Encouragement Quotes - Page 28

• Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

  Denise Juneau

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  Tea Obreht

  Taken, Thinking, Inexperience

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• A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Optimistic, Adversity, Views

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• An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

  Criss Jami

  Moving, Ambition, Independent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Inspiration, Heart

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• I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Teacher, Sweet, Memories

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• Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

  Dave Earley

  Believe, Drawing, Needs

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• While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I know that my head and my heart, my young family's future, and our unfinished work all remain firmly in the State of California - not Washington D.C. Therefore I will not seek election to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

  Gavin Newsom

  Heart, Unfinished Work, California

  "With Kamala Harris in for Senate bid, Tom Steyer edges closer to a run" by Maeve Reston, www.cnn.com. January 13, 2015.

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• To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Past, Understanding, Tasks

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• Our focus must always be on building people up.

  Dan Davis

  People, Focus, Building

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• ...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Teamwork, Perseverance, Fall

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• I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 25, 2013

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• I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.

  Sue Thoele

  Believe, Live Life, Self

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• You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 01, 2013

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• The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Numbers, Matter

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 01, 2013

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• God is a refiner, not an arsonist.

  Neva Coyle

  Arsonists

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• Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

  Guy Claxton

  Teaching, Self, Expectations

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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• Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Art, Vanity

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• 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

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

  Julia Cameron

  Pregnancy, Artist, Secret

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.123, Penguin

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• I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Charity, Persevere, Christ

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• Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

  Christopher Eccleston

  Years, Thankfulness, Lasts

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• Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Trying, Way, Achieve

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• The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Real, Keys, Smoking

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