Encouragement Quotations | Page 4

We are always encouraged when players say they want to join Liverpool.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

It's always nice to get good feedback, and a bit of encouragement can go a long way.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor and encouragement to every possible kind of wrongdoing, the population may well lose faith in the very idea of law. That is how civilization unravels.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.

Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.

The choices you make today design your future

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

People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

We consider that any normalization of relations with Israel in this period would be an encouragement for Israel to continue its settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

We can't thank our fans enough for the record support they showed. For all our clubs, a terrific season was made even better by the enthusiasm and encouragement our fans displayed night after night. We are deeply appreciative.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Our focus must always be on building people up.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.

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.

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

We're looking for three votes, and I can't tell you today who the three will be, but I think the power of the success coming from the floor of the Senate today will give us the necessary momentum and encouragement to do what we all know is the right thing to do.

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.

I only do private room karaoke where its just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.

It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

When we all walked in, you could feel their spirits being uplifted, like they felt very encouraged and happy that we were there. It was just real cool to see that. To be able to go back (to New Orleans), play a game there and be able to uplift them again, that's special.

What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people,

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

We're honored to have been able to do our small part for those who are doing so much. We can only hope that this work motivates Americans to let their words of encouragement and support be heard by those a world away.

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. That gives me encouragement about our economy.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

I started taking acting classes because I had fooled around with it in college and I had received some encouragement and liked it.

While the first quarter is typically our weakest of the year, we are encouraged by the strong level of new orders, many of which reflect improved pricing.

The staff has been encouraged to recognize that this is a transitional period in which old routines probably should be questioned because what has been perfectly acceptable may become dramatically less so.

These strong second-quarter results give us great encouragement that our momentum will continue in the second half of this year and the year 2000.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

It was through his encouragement that I was asked to join the team. I'm glad I was able to contribute, especially in the final game and get those points.

With her outstanding corporate wisdom and business savvy, Pam is a huge addition to the Williams & Williams team, ... With her experience and accomplishments, Pam challenges us to set higher company goals, and delivers the encouragement and motivation needed to achieve them. In Pam's short time here she has already been instrumental in managing key partner negotiations and implementing legal and strategic tactics. Her talents and drive are integral to achieving both our company goals and our vision for the mortgage industry.

We're very encouraged. Our members are speaking out very loudly in huge numbers, they understand what is at stake. This is the year that the state needs to do it.

You don't have to vote for me to get breakfast. I am so humbled by the encouragement and support of the grassroots voters. I owe everything to the voters. If we win the election, it is not about me, it is about them wanting change.

There is nothing in this election that is an encouragement for the business community. You couldn't have gotten much worse of a result.

We wanted to provide them with the greatest encouragement, that the city of Indian Wells and PM Sports are working together, ... And we reached terms so they can feel confident coming in, that this is a good deal for them. We set the stage for it to be a good deal economically.

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

Randy (the Ford's other son) is still healing from his accident earlier this year (he was struck by a sprint car in July, suffering a broken leg). With Doug's condition, racing just isn't that important right now. We appreciate the prayers and encouragement we have received from the racing community, but our family needs to be together right now. I hope everyone understands.

Expectations were for improvements in the economic news, but the reports today have surpassed those expectations, so you have investors finding more encouragement than they did in the reports released in mid-to-late November.

Once we had this program ready and heard some encouragement from a professor, we thought this would be a great thing to go with.

During my opening remarks, I explicitly encouraged attendees to take a shot at hacking the wireless network. Given the level and concentration of hacker talent at these events, I was more than pleasantly surprised they did not succeed. In fact, this is the first year the wireless network has managed to stay up without interruption for more than four hours. That is a true testament to the intrusion protection and advanced security functionality of Aruba's wireless solution.

Coach K calls me and leaves me messages of encouragement, ... He wanted to let me know that he's doing everything he can behind the scenes to help me. He wanted me to know that he's happy for me. That means a lot to me.

Coach K calls me and leaves me messages of encouragement. He wanted to let me know that he's doing everything he can behind the scenes to help me. He wanted me to know that he's happy for me. That means a lot to me.

A lot of people are proud of the facilities we have, but a lot of people have concerns such as aggressive driving. We do a lot with encouragement and 'Share the Road' activities to counteract that.

This has been a great encouragement to me, because people come in and I sometimes can't help them with anything else.

Quitting smoking is a hard thing to do, and it's important to provide as much help and encouragement as we can to the person attempting to quit.

Sometimes, he doesn't like encouragement, so I don't say it. Sometimes, he does. We know each other's personalities, so that works good. He hits the ball a lot harder than I do, but I can place it more. But we both have pretty good serves and volleys, we both know where to place it.

Evangelicals, through their own scholarship as well as the support and encouragement of such bodies as Tyndale Fellowship, the John Wesley Fellowship and, to a lesser extent, the Institute for Biblical Research, have been able to secure positions in academic institutions beyond those traditionally regarded as evangelical. This includes folks teaching at major public and private universities.

There's some encouragement in the initial sweeps. ... The numbers (of dead) so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

The way the students and community come out and are very vocal with works of encouragement for the team is great. We, the coaches, are very pleased with the heart and desire that the players give on every play.

This is the best news we've had so far. ... We think it's good. This is the most encouragement we've had on this in four years.

Young people today would get a great deal of encouragement from knowing how close we could be if we had a man like Dr. King around.

You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understand why. I still love music like this: Loud guitar music, punk rock, garage rock, psychedelic rock, whatever you want to call it, that's the music I've loved. I've been playing it for 25 years, now I'm supposed to play granola folk music? That doesn't make sense to me.

This is a novel study, and although the results seem disappointing to some, we see points of encouragement.

I knew I always wanted the chance to play for Danny. When I was with the Edmonton Eskimos and he was an assistant coach with Calgary, I wasn't dressing my first year and he was in the spotter's booth and he'd always tell me: 'It's a good league. Be patient.' Just those little words of encouragement meant a lot. When he became a head coach, I had the urge to play for him just once in my career.

I'm one happy man right now. I can't tell you how much I appreciated my wife, Joyce, and my family's loyalty and love. Without their strength, encouragement and support I don't know if I would have made it.

I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.

I knew the guys were looking forward to this. I was encouraged by the way they stepped up. We just took care of business.

I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

I've had a tremendous amount of encouragement (to run). I am thinking about it. Obviously, I have family considerations. I need to talk to my two children and four grandchildren I adore.