Encouragement Quotes

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.

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.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

There's a genius in all of us.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

All say, "˜how hard it is that we have to die' — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.