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Encouragement

The following quotes of encouragement will inspire you to strive for your best no matter how tough things are. Any of the insightful quotes below are worthy of an encouragement greeting card saying.

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.--Booker T. Washington
Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.--Francesco Guicciardini
Children may forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you make them feel.--Parker Palmer (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.--Goethe
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.--Abraham Lincoln
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.-~John M. Maxwell
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nutruring family.--Virginia Satir
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.--William Arthur Ward
Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.--William Ellery Channing
The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.--Sue Atchley Ebaugh
I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.--William Morris
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.--Booker T. Washington
I feel that what we must say to one another is based on encouraging each of us to be true to herself: "Now that we are equal, let us dare to be different!"--Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
I praise loudly. I blame softly.--Catherine II of Russia
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.--G. K. Chesterton
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.--Loretta Girzartis
If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible.--Oscar Wilde
If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.--Fritz Perls
If you think that praise is due,
Now's the time to show it,
'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead.--Anonymous
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.--Thomas Fuller
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.--Maya Angelou
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.--Irish blessing
The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Mr. Shanley's kindness put me at ease and gave me the confidence to learn. His encouragement helped me to relax and, in turn, excel academically. He's the one I will always remember because he's the one who seemed to care.--Meredith McWade (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.--Eric Hoffer
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few wellchosen, welltimed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.--Sam Walton (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 155)
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.--Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book)
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.--William Arthur Ward
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.--John C. Maxwell
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.--Eileen Caddy
Shout praise, whisper blame. Sow encouragement, reap enthusiasm.--Michael Rawls
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.--Joann Thomas
That's what's wrong with the world--people don't compliment other people enough. They would change the world if they did.--Sister Gervase (in What is a Calling? by Novak)
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.--George Matthew Adams
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.--Roger Ascham
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.--Katharine Butler Hathaway
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.--Elizabeth Harrison
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.--James Matthew Barrie
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.--George Bernard Shaw
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.--Henry David Thoreau
We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily.--Celeste Holm
What men and women need is encouragement.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.--Eleanor H. Porter (Pollyanna)
When God looks at us he sees all the promise and talents he has given us. If only we could see ourselves as our heavenly Father does!--Ken Rolheiser (Where Earth Meets Heaven: Seeing God in Your Life)
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after a success.--Unknown
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.--Jim Stovall (Success Secrets of Super Achievers)

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