Encouragement Quotes

• In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Beginning
  • Economic
  • Questions

• It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Novel
  • Reader
  • Encouragement

• Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

  

  Carol Kent
  • Hope
  • Choices
  • Journey

• Require the encouragement and cooperation of the United Nations.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Cooperation
  • Encouragement
  • United Nations

• We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

  

  Celeste Holm
  • Dies
  • Encouragement

• A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Criticism
  • Kindness
  • Helpful

• Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

  

  Annie Laurie Gaylor
  • Real
  • Jesus
  • Inspiration

• If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Eye

• Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Encouragement
  • Oxygen

• I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Kind

• While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Truck
  • Encouragement
  • Footprint

• Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

  

  George Porter
  • Work
  • Research
  • Encouragement

• Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Criticism
  • Students
  • Encouragement

• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  

  Karen Walton
  • Writing
  • Summer
  • Helping

• My parents, God bless 'em, were very supportive of me and my decision to pursue acting. Their dream for me and my sister was that we graduate from college. And as soon as I fulfilled that, they were extremely supportive of what I wanted to do next. I will always be grateful to them for that, because I wouldn't be where I am today without their help and encouragement.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Dream
  • College
  • Decision

• Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

  

  George Burton Adams
  • Opportunity
  • Feel
  • Encouragement

• Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

  

  Sigourney Weaver
  • Need
  • Encouragement
  • Depend

• In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Relationship
  • Encouragement
  • Insulting

• There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  

  George Burton Adams
  • Character
  • Success
  • Encouragement

• We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Children
  • Encouragement

• I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Innovation
  • I Believe
  • Encouragement

• Minimize inappropriate encouragement.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Encouragement

• I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Parent
  • Tolerance
  • Spending

• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Special
  • Lines
  • Population

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