| "The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." »Sidney Madwed |
| "Correction does much, but encouragement does more." »Johann von Goethe |
| "We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily." »Celeste Holm |
| "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it." »John Updike |
| "To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement." »George Burton Adams |
| "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement." »Charles Schwab |
| "Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." »George Burton Adams |
| "If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it." »Joyce Carol Oates |
| "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 |
| "Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren |
| "Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything." »Alexander Michael |
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