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Quotes About Encouragement

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The best way to contorl people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
We must make some effort, but we must forget ourselves in the effort we make... So it is necessary for us to encourage ourselves and to make an effort up to the last moment, when all effort disappears.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Always speak up and never talk down.
~ Siddharth Astir
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~ Sidney Hook
The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
~ Sidney Madwed
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
~ Sidney Madwed
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Cuando todos gritan contra ti es suficiente que una sola persona luche por ti para que recuperes tu fuerza, tu capacidad de lucha.
~ Silvana de Mari
Wherever you go, whomever you meet, look for an opportunity to help, to inspire, to lend support.
~ Simon Jacobson
Try to drown the whispers in your head that are negative with the knowledge, with the stronger and louder certainty that you are wonderful, inspiring and interesting, both now and into your future.
~ Simon Reeve
Hope is the greatest of all gifts.
~ Simon Van Booy
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.
~ Simone Elkeles
Maggie squeezes my hand. It's a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.
~ Simone Elkeles
Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead." How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better.
~ Simone Elkeles
all these words, this laughter, these marks of attention, helped to lift me back in the saddle, to hold my horse's bridle with a firm grip.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Encouragement is an incentive on its own.
~ sindiswa matyobeni
Look back, then tap your shoulder.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Never worry with those who left you because of your weakness, but remember the ones who helped you see the light through the darkness.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Talk about good things, and they'll bring you great things.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
In his response, James argued: "... all direct 'encouragement' - the thing you enjoin me on - encouragement of the short cut and say 'artless' order, is really more likely than not to be shallow and misleading...
~ Siri Hustvedt
God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
Way to rock lil' homie. Much Love.
~ Gary Payton
Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.
~ Karen Salmansohn