Quotes about Encouragement

We need to build and strengthen one another. We must never lose sight of the fact that we are to "succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees." (D&C 81:5)

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.

If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison.

A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

It's not okay to be critical of yourself.

It's one thing to stop speaking negative, debilitating words over yourself, but you've got to take it a step further by replacing those words with positive declarations over yourself and your future.

For Thérèse, poetry was not "art for amusement," because she did not write for her own satisfaction but out of duty, or at least with a concern to serve, to help, and to encourage.6

Sometimes God comforts us directly, but that's not His only strategy. Normally He comforts us through His people—so if our lives aren't open to one another, they're closed to the Father's comfort. Let's share our lives; let's fellowship in suffering so that we can fellowship in His mercy.