The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that! Ken Hensley
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. Jose Marti
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. Fritz Perls
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
encouragement in Dutch is stijving, bemoediging, aanmoediging
encouragement in French is encouragement
encouragement in German is Einsatz, Aufmunterung {f}, Ermunterung {f}
encouragement in Latin is consolatio
encouragement in Norwegian is oppmuntring
encouragement in Portuguese is incentivo
encouragement in Swedish is uppmuntran
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