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Quotes About Encouragement

It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.
~ Normani Kordei
We rise by lifting others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't give up. Come on. Just keep on trying. Don't frown. Smile! You can do it. If you just try a little harder. I've got a feeling this whole thing might just work out okay. You'll see. Don't give up. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Now I want to see all of you get up on your feet and look like you're enjoying yourselves. Come on, let's see some of that famous 'Pennsylvania optimism' I've heard so much about...
~ Abraham Lincoln
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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
A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune. The value of children is the greatest of all encouragements to marriage. We cannot, therefore, wonder that the people in North America should generally marry very young.
~ Adam Smith
Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that, along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their "rightness." The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them—loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.
~ Adele Faber
Children often experience praise of a brother or sister as a put-down of themselves. They automatically translate, 'Your brother is so considerate' into 'Mom thinks I'm not.' It's a good idea to save our enthusiastic comments for the ear of the deserving child.
~ Adele Faber
encouraging nod of the head. Through the gigantic glass windows
~ Adrian McKinty
I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Any sadness I might have felt, any suspicion that happiness or understanding was unattainable, seemed to find ready encouragement in the sodden dark-red brick buildings and low skies tinged orange by the city's streetlights.
~ Alain de Botton
No one has ever learned anything under conditions of humiliation. The moment you said anything humiliating, the lesson is over. They are not on your side and they are offended. As We know it from feedback forms, it has got to be 99% sweetness and light and honey and 1% criticism, then you've got a potential chance to educate.
~ Alain de Botton
SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE! -on a stone in Kalaupapa
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn't looking.
~ Alan Dean Foster
People hate to see you on high vibes doing something positive or something you love, especially if you're doing it better than them or the people they prop up with their support. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
He can only encourage; the action
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Be Strong You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring
~ Dezshvon Lewis