Top 78 Good Encouragement Quotes
#1. Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
Therese Of Lisieux
#2. I can only thank, as I have within myself many times through the years, this unknown benefactor. She was the one who gave me the last piece of encouragement, a thief's good-luck sign.
Patti Smith
#3. Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.
Blaque Diamond
#6. It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?
Cheryl Richardson
#7. There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!
J.P. Vaswani
#9. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.
Michel Faber
#10. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good t the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together. What comfort and encouragement this should be to us.
Jerry Bridges
#11. Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
John Piper
#12. Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#13. Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.
Kelly Bartlett
#15. We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#17. Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
Dannii Minogue
#19. 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.
Ben Feldman
#20. If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
Aaron Levie
#22. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#23. A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
Kevin Bacon
#25. I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Bill Kreutzmann
#28. So Jesus is a great model of how to live, pray, and relate to people. But remember that if Jesus is only a model for us, then he is no encouragement - for he is too good. No one could live up to his standard. Jesus came not just to be a model but a savior.
Timothy Keller
#29. Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
Ravi Zacharias
#30. Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
Terry Pratchett
#31. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
Scott Hahn
#32. The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
Thomas More
#33. All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Many good people read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, corrections, encouragement, and information.
Neil Gaiman
#36. It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won't depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.
Drexel Deal
#37. Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit
Abraham Maslow
#38. It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.
Kate Langley Bosher
#39. I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.
Diane Warren
#40. One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.
Mark Victor Hansen
#41. Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Andy Gibb
#44. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#45. It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful
Zig Ziglar
#46. Instead of, "Excellent work."
Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."
Instead of, "Good job following directions."
Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.
Julie King
#47. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#48. I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.
Narada Michael Walden
#49. It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.
Wiley Cash
#50. People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves
Mr. T
#51. I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
Julian Casablancas
#52. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
Ray Stannard Baker
#53. She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.
Jane Austen
#54. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
#55. At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.
William Kent Krueger
#56. Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#58. Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.
David Berg
#59. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Solomon
#62. 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.
Henri Nouwen
#63. Little things done with love are much better than big things without love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Steve Maraboli
#66. Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.
Tony Dungy
#68. Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams
#69. The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#70. Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.
Rachel Hauck
#72. She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.
Helen Oyeyemi
#73. The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
Edmund Burke
#74. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.
George Matthew Adams
#75. Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!
Robbie Thomas
#76. It's always nice to get good feedback, and a bit of encouragement can go a long way.
Andy Murray
#77. I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.
Jack Welch
