Top 100 Quotes About Encouragement
#1. I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Sheryl Sandberg
#2. To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.
Matthew Reilly
#3. Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart.
Pat Morley
#4. I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.
Diane Warren
#5. Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
John Piper
#6. Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.
Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix
#7. I can only thank, as I have within myself many times through the years, this unknown benefactor. She was the one who gave me the last piece of encouragement, a thief's good-luck sign.
Patti Smith
#8. My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
Ashley Jensen
#9. May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.
Alistair Begg
#10. Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
John D. Rockefeller
#11. I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird' ... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Harper Lee
#12. All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.
Billy Graham
#13. The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.
Jerry Bridges
#14. An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.
Criss Jami
#16. It's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
Norman Rush
#17. There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
Phil Lesh
#18. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
Nelson Mandela
#19. Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her ... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.
Richard Rodney Bennett
#20. There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement
Jane Austen
#21. I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.
Satya Nadella
#22. Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
Raquel Cepeda
#23. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#24. Here's hoping this book will give wishful actors everywhere the inspiration and encouragement they need follow their dream. They need to know what the life of a working actor looks like and that it is possible to have a successful acting career and a full life without becoming a celebrity or star.
Debbie Zipp
#25. My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.
Christopher Titus
#26. Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
Lucretia Mott
#27. Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of love and tenderness. Envision with me the Savior's embrace as I read His words: Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?
Mervyn B. Arnold
#28. And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
George Carey
#29. Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#30. Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.
Edward Bach
#31. Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.
Stephen Chbosky
#32. Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life."
"Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement,
John Green
#33. The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
David Baldacci
#34. What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In a simple order," said the man. "With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude.
Margaret Atwood
#35. Simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement It's amazing what an impact you will have.
Zig Ziglar
#36. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Adam Smith
#37. Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
Fred Thompson
#38. I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
Lisa Whelchel
#39. If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
John Tyler
#40. Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
Jeffrey Donovan
#41. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
Steven Cuoco
#43. Broken Places
"It is by willfully choosing to trust in the strength God offers, to heal our broken places, that we find encouragement and a deeper relationship with our Father.
Cheryl Zelenka
#44. I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.
Jud Wilhite
#45. Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#46. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
Norah Vincent
#47. Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.
David Jeremiah
#48. Words are powerful. If you've been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement.
Max Lucado
#49. It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.
EsthersChild
#50. What could two men, so different from each other, see in this "brown patch", as Mary called hereself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confinde in their want of beauty)
George Eliot
#51. I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
Barbara Pym
#52. It was a very emotional dinner ... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
Lil' Kim
#53. Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
Maya Angelou
#54. [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.
Kim Harrison
#55. Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear
Sunday Adelaja
#56. I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
Jean Houston
#57. The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
Thomas Malthus
#59. Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
Maya Angelou
#60. My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
John Astin
#61. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.
Cathie Black
#62. The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
Zig Ziglar
#63. I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.
Emeril Lagasse
#64. 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
#65. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.
Michel Faber
#66. Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
Samina Baig
#67. 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
#68. A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.
Alexander McCall Smith
#69. What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?
Oriah Dreamer
#70. To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.
Edwin Osgood Grover
#71. Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.
Mooji
#73. She gave a brittle smile. "The curriculum can be challenging, but I have no doubt that Sophie will do very well."
Never had encouragement sounded so much like a threat.
Rachel Hawkins
#74. The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
Ben Carson
#76. If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#77. All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind - it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement
Elizabeth Gaskell
#78. Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
Henry Purcell
#79. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Joyce Maynard
#80. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#81. 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
#83. My production style is all about imagination. I want my audience to use their imagination when they watch my videos. My goal is for my voice to be that little hope of encouragement in your head when you walk out your door.
Michelle Phan
#85. I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.
Julia Child
#86. Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific
Louise Burfitt-Dons
#87. Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Adora Svitak
#88. Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement.
Kevin DeYoung
#89. we all need reassurance and encouragement. We're human, and that's how we work
Richard Templar
#90. 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
#91. There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.
Sally Ride
#92. Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.
Donalyn Miller
#93. Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.
Billy Graham
#94. Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
Zig Ziglar
#95. Life is tenacious if you give it one little bit of encouragement.
Peter Heller
#96. If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
Aaron Levie
#97. encouragement. Becky Johnson of Hot Tree Editing has been a miracle worker, and this updated version goes to prove how well an author and editor can work together to create a wonderful story. I am blessed
Sheila Kell
#98. My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey
#99. People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.
David Jeremiah
#100. Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Robert Martin
