Encouragement Quotes - Page 4

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

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.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.