Category — Quotes from Dictionary of Encouragement

Do not abandon yourselves to despair.  We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.  (Pope John Paul II)

Encouragement Always.

You have it easily in your purpose to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now.  How?  By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.  Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Encouragement Always.

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long.  Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward.  Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.  The past cannot be changed.  The future is yet in your power.

Encouragement Always.

Do you wish to be great?  Then begin by being.  Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility.  The higher your structure  is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Encouragement Always.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. (Abraham Lincoln)

We ought not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.  (George Washington)

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.  (Thomas Jefferson)

Encouragement Always.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Encouragement Always.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid.   She will never sit on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Encouragement Always.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Encouragement Always.

Whatever you do, you need courage.  Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.  There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.  To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.  Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Encouragement Always.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities.  One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.

Encouragement Always.