Encouragement Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

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

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

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.

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

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

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.