Quotes about Encouragement
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
— Mark Twain
Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
— Joel Osteen
So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
— Joel Osteen
I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.
— Joel Osteen
I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.
— Joel Osteen
I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
— Joel Osteen
We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.
— Joel Osteen
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
— John Milton
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
— John Murray
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
— John Ortberg
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
— John Owen
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