Encouragement Quotes

“Without stormy days, we forget to value sunny skies.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Encouragers turn mountains into molehills. Discouragers turn molehills into mountains.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We live far happier lives when we are generous in as many ways as possible.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Being positive takes courage.
Kindness takes courage.
Gentleness takes courage.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“All we need to do is get those nervous butterflies in our stomachs flying in formation.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Part of moving forward often involves stumbling a few steps back.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Making it real starts with our attitude.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Discouragers talk at you. Discouragers genuinely want you to hear their opinions.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Discouragers see the gloom in every room, the cloud on every silver lining, and the problem in front of every situation.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Discouragers are the folks who regularly see the glass as half-empty, and they do not want anyone else to get one that's half full.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Unfortunately, being a professional in any field does not require behaving in a professional manner. It sometimes simply means that a person gets paid for what they do.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“If we were being encouraged and encouraging others, the world would be a far more beautiful place.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Fairness is dealt out fairly.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“If someone is not lifting us up, they are holding us down.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Only kind people are truly tolerant.
Only gentle people are truly strong.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We hurt no one when we encourage them to keep on keeping on, to not give up, to recognize how far they've come.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Great memories really can help overwhelm grief.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Rebooting our enthusiasm is like deciding to become our own best coach, rather than our own worst enemy.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Sometimes the brightest lights come out of the darkest corners.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“When we fail to be tolerant of others, we fail.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Never let words of encouragement go unsaid.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“It requires neither time nor money to be kind.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“I am calling for uncommon decency. Respect that comes from awareness.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We want to be with Encouragers, and we want to be like them.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Be one of a kind and be one with human kind.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We frequently and repeatedly need encouragement.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Encouragement makes us believe we can move forward, but it also gives us the power to help others move forward.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Encouragement energizes us. It empowers us.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“We all fare better when we can balance freely expressing and quietly listening.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best