Quotes about Encouragement

Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.

You are closer than you think.

God has you in the palm of His hand. He has already planned out your days for good. ... If you knew the great things God had in your future, you wouldn't go around discouraged and negative. You would go out each day with a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

It's so important for you to get around people who will stir up those seeds of greatness. Don't surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people. . . . Did I leave out anything?

will build you up, people who will celebrate your victories, not people who will criticize and be jealous any time you succeed.

It may take a little time to see it come to pass, but it's on the way. Don't get talked out of it. Don't let what's not happening discourage you. Keep believing, keep thanking God, and you're going to see what God has spoken over your life.

There's enough judgment in the world; there's enough criticism and faultfinding. Let's be lifters. Let's be encouragers. Let's help someone else experience the God who comes down to lift people up.

That coat of discouragement doesn't look good on you. That coat of self-pity is out of style. That coat of bitterness over who left you and what you didn't get doesn't fit you anymore.

When you base your value on what other people say or do to you, that's going to push you down. But when you base it on what God says about you, it's going to lift you up to the next level.

Sometimes the people closest to you can't see the greatness in you.

You need to associate with people that inspire you, people that challenge you to rise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

Too often we talk ourselves out of God's best. We allow doubts, fears, and discouraging things people have said to limit us and convince us to settle where we are. Negative voices always speak the loudest.