Encouragement Quotes
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Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.
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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.
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Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.
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Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one
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If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.
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If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
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The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.
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The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.
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Laughter is the music of life.
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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.
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Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
