Quotes About Encouragement

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

I thank God that I have been meeting so many people who want to help me.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

Everybody. No matter how they feel about me, everybody on Oklahoma City, on that team, of course I watch them. I support them. I want them to do well.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

I think people should be encouraged that there are so many people in the press that want to participate.

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Life is too short to read depressing books

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

We are Marshalls. We are not alone.

You're enough, and you're loved because God says so. Nothing else.

Hope is the one thing that we have to give when the world is at its darkest.

Tip for a parent trying to be the north star to a child desperate for sun: Sometimes it's enough just to shine.