Encouragement Quotes

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

~ Tim Fargo

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.

~ Germany Kent

God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the light of love, I find the glory of God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest patient is to wait for God to act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a great assurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

~ Criss Jami

She smiled thoughtfully. “I think Jackson was like a lost puppy. He needed purpose, someone to believe in him and love him despite his bullshit. But he didn’t have that, so he just went around humping everyone’s leg and peeing everywhere. Then you came along and he thought he found that owner that would give him that purpose—something that would make him feel needed—but you chose the fancy pet store puppy instead, so he went back to peeing on everything and destroying all the furniture.”“Um, Whit...is there a point to this?”“We all need someone to believe in us. It helps us see our full potential. You were that someone to believe in him. I think he’ll be a new man because of it.” “So you’re saying I rescued a lost puppy, and now he’ll become a topnotch show dog because I’m just so amazing?”“Exactly.”“You have such an eloquent way with words.”“No shit, right?”“Precisely.”-Emma and Whitney

~ Rachael Wade

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

~ Ernest Hemingway

When you have the grace speak, declare sacred-utterances.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for.

~ Jane Austen

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.

~ John Milton

Lord, open my ears to receive good counsel, allow my head to accept it and enable my person to carry it out.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

With a hope and a prayer, you can get there.

~ Heather Wolf

When I can’t find my way, I pray to God to show me the way. And then, He creates the right pathways.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God can cure any illness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

~ Richard J. Foster

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

~ Stormie Omartian

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

~ Stormie Omartian

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark.

~ Stormie Omartian

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

~ Stormie Omartian

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

~ Stormie Omartian

The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.

~ Stormie Omartian

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

~ Stormie Omartian

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

~ Stormie Omartian

Praying is not telling God what to do. It’s trusting that God knows what to do.

~ Stormie Omartian

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

~ Stormie Omartian

The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.

~ Stormie Omartian

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

~ Stormie Omartian

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

~ Stormie Omartian

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

~ Stormie Omartian

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You see, God didn't create us to merely survive. He created us to thrive! We were made for abundant life.

~ Dana Arcuri

Tomorrow has not invited you yet, so LIVE for today! Tomorrow is near, yet so far away. Choose this day to smile, laugh, love unconditionally, and be happy within.

~ Stephanie Lahart

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.

~ Mark Twain

90% of learning comes through encouragement.

~ Kevin Thoman

We learn from trials and errors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.

~ Criss Jami