Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure. It just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
– Robert H Schuller
Encouragement
God created us to thrive on encouragement from others.
– Willie Robertson
Encouragement
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
– Chuck Swindoll
Encouragement | Change
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
– Billy Graham
Courage
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
– George Herbert
Encouragement
I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
– Tim Tebow
Encouragement
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Mother Teresa
Encouragement
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
– Chuck Swindoll
Pain | Discouragement
Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.
– Mark Dever
Encouragement
Alleged impossibilities are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
– Chuck Swindoll
Encouragement
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
– Florence Nightingale
Encouragement
Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships and trials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously.
– Lee Roberson
Encouragement | Victory
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
– Billy Graham
Christianity | Discouragement | Prayer
The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.
– Warren Wiersbe
Discouragement | Scripture | Strength
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Encouragement | Intercession | Discernment
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Encouragement
If there be, therefore, perpetual failure in your life, it cannot arise from any weakness or impotence in the Mighty God; but from some failure on your part. That failure may probably be discovered in one of three hiding places–imperfect surrender, deficient faith; or neglected communion. But when the intention of the soul is right with God, without doubt He will save.
– F.B. Meyer
Encouragement | Surrender | Failure
You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
– Henry Drummond
Encouragement
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
– Helen Keller
Encouragement | Gratitude
Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
– Billy Graham
Courage
It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.
– Thomas Adams
Encouragement
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Encouragement | Helping | Prosperity
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.
– Hosea Ballou
Courage | Honesty
What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.
– Henry Drummond
Encouragement
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
– John Bunyan
DiscouragementDoubt
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
– Helen Keller
Discouragement | Self-pity
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
– Helen Keller
Courage
Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.
– Jack Hyles
Fear | Courage
Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: “Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.”
– Helen Keller
Encouragement | The Future
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
– George Washington Carver
Encouragement | Achievement
When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.
– Warren Wiersbe
Encouragement
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
– David Brainerd
Discouragement | Time
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
– John Quincy Adams
Encouragement | The Heart
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Encouragement
The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.
– William Cowper
Encouragement
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.
– George Macdonald
Encouragement
O take heed of this squint eye to our profit, pleasure, honor, or anything beneath Christ and heaven; for they will take away your heart – that is, our love, and if our love be taken away, there will be little courage left for Christ.
– William Gurnall
Courage
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.
– Francois Fenelon
Discouragement | Light
If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.
– Thomas Fuller
Encouragement
Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face.
– Isaac Watts
Courage
We are invincible in Christ!
– Crystal McDowell
Encouragement
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
– Alexandre Vinet
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Discouragement
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
– David Brainerd
Encouragement | Comfort
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
– Thomas Fuller
Discouragement | Discretion
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
– A. A. Hodge
Courage
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
– Rick Warren
Encouragement | Fellowship
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Discouragement | The Tongue
He will never ever fail us.
– Crystal McDowell
Faith | God | Encouragement
The valleys are necessary for us to grow up in the Lord.
– Crystal McDowell
Discouragement
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
– William Law
Love | Encouragement
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
– Ravi Zacharias
Encouragement
When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
– Charles Stanley
Courage
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
– Helen Keller
Encouragement | Circumstances
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
– G.K. Chesterton
Courage
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
– Thomas Aquinas
Courage | Endurance
Let this encourage those of you who belong to Christ: the storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. The clouds that are temporarily rolling over your head will pass, and then you will have fair weather, an eternal sunshine of glory. Can you not watch with Christ for one hour?
– William Gurnall
Encouragement
We must dig deep and encourage ourselves in the Lord.
– Crystal McDowell
Encouragement
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
– George Macdonald
Encouragement
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
– John Bunyan
Christians | Encouragement
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
– Thomas Fuller
Discouragement
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
– William Gurnall
Encouragement
I’ll lift you and you lift me, and we’ll both ascend together.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Encouragement
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
– G.K. Chesterton
Courage
The voluptuous and effeminate are never brave; they have no courage in time of danger.
– Francois Fenelon
Courage
Once I knew only darkness and stillness – my life was without past or future – but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
– Helen Keller
Encouragement | The Future
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
– C.S. Lewis
Courage
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
– G.K. Chesterton
Encouragement
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
– Francis de Sales
Encouragement | Work
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
– Helen Keller
Encouragement | Teachers
Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
– Robert Leighton
Encouragement
When men sought to make Him a king He fled; now that they seek to put Him to death He goes out to meet them.
– Assorted Authors
Jesus | Courage
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
– Francois Fenelon
Courage
Open your heart to sympathy, but close it against despondency. The flower which opens to receive the dew shuts against the rain.
– James H. Aughey
Encouragement | The Heart
The more wit the less courage.
– Thomas Fuller
Courage
We could be cowards, if we had courage enough.
– Thomas Fuller
Courage
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
– Thomas Fuller
Encouragement
Despair gives courage to a coward.
– Thomas Fuller
Courage
If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
– George Macdonald
Encouragement | Friendship