Eric Flint Quotes

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.

It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

What I've found is that every time you have that uncertainty, if you face it, walk through it, you grow as an individual and gain confidence.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.