Encouragement Quotes - Page 24

• Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Artist, Opportunity

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

  Avey Tare

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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• No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

  Bill Johnson

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• In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

  Richard Baxter

  Differences, Honor, Holiness

  Richard Baxter, Richard Bulger Schlatter (1957). “Richard Baxter & Puritan Politics”

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• We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

  Thomas Paine

  Opportunity, Faces, World

  "Common Sense". Book by Thomas Paine, 1776.

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• 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.

  Alan Chambers

  Struggle, Biblical, Offering

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

  Tom Waits

  Serious, My Family, Motivated

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• You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Real, Heart

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• Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

  Timothy Murphy

  Answers, Amnesty, Illegal

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• The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, People, Usual

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.260, We Publish Books

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• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Distance, Heart, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Real, Self Esteem

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.

  William Morris

  Hands, Long, May

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• I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.

  Mirah

  Song, Thinking, Tree

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

  O. Henry

  Sucess, Brilliant, Great Men

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• Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

  George Porter

  Wife, Tonight, Research

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• I benefited from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me even when I didn't always believe in myself.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Kids, People

  "Jim Abbott - The Halos Heaven Interview". Interview with Rev Halofan, www.halosheaven.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

  Tony Benn

  People, League, Important

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Children, Confused, Mean

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• Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Be Good

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• I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Careers, Firsts

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• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Flames, Achievement, Sparks

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• I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

  Narada Michael Walden

  People, Giving, Needs

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