Encouragement Quotes

Bright light. You've always found your way.

~ Nora Roberts

Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent.

~ Chandan Sharma

Great men must go through great painThe strongest stormsThe hardest rainThe toughest climbsThe roughest terrainGreat men must go through great pain

~ Calvin W. Allison

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

~ Robert Watson

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

~ Joy Davidman

I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

~ Shirley Corder

Encouragement and praISE SHOULD BE ENDLESS. fAUTH BRINGS THEM TOGETHER.

~ Terry Alex

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

~ Pat Conroy

Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up.

~ Lacey Sturm

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can’t even imagine at this point?

~ Andy Andrews

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

~ Joanne Harris

You won't ever know, unless you try!

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I will find a way -- or make one.

~ Hannibal

My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it’s possible.I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it.

~ Dan Pearce

Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind... the seeds are light or darkness... they'll break apart or mend... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.

~ Colleen Luntzel

A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same

~ Nonnie Jules

Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create amask of makeup that is intended to “fix” their “imperfections.” They identify so much with this mask they reject their true beauty.Feminine Transitions encourages women to remove their masks and love their true selves, completely.

~ Alyscia Cunningham

My entire life, I’ve never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.

~ Dan Pearce

There are times when we find ourselves pitching downwards, out of control. Yet God is always nearby...

~ Shirley Corder

There can be moments, when the rope we hold to, becomes a strand of thread, where we feel that we are barely hanging on but when the thread feels as though it's about to break; just know that God will never let us fall but rather, He will be there to catch us and when He does, He will carry us away, on wings of love, to a higher plateau, where evil cannot touch us.

~ Diane K. Chamberlain

Are you hurting? Reach beyond yourself for comfort. Beyond the scope of your visual perimeter. Are you sad? Reach beyond yourself for joy. Beyond the limitations of the temporal. Beyond the boundaries of your five physical senses.Reach out to Jesus. Reach out by faith and be made whole.

~ Calvin W. Allison

Anticipating God's blessings is a great way to begin a new week! When we look for the things that could go wrong, we just may find what we had been looking for.

~ Diane K. Chamberlain

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

~ Lacey Sturm

Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.

~ Jamie Mcguire

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

~ Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

~ Wiley Cash

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

~ John Henry Jowett

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

~ Natsuki Takaya

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

~ Patti Digh

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life

~ Jenni Schaefer

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!

~ J.p. Vaswani

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

~ Emily Whitman