Curtis Jackson Quotes

We all need a little something to believe in.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

My faith keeps me strong.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.

Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it.

You don't criticize or critique your teammates if they're having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they'll encourage you.

If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.

Each of us can provide a positive example to others in our lives, and that's powerful. When I visit those with difficult health conditions, I do my best to provide them with positive motivation because I know I was so inspired by people who showed support for me.

It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, 'We're going to get through this,' it means a lot.

I've had people call me and tell me, 'You've given me courage.' It's fantastic... it's heart-warming to know you can be a ray of hope in somebody's life.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

I know there are millions of people praying for me, and I strongly believe in prayers.

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.