Encourage Quotes

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate

Time, Year, Resolution

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Experience, Spiritual, Different

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

Love, Forget, May

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy

Science, Together, Stars

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

Arrogance, Pretend

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher

Trust, Friends, Grow

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley

Life, Truth, Fear

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire

Time, Good, Country

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Yourself, Through, Others

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
George Washington Carver

Mind, Creative, Possible

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

Children, Decision, Give

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich

Politics, Great, Words

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Positive, Action

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.
Marilyn Manson

Choose, Sexuality

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil

Men, Fear, Blame

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

War, Death, View

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb

Men, Nothing, Another

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Government, Bad

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger

Age, Children, Play

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

Music, Dance, Leaders

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Mason Cooley

Women, Men, Childish

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

Good, Children, Parents

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Faith, Future, Optimism

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
Ellen DeGeneres

Time, Sleep, Political

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
Michelle Obama

Enough, Study, Sure

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley

Corruption, Ambition, System

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.
Temple Grandin

Children, Parents, Important

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Christopher Lasch

Job, Public, Debate

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
Russell Means

Education, Government, Thinking

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