Encouragement Quotes

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

~ Confucius

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

~ Charles Dickens

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

~ Scott Hahn

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

~ Roger Crawford

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

~ Scott Hahn

So Encourage Each Other and Build Each Other Up-Positive Connections.

~ Anonymous

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.

~ John Scalzi

When I see you’re hurting, I want to wipe it away. When I see you doubting yourself, I want to give you the best damned pep talk in history. When you cry, I want to make you smile. When you laugh, I want to make you laugh harder. When you moan in my arms, I want to make you dissolve into a puddle. When you’re insecure about how I feel about you, I want to replace that with a proclamation that I love you so hard that I never want you to question us again.

~ Tijan

Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can survive any shock.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we seek for the best times to act, we may missed some opportunities. We must seize every moment and make it great.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your breakthrough is on the way. Don't be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God.

~ Germany Kent

One negative thought is the first step to failure.

~ Victoria Barnes

I am strong... Extra-ordinarily so much more than you guys! Therefore, I am perfectly capable of kicking those titan scumbags' collective ass including on my own if I have to. Are you all such a bunch incompetents? You gutless spineless cowards. You just stay there and watch in helpless envy. Yeah, you do that. If it is (impossible), then I'll die... It's just that simple. But if I win, I get to live. You don't stand a single chance to win unless you fight.

~ Hajime Isayama

Do not take to heart any ill-action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dismiss any doubt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Use the water of encouragement on someone else's flowers - especially the flowers that are wilted, trampled on, and taken for granted. But don't nourish the weeds.

~ Hannah Garrison

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.

~ Nicola Yoon

Everyone encounters trials and tribulations, No choices, so face it! Live with it! Fight for it!

~ Aireen C. Pontillo

Good boy can be canceled out the next day by bad boy. You're a smart girl by What a stupid thing to do! Careful by Careless . . . and so on.But you can't take away the time he shoveled the whole walkway even though his arms were tired and his toes were frozen. Or the time he made the baby laugh with his goofy faces when the babysitter couldn't get her to stop crying, or found his mom's reading glasses, or figured out how to make the alarm on the cell phone stop going off when no one else could do it. These are the things he can draw upon to give himself confidence in the face of adversity and discouragement. In the past he did something he was proud of, and he has, within himself, the power to do it again.

~ Julie Adair King

When kids are unhappy, we don’t have to prop them up with frantic praise. It’s more helpful to say, Ugh, you are not happy with the way that bicycle came out. It doesn't look like what you see in your head. It's not easy to draw a bike. It's hard to put something from real life onto a flat piece of paper and get it to look right.

~ Julie Adair King

Instead of, Excellent work. Try, I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B.Instead of, Good job following directions.Try, You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.

~ Julie Adair King

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

~ Rebecca Vandemark

when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.

~ Mindy Kaling

The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

~ Anne Graham Lotz

You have a say. You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.

~ Janna Cachola

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

~ Zig Ziglar

Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion.

~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Dwelling on a disappointing situation is like walking through drying cement; eventually you will get stuck. Instead make a mental note, picked yourself up and continued living life. #forward

~ Carlos Wallace

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

~ John Smith

It is GOOD to cherish your yesterdays; It is BETTER to dream your tomorrows; but it is BEST to live your today's! Remember to hold fast to your dreams, for if your dreams die, then your life is like a bird with broken wings that cannot fly.

~ Donald Pillai

It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

~ Drexel Deal

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Get Fired Up About Your Life Because If You Don't Who Will?

~ Coach Dave

It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If you're struggling uphill; carrying your heavy load; fighting to stay afloat or battling your demons, know that you are definitely on the right path, and ascending to the place where you will one day embody the legend you seek to become.

~ Seon Stronghold

So many people who hear of my adventure tell me they wish they could do what I'm doing. They admire me and think I have courage. They wish they could do something equally as daring in their own life. I think they give me too much credit. I'm living out the consequences of my decisions, that's all. My priorities powered this adventure. The same propellant rests inside each of them.

~ Alexis Hartz

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

~ William Kent Krueger

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

~ Max Lucado