Encouraging Quotes

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

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

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.