Top 650 Encouragement Quotes & Sayings

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything.

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.

I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.

I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

People need encouragement to take action.

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on him and declared him a hero of Islam. That is a matter of concern for every peace-loving citizen of Pakistan because terrorists and killers should not be given this type of encouragement. And this is encouragement for other people to take lives with their own hands and kill innocent people.

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

It's amazing what a little encouragement can do.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.

I get so full off of stories that people send in of encouragement.

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

There is no dearth of talent in India, but there is no encouragement and facilities to train.