Encouragement Quotes

"Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film."

"My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'"

"For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back."

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

Charles Schwab

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

Charles Kuralt

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."

Lady Bird Johnson

"Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."

Matthew Jacobson

“When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life.”

“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

“Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.”

“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

“I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life.”

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

Jill Churchill

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

Pablo Picasso

"You've made this day a special day, by just your being you."

Fred Rogers

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel."

Sam Walton

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”

Anatole France

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.”

The Bible (Isaiah 35:4)

“Arise, and be not afraid.”

The Bible (Matthew 17:7)