Top 100 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. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.
Phil Bredesen
#8. 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
#9. Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.
Gretchen Carlson
#10. 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
#11. I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.
Joel Osteen
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.
Michael Chang
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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.
#23. 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
#24. We don't normally encourage people to be driven towards something
Sunday Adelaja
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.
Andy Sawford
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
Victoria Osteen
#38. We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.
Gwen Moore
#39. What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
Sakyong Mipham
#40. There's a reason why movie theatres don't encourage people to bring their goats.
Kelly Link
#41. What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
Richard Dawkins
#42. I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Jack Horner
#43. I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.
David Icke
#44. What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.
Hill Harper
#45. I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.
Carrie Brownstein
#46. Even in cases where most people are doing the right thing, talking about the minority who are doing the wrong thing can encourage people to give in to temptation.
Jonah Berger
#47. Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.
Phil Keoghan
#48. I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that's what makes you cool.
La La
#49. I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.
Robert Downey Jr.
#50. Why would I want to join an organization that would encourage people like myself to become members.
Groucho Marx
#51. Frequently we're asked to come in when the Tao is conflict and crisis. We encourage people to let that Tao happen and not repress it. Especially in new age circles, people just hate conflict and try to repress it.
Arnold Mindell
#52. In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
John M. McHugh
#53. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox
#54. There is not much point in establishing an organisation like the independent commission for information retrieval, or the other organisations that we agreed to, if we do not encourage people to participate.
Martin McGuinness
#55. Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Karen Armstrong
#56. When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?
Tristram Stuart
#57. There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.
Mick Mulvaney
#58. Unfortunately, our society is a victim of such a world system which does not encourage people to live consciously and become who they were called to be
Sunday Adelaja
#59. I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.
Ansel Elgort
#60. I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Jewel
#61. Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.
Michael Dell
#62. People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but I would encourage people to search their desires, to pick out one, and then get out and do it!
Nola Ochs
#63. I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.
Dave Bautista
#64. To encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.
Marcus Buckingham
#65. I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
Doris Day
#66. I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved.
Greg Daniels
#67. I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.
Marilyn Manson
#68. While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
Dave Ramsey
#69. Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good ... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope Francis
#70. I always telling people to "not try this at home," because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can't encourage people to try that stuff.
Jamie Hyneman
#71. I encourage people to pick up small habits like taking a walk after meals ... we've become way too sedentary. Just move!
Theo Rossi
#72. All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Leonard Carmichael
#73. The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
Chip Conley
#74. If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.
Richard Thaler
#75. I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
Folorunsho Alakija
#76. I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.
Al Gore
#77. I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
Nick Offerman
#78. I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.
Myles Munroe
#79. Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
Aaron Sanchez
#80. I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.
Max Walker
#81. I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
Kina Grannis
#82. Most conversations drift. You need to steer. Assume the task of cutting boring threads of conversation and of offering new options. Encourage people to tell stories they mention in passing. Don't wait to be invited into a group, introduce yourself. In short: lead.
Charlie Houpert
#84. The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
Henry Reed
#85. I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
Gavin De Becker
#86. My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can - there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there's bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really.
Ann Leckie
#87. I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.
Marilyn Manson
#88. There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
Lizz Winstead
#89. I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
Paula Fox
#90. You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
#91. I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.
Miranda Kerr
#92. I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#93. I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.
Cindy Sheehan
#94. Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.
Paulo Coelho
#95. As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
#96. I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Terri Windling
#97. For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver for that. That's what I'd encourage people to understand as they listen to my music. It's distinct. My worldview bleeds through my music.
LeCrae
#98. I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.
Mark Wahlberg
#99. I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.
Jane Cleland
#100. I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.
Michael Franti
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