Encouragement quotes
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"Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime"
"Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs. Protecting human rights of every man, woman and child is fundamental. Kids cannot protect themselves. It's up to us to ensure they have what they need to be all they can possibly be."
"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
"If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation."
"He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head."
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
"Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel."
"You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old? The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing. What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river."
"It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early."
"You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever."
"I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us."
"It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices"
"We get strength and encouragement from watching children."
"Keep walking the walk, one step at a time."
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
"Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on."
"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
"Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him."
"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."
