Encouragement 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.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

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.

Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

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.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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.

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.

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

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.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

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.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.