Quotes About Encouragement

Descriptive Praise is about noticing and commenting on exactly what your child has done that is right or just okay, or even what he hasn't done wrong.

KEY CONCEPT Superlative Praise = vague, exaggerated, and ineffective Wow, your homework is fantastic! Descriptive Praise = specific, true, and motivating You answered all the questions on this worksheet, even though you weren't sure about some of the answers. You didn't leave any blanks. You challenged yourself and wrote down something for every single question.

Because Descriptive Praise is so specific, it cannot be argued with; it is a fact. You're not making sweeping, exaggerated statements that can easily be disputed or discounted. Instead, you are describing, very specifically and in detail, what your child is doing that pleased you. Maybe he did the right thing, or maybe it was just barely okay, but it was an improvement on what he might have done. You can even notice and mention when your child is not doing anything wrong.

KEY CONCEPT Descriptive Praise improves behavior The concept of Descriptive Praise is easy to grasp: 1. Notice a little thing that your child is doing that is right—or even the smallest step in the right direction! 2. Tell your child exactly what you notice. Describe the behavior in detail. 3. Leave out the over-the-top superlatives.

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.

She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Dünyada bir tane kahraman bulunmal?. Tek ba??na ya?ayanlara cesaret vermek için.

There are people who believe in you. You might not always believe that yourself, but there are—parents, teachers, neighbors, relatives, me. I know that no matter what is thrown at you, you'll recover amazingly.

People speculate about intelligent life, and it's fun to think about, but no one is claiming to have found anyone to talk to out there. I don't care. Life alone is enough. I find it . . . more exciting and encouraging than I can explain, more important than I can explain. There is life out there.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

I pass billboards that announce in black and white, in English, 'Jesus loves even you'. I feel uplifted by the unexpected encouragement; I'm only slightly alarmed by the 'even'. (page 336)

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.

Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At