Encouraging Quotes
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It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Ken Hensley
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I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot
Frances Bean Cobain
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My parents have truly gone above and beyond in not only supporting me but also encouraging me to follow my dreams. My dad's only wish was that I made sure to go to college for theatre and study my craft.
Mikaela Hoover
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I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
Anne Stevenson
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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
Dirk Benedict
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Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
Oprah Winfrey
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
Barbara Mikulski
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What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Alexander Haig
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I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.
Kevin Spacey
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The news from the U.S. continues to come out encouraging for the dollar.
Ian Stannard
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My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
Saina Nehwal
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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.
P. J. O'Rourke
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All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.
Lois Capps
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Inflation is up, driven by energy prices. Underlying core rates remain low, which is encouraging.
Ben Bernanke
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Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
John Garamendi
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Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.
C. S. Lewis
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Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
James L. Buckley
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We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.
David Jeremiah
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I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
Joel Osteen
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We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.
Adena Friedman
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I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.
Eleanor Smeal
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Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, 'Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.'
Warren Farrell