Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future. — Florence Littauer
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France
Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe. — Jeremy Riddle
A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water. — Rudolf Dreikurs
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct. — Dale Carnegie
Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it. — Jill Briscoe
How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing! — S. Truett Cathy
Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive. — Zig Ziglar
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. — George Burton Adams
I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply. — Lysa TerKeurst
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. — Dale Carnegie
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves. — Orson Welles
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
Short Encouragement Quotes
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. — Smith Wigglesworth
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone. — George Bernard Shaw
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies. — Paulo Coelho
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. — Mia Hamm
Encouragement Image Quotes
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C. S. Lewis
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck
No matter your obstacles, live a happy life. — Sam Berns
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray
Always desire to learn something useful — Sophocles
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life. — Hafez
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself. — Sherry Argov
No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. — Marilyn Monroe
Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go.
Self Encouragement Quotes
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do. — Sally Mann
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron
Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
One of the more distasteful aspects of positive thinking – and of conventional approaches to happiness in general – is the way in which they seem to encourage self-absorption. — Oliver Burkeman
Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self. — Sathya Sai Baba
Christian Encouragement Quotes
Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming. — Joyce Meyer
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side. — Philip Yancey
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God. — Reuben Morgan
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement. — Billy Graham
I encourage and empower each of you to really stand in your truth, to stand for what is right — to continue to respect each other. — Meghan Markle
Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think. — Kevin DeYoung
Encouragement is the fuel by which hope runs.
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Your message has the ability to change someone’s life. — Russell Brunson
Spiritual Encouragement Quotes
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. — Sai Baba
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Lucretius
Encourage the heart, empower the person.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. — Haruki Murakami
At the center of all achievement is personal growth. — Isaac Mashman
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal. — Lissa Rankin
Life Encouragement Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Be An Encourager. The World Has Plenty Of Critics Already.
There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up. — John Cena
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. — Rabindranath Tagore
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale
Courage will open the doors that fear has slammed shut.
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley
Words Of Encouragement Quotes
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. — John Lennon
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
May today build your faith in the promise of a better tomorrow.
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. — Krystal
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part. — Tom Petty
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. — Abraham Lincoln
Never look at the trombones; it only encourages them.
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them. — Arthur C. Clarke
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him — Frances Ridley Havergal
Need Encouragement Quotes
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away. — Adrian Rogers
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. — Leo Buscaglia
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
Surround yourself with encouragement.
A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah. — Bilal Philips
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. — Voltaire
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. — Arsene Wenger
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. — Bertolt Brecht
Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows? — Joel Osteen
How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. — S. Truett Cathy
Support And Encouragement Quotes
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration. — Nayib Bukele
There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences. — Sally Ride
It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it. — W Mitchell
Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on. — RuPaul
We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education. — Joe Hockey
She [my wife] has supported me and enabled me to achieve what I’ve achieved so far. — Micky Watkins
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves — Daniel J. Siegel
Encouragement For Friends Quotes
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. — Donna Rice Hughes
Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles. — Wilma Mankiller
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. — Sally Ride
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. — Bernard Baruch
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged. — Kelly McGonigal
Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump
Encouragement For Women Quotes
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. — Larry Craig
I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families. — Angela Ahrendts
Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world — Annie Laurie Gaylor
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board. — J. B. Priestley
Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. — Amelia Earhart
We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health. — Sheryl Crow
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society. — Bill O'Reilly
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation. — Amber Riley
I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself. — Beyonce Knowles
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led to the main character, Lilly Haswell, who finds herself doing the work of an apothecary at a time when it was illegal for women to do so. — Julie Klassen
Be Encouraged Quotes
I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. — Jack Welch
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done. — Ratan Tata
Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged — Kai Greene
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. — Saint Peter
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other. — Laverne Cox
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. — Napoleon Hill
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. Love me and I may be forced to love you. — William Arthur Ward
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick
Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. — Gary Allan
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. — Hugh B. Brown
The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness — Mandisa
Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths — Brian Weiss
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. — George Matthew Adams
Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not. — Kris Carr
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside. — Joel Osteen
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. — Byron Katie
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them. — Therese of Lisieux
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy. — Witness Lee
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump
You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts. — Joel Osteen
Friend Encourage Quotes
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. — Dale Carnegie
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs. — Tyler Oakley
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. — Abraham Lincoln
The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values. — Chico Xavier
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts. — Elias Hicks
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. — Paulo Coelho
Encouraging Others Quotes
Great leaders encourage and enable others to become great. — Susan McCann
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. — Joyce Meyer
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. — Jim Rohn
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. — Walter Bagehot
The example could encourage others who only fear to start. — Jose Rizal
If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf. — Nicky Gumbel
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams
Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. — Emma Bonino
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be. — Folorunsho Alakija
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. — Ansel Adams
Encouraging Uplifting Quotes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. — Whoopi Goldberg
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories. — Jack Canfield
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come. — John Spence
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. — Louis Mann
Chase your passions and surround yourself with people who inspire and uplift you. — Edward Barber
Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer. — Susa Young Gates
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T. D. Jakes
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