Quotes on Encouragement

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

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

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

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

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

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

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.