QUOTES ABOUT ENCOURAGEMENT

 

“He is your Father, and His role is to protect you; He will comfort you and guide you. He will feed you; He will carry you when you are weak. He will seek you out when you go astray; He will help you in times of trouble. He will not let your enemies go unpunished; He will cherish you like a father cherishes his daughter. When you fall, He will pick you up; when you don’t understand, He will always understand.

When you feel like life is weighing you down, He will lift you up. When you feel like giving up, He will encourage you to keep going. When you are sad, He will lighten your spirits. When you need advice, His line is open 24-7. When you feel unsafe, He will be your safety; when you are worried, He will be an ear to your concerns. When you feel burdened, offer your burden to Him and He will take it. Where you have been burnt, He will make you beautiful; where you hurt, He will heal. Whenever you feel lonely, He will always be with you.

Where others have not supported you, He will support you. When you feel discouraged, He will be your encouragement. Where you don’t know, He will tell you when the time is right. When you feel unloved, remember that He has always loved you.

You see limitations; God sees opportunities. You see faults; God sees growth. You see problems; God sees solutions. You see limitations; God sees possibilities. You see life; God sees eternity.”

• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe or take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
  Francis Bacon
   
• To read without reflecting is like eating without digestion.
  Edmund Burke
   
• Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents.
  Ezra Pound
   
• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
  Isaac Asimov
   
• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would not offend anybody, there would be very little printed.
  Benjamin Franklin
   
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
  Socrates
   

• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  Isaac Asimov
   
• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
  E.M. Foster
   
• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
  Isaac Asimov
   
• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
  Charles Darwin
   
• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
  Marie Curie
   
• Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
  Giordano Bruno
    
• During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
  George Orwell
   
• A man who seeks the truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
  Epictetus
   
• He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.
  Benedict Spinoza
   
• The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
  Aristotle
   
• Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.
  Chinese Proverb
   
• Without free speech no search for truth is possible…no discovery of truth is useful.
  Charles Bradlaugh
   
• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
  Isaac Asimov
   
• The secret to humor is surprise.
  Aristotle
  
  
• Humor is just another defense against the universe.
  Mel Brooks
   
• Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
  Bill Nye
   
• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
   
• Let us so live that when we come die even the undertaker will be sorry.
  Mark Twain
  
  
• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
  Duke Ellington
   
• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get to the facts.
  E.B. White
  
  
• There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and praise.
  Mary Kay Ash
   
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  Mark Twain
   
• A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
  Unknown
   
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
  Helen Keller
   
• Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
  Michael Faraday
   
• Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
  Galileo
   
• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
• Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
  Virgil
   
• Forever is composed of nows.
  Emily Dickinson
   
• Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not.
  Epicurus
   
• I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary.
  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
   
• The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.
  Ruth Hermence Green
   
• As someone once said, "Astrology was born when the first knave met the first fool." You can substitute any other kind of crap for astrology and the statement will remain true.
  Isaac Asimov
   
• We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure.
  Carl Sagan
   
• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
  Albert Einstein
   
• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
  Euripides
   
• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
  Henry Ford
   
• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
  Samuel Johnson
   
• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
  Albert Einstein
   
• The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
  Thomas Carlyle
   
• The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow men.
  Robert G. Ingersoll
   
• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the development of the contrary qualities.
  Lord Acton
   
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• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
    Goethe
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• The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
  Elbert Hubbard
   
• Little things affect little minds.
  Benjamin Disraeli
   
• What did you ask at school today?
  Richard Feynman
   
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
  Chinese Proverb
   
• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  Albert Einstein
   
• Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
  Charles F. Kettering
   
• Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
  Nigerian Proverb
   
• Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
   
• A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wings.
  Robert G. Ingersoll
   
• What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them, because, after careful thought, he finds a balance of evidence in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.
  Bertrand Russell
   
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
  William Butler Yeats
   
• “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
  But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
   Paulo Coelho
   
  
• “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    Richard Bach,
  
  
    
  
  
    
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  “It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”
    Karen Marie Moning,
  
  
•  Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
  
    Steve Martin,
  
  
• “Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
    Robert Fulghum
• “How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
    Steve Maraboli,
  
  
   
•   “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.
• “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
    Joel Osteen
  
  
   
• “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
    Alfred Tennyson
   
• “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  
  
   
•  “Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
  
    John C. Maxwell
  
  
•  “I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”
    Douglas Pagels

• “But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.”
  Amy Wilson-Carmichael
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  “The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.”
        Amy Gatliff
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 “Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.”
  Gary Chapman,

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    “...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
  Morgan Matson,
• “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
    Anne Lamott,
  
  
   
• “Don't let the muggles get you down.”
  J.K. Rowling,
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  Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
   Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
  
  
• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
  
    J.R.R. Tolkien,