Quotes about Encouragement

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing — there's nothing to be done for such people.

Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose.

Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,' and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime — repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."*

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their self-esteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.