So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.
The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
During tough times I can always go back to it and find encouragement. The Bible tells us what God says about us. In it, we read about how much he loves us and that he's got a plan and a purpose for our lives.
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.
The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.
Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.
My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.
The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.
One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.