Top 1200 Encouraging Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.

I've long admired Michelle Obama's devotion to encouraging fitness for children.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

The Indian audiences have accepted me wholeheartedly. I find that very encouraging.

The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

We should be encouraging - not penalizing - folks who want to pursue higher education.

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

I'm always encouraging my fans to be resilient lovers and fighters simultaneously.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Your words have power. Find words that unite. Find words that unify.

I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.

But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Knowing that I can play with some of the best out there is definitely encouraging.

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

I'm passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin.

Action movies haven't been encouraging in my case. Nevertheless, this is my favourite genre.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

Telling or encouraging people to vote for a party would be an insult to peoples' intellect.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.