Encourage Quotes

#1. There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Emmylou Harris

#3. Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

Radhanath Swami

#4. My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

Juliet Mills

#5. I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of our nation's young people. I encourage you to continue to support programs that help children to discover their talents and believe in themselves.

Hillary Clinton

#6. To keep children healty, it's important to keep them active. Of course you can control what goes into their mouths, but it's also about putting the active back into family activity. Go outside with them, live in the moment and encourage them. That'll help you find fulfillment in your life as well.

Jennie Finch

#7. Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

Ronald Reagan

#8. Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.

Bell Hooks

#9. Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

Silvio Scaglia

#11. I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

Dawnn Lewis

#12. When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Roger Crawford

#13. Spiritual dreams are meant to comfort us during difficult times, show us how much we have grown, and encourage us to go to a higher level.

Pamela Cummins

#14. What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Ian O'Doherty

#15. I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.

Kathryn Budig

#16. It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.

Lea Michele

#17. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

Kim Alexis

#18. While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services.. to all contribute.

Rupert Murdoch

#19. Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they like you but you will like you too.

John Patrick Hickey

#20. Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.

Thomas S. Monson

#21. I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

Terry Gilliam

#22. If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

Franz Kafka

#23. I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

David Byrne

#24. I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."

Isaac Mizrahi

#25. Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.

J.M. Coetzee

#26. Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

#27. I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.

Margaret D. Klein

#28. Thinking about hell doesn't help me live the way I should. I believe this is true for most people. And thinking that other people might go to hell just feels evil to me, like a very grave sin. So I don't want to encourage anyone else to think that way either.

Marilynne Robinson

#29. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In

Bertrand Russell

#30. Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

George Washington

#31. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Naveen Jain

#32. I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Angela Ahrendts

#33. I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

Lisa Kleypas

#34. Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.

Margaret Hodge

#35. I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.

Elie Wiesel

#36. I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

Bindi Irwin

#37. A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

Max Lucado

#38. Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

James Mirrlees

#39. My primary objective is to encourage dialogue between all Christians, both Jew and Gentile, and to open more lines of communication with Jews who still have yet to accept Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.

James Mikolajczyk

#40. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Theo Rossi

#41. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

#42. Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.

Tom Cunningham

#43. The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Gary Zukav

#44. Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

Agnes Repplier

#45. I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.

Jon Bowermaster

#46. My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance.

Jessica Knoll

#47. Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

David Millar

#48. We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

James Patterson

#49. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

#50. Like creativity, collaboration is a habit - and one I encourage you to develop.

Twyla Tharp

#51. Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

Sheryl Sandberg

#52. Shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.'1 Whatever

Owain Service

#53. Her philosophy is very empowering - that everything we want or need in life we can have, and we can get for ourselves. (She also believes that you should say nice things to your water if you want to encourage its healing properties, but every sage has a few eccentricities.) I

Megyn Kelly

#54. We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

Arianna Huffington

#55. You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Nathaniel Branden

#56. Digiphrenia - the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

Douglas Rushkoff

#57. Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

Shinzo Abe

#58. I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Peter Hook

#59. This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

Donald Evans

#60. So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

Ellen G. White

#61. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#62. I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

Danny Pintauro

#63. I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet. But what I crave is novelty and stimulation.

Tish Harrison Warren

#64. If we blind them to The Adversary - decrease their desire for The Desire - while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Geoffrey Wood

#65. Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

Kate Klise

#66. The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

Richard Stallman

#67. Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Andrae Crouch

#68. If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

David Platt

#69. Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Mary Lou Williams

#70. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Sun Tzu

#71. And, what's worse, we didn't get where we are today thanks to policy makers - but thanks to the appetite for risks and errors of a certain class of people we need to encourage, protect, and respect.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#72. Pain is a warning," said Anaander Mianaai. "What would happen if you removed all discomfort from your life? No," Mianaai continued, ignoring Seivarden's obvious distress at her words, "I value that moral indignation. I encourage it.

Ann Leckie

#73. While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

Leanne Payne

#74. For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.

Robert Cheeke

#75. I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.

Jane Austen

#76. Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

Mao Zedong

#77. Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.

Deborah L. Parker

#78. Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.

Bethany Hamilton

#79. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

Sarah Palin

#80. Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

Robin Sharma

#81. To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage.

Debasish Mridha

#82. I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.

Colin Trevorrow

#83. True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#84. What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

Eric Kandel

#85. One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself to France and Europe and California, and spent time immersing myself in those culinary traditions. I'd encourage future chefs to dive into whatever culture most excites them, and that they want to cook.

Rick Tramonto

#86. There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#87. You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!

Israelmore Ayivor

#88. God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Joyce Meyer

#89. Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Michael Steele

#90. It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

Pat Tiberi

#91. Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

Joel Osteen

#92. She continued, "You know, we never use that word. Aspies. We don't want them thinking it's some sort of club." More negative implications from someone who was presumably paid to assist and encourage.
"Like homosexuality?" I asked.
"Touche," said Julie.

Graeme Simsion

#93. What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.

Liza Minnelli

#95. We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

Kay Hagan

#96. [God] wants to help you overcome the bitterness and anger that you feel, and He wants to encourage you ... He knows that anger and depression will never help you deal with your problems - they only make them worse.

Billy Graham

#97. For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies.

Michael Arrington

#98. I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.

Joel Osteen

#99. I am careful
with whom I spend my time.
I surround myself only
with those who encourage
and uplift me.

Human Angels

#100. I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

Keenen Ivory Wayans