Quotes about Encouragement

Hope is a better friend than despair.

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

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous 'Pennsylvania optimism' I've heard so much about...

He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

I've often found it a great help to think in the evening of all those who I know are praying for me, children as well as grown-ups. I think I owe it to the prayers of others, both known and unknown, that I have often been kept in safety.

But God has put this Word into the mouth of men in order that it may be communicated to other men. When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek him and find his living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of a man. Therefore, a Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged.