Encouraging Quotes

• It's very encouraging to be included. Last year, we played one date in Nashville and it was our first experience. But in light of the popularity of 'Kiss Me,' it worked out again this year. And it's amazing to be on such a great bill.

  

  Leigh Nash Sixpence None the Richer
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Popularity

• There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

  

  John Reid KC and the Sunshine Band
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Together
  • Encouraging

• We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Christian
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Why
  • Father

• Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Confidence

• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Safety
  • Encouraging

• God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• They support me and they are encouraging me to move forward and to continue my campaign for girls' education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Support
  • Encouraging

• My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.

  

  Craig Mello
  • Mom
  • Encouraging

• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Good
  • May
  • Nature

• Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Women
  • School
  • Career

• I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Good
  • American
  • Future

• The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

  

  Kerry Healey
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • May
  • Law

• Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
  • God
  • Future
  • Way

• Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Career

• Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Encouraging

• I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • People
  • Encouraging

• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

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