Best 2296 quotes in «encouragement quotes» category

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

For me, each of SNSD members is like my own body. If one gets hurts or hears bad things from someone else, it hurts me and pains me even more. And you know, it's impossible for only good things to happen to someone, so there will always be difficult and hurtful times; but during these times, I'm thankful that we're each other's supports and each other's strength. I hope in the future, we'll continue to lean on each other and be strong for each other. Also, when we need encouragement, we'll continue to look for each other too.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

God is never late, but He sure is slow.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

God hates it when we stir up strife, disloyalty, or contention among His people. It may happen in the church, but don’t you be a part of it. Don’t do it. Pray, ask the Lord to make you a peacemaker, and ask the Lord to show you how you can minister support and encouragement to the spiritual leaders of your church.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

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.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.

Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

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

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.