#encourage

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#encourage #encouraging #succeed #success #success

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#heal #smiles #men

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles #encouragement

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#fight-back #troubles #encouragement

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#encouragement #encouragement

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today. ↗

— Terri Ann Armstrong

#encouragement

Edward can do everything, right?" I explained. Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look. "I hope you haven't been showing off-it's rude," she scolded. "Just a bit," he laughed freely. "He's been too modest actually," I corrected. "Well, play for her," Esme encouraged. "You just said showing off was rude," he objected. "There are exceptions to every rule," she replied. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #esme-cullen #jasper-hale #twilight #encouragement

I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#romance #encouragement

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gods #occult #encouragement

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#inspirational #inspirational