Encourage People Quotes

#1. I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

Nikki Haley

#2. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

Alexa Von Tobel

#3. Perhaps it's a cultural problem: a capitalistic society that encourages people to see negotiations as a zero-sum game - my loss is your gain, my gain is your loss - will encourage an inevitably adversarial exchange.

Anonymous

#4. I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Joel Osteen

#5. All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#7. What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

Dennis Moore

#8. I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

Phil Keoghan

#9. For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected ... and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.

Simone Campbell

#10. Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.

Jesse Eisenberg

#11. Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

David Ogilvy

#12. The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

Mitra Farahani

#13. Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Donalyn Miller

#14. I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

Heber J. Grant

#15. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.

Michael Delaware

#16. Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

Brian Tracy

#17. The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

#18. People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

Anne Wojcicki

#20. I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Phil Bredesen

#21. If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.

John C. Maxwell

#22. I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

Stevie Wonder

#23. If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.

Steven Machat

#24. These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.

George Orwell

#25. Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.

Gretchen Carlson

#26. A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Ha-Joon Chang

#27. So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Michelle Obama

#28. If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

Ramez Naam

#29. In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Peter Drucker

#30. Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

Gerald McRaney

#31. I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.

Joel Osteen

#32. Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!

Tanya Masse

#33. As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Adam Hamilton

#34. People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.

Blair Warren

#35. One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Herbie Hancock

#36. I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them [people].

Morris Chestnut

#37. Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

Stephen Bungay

#38. As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

David O. McKay

#39. I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Michael Chang

#40. I encourage all my key people to bring their mobiles when they travel.

Raymond Kwok

#41. People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#42. All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Randolph Bourne

#43. I can't work with people who aren't fun loving. I don't encourage such people.

Ravi Teja

#44. On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

#45. Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

Chris Rock

#46. My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.

Lisa Bedrick

#47. Loved people forgive and encourage, serve and uplift, because they are precious to someone.

Jen Hatmaker

#48. We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

Geoff Hoon

#49. One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Seth Godin

#50. We need people of all ages in our lives who will listen, encourage, and pray.

Sophie Hudson

#51. The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Edmund Phelps

#52. Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage its progress, or witness and suffer its decline. (Scott L. Vanatter)

Scott L. Vanatter

#53. My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

Corbin Bernsen

#54. I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

Nicole Richie

#55. Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#56. I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

Vin Diesel

#57. I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

Madonna Ciccone

#58. Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#59. I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.

Tracie Peterson

#60. There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#61. I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Garry Kasparov

#62. One of the first things I do with people is help them figure out what their limiting beliefs are and then encourage them to question, "Well, do I really want to keep that one? Is it limiting me? Does it not fit me? Is it holding me back?"

Deborah King

#63. We don't normally encourage people to be driven towards something

Sunday Adelaja

#64. I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.

Andy Andrews

#65. There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.

Danielle Panabaker

#66. When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally for the rest of their life. That's going to only encourage more people to come here illegally.

Mitt Romney

#67. I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

Steve Capus

#68. I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

Kym Whitley

#69. Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

Peter Blair Henry

#70. Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Barbara Kingsolver

#71. I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

James De La Vega

#72. People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

Scudder Parker

#73. The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

Erykah Badu

#74. I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

Muhtar Kent

#75. A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

Benjamin Carson

#76. To promote "learning-by-being," we can encourage people to engage in unstructured and free-spirited approaches, promoting lateral thinking rather than vertical problem solving.

Matt Ratto

#77. The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Andy Sawford

#78. You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

Clemence Poesy

#79. As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

Evgeny Morozov

#80. The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Chris Hedges

#81. Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

Thomas Keating

#82. So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Joel Osteen

#83. Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.

Bill Gates

#84. After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#85. I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

Matthew Lillard

#86. My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

David Rubenstein

#87. I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Oprah Winfrey

#88. I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

Mark Shuttleworth

#89. I want to inspire and encourage people and intrigue them to want to know what makes me tick, which is ultimately the love of God, the grace, peace and forgiveness of God that I'm so thankful & grateful for.

Christian Hosoi

#90. Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

Ben Bradlee

#91. We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

Common

#92. There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

Helene D. Gayle

#93. The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

Shane Claiborne

#94. Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#95. Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Roy Bennett

#96. It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

Ricky Skaggs

#97. Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.

Zig Ziglar

#98. The key thing to keep in mind is that people do change, but they do it in their own time, for their own reasons. That's why you can hope for change, you can encourage change, you can communicate that you want change, but there are never any guarantees that it will happen.

John Hawkins

#99. I like to encourage people to give locally. It's easy to find and call a local no-kill shelter and see what specific things they need, and believe me, all of them are always in need of something.

Andy Lally

#100. Cell phones, like the other social media constructs of our time, encourage the collecting of so-called friends and contacts similar to how my grandmother used to collect teacups and put them on display in her china cabinet. Only now, the teacups are people, and the china cabinet is Facebook.

Penny Reid