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Encouragement Quotes

One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

– John O’Donohue

Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

– Hiram Rhodes Revels

I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

– Harper Lee

The English playwrights of the ’50s and ’60s didn’t really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There’s encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

– Garry Hynes

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

– Joyce Carol Oates

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

– Joel Osteen

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

– Jennifer Granholm

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

– Constance Baker Motley

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn’t have encouragement, but I didn’t have discouragement, because I don’t think anybody knew what that meant.

– Amy Tan

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

– Alan Alda

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

– Anatole France

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement – not just for me, but for everyone.

– Adora Svitak

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

– Al Jolson

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

– Malcolm Fraser

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

– George Carey

Most projects that I’ve done are really not about the project. They’re about what’s going on inside and around, that journey that we’re all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

– Craig T. Nelson

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

– David Ricardo

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

– Celeste Holm

I’ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.

– Patti Smith

Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

– Edd Byrnes

The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.

– Murray Rothbard

I only do private room karaoke where it’s just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.

– Chelsea Peretti

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn’t say, ‘This is really good, you should do this’, She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

– Dannii Minogue

The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

– Catherine Asaro

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

– Jackie Kennedy

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone – for encouragement, to force myself to write.

– Karan Mahajan

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

– Joseph Lancaster

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

– Katharine Butler Hathaway

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

– Lisa Whelchel

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