us, more than we are for ourselves, it seems. She speaks in our favor against the negative voices that judge and condemn us. This gives us all such hope—now we do not have to do life all by ourselves, or even do life perfectly "right.

Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.

If you want to encourage someone to do something, make it easy.