Encouraging Quotes
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I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
Richard Paul Evans
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Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Allen Boyd
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The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
Lucy Walker
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Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.
Adele
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My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
Charlize Theron
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We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual realities.
John Templeton
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The crisis has not been overcome, but there are many encouraging signs. The economy is recovering in many countries, the imbalances in European trade are declining and the budget deficits in the monetary union are falling.
Mario Draghi
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Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.
Kelley O'Hara
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Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.
Peter Welch
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We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.
Barack Obama
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
Boris Johnson
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Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.
Emma Bonino
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The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
John W. Thompson
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My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
Chris Ware
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Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.
Bonnie Hammer
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I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
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He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.
Ben Affleck
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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
Sara Blakely
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There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.
Blake Lively
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I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
Donald Hall
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I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
Martin Rees