#encouragement

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#come #encouragement #friends #hearts #holds

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. ↗

— Traci LaRussa

#christ #christian #encouragement #faith #focus

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#down #encouragement #i #kind #lack

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#encouragement #friend #good #good friend #nothing

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

#be different #because #different #encouragement #expectations

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#encouragement #freedom #motivation #recovery #experience

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#encouragement #unity #change

When we encourage others With no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity's progress-standard. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#inspirational

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know. ↗

— Deborah L. Parker

#inspirational #personal-story #inspirational