Top 126 Reassurance Quotes & Sayings

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Sunshine, it’s the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven’t eaten you or anything. (Vane)

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.