Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes About Encouragement

Quotes about: Encouragement

• Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Children, Father

  "Save the Children". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 1994.

• There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Responsibility, Criticism

• I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Work, Giving

  "Testimony". Ensign magazine, p. 69, May 1998.

• It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Wonderful Friends, Giving

• In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Differences, Preparation

• Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Years, Differences

  "Bring Up a Child in the Way He Should Go". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 1993.

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