41 Quotes About Encouragement

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure. It just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.

Alleged impossibilities are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships and trials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

If there be, therefore, perpetual failure in your life, it cannot arise from any weakness or impotence in the Mighty God; but from some failure on your part. That failure may probably be discovered in one of three hiding places--imperfect surrender, deficient faith; or neglected communion. But when the intention of the soul is right with God, without doubt He will save.

It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.

When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.

We are invincible in Christ!

He will never ever fail us.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Let this encourage those of you who belong to Christ: the storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. The clouds that are temporarily rolling over your head will pass, and then you will have fair weather, an eternal sunshine of glory. Can you not watch with Christ for one hour?

We must dig deep and encourage ourselves in the Lord.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness - my life was without past or future - but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.

Open your heart to sympathy, but close it against despondency. The flower which opens to receive the dew shuts against the rain.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.