Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. - Arthur Lydiard
Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated! - Stephanie Lahart
Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What you need is subtlety. - Sandy Vaile
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief. - Benjamin Lotter
A dream may encourage us, but at the end of the day, it's just a dream. We should also learn how to make a move. - Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always. - Roy Bennett
Be an intentionally D.U.M.B. Person today! D-Demonstrate love to someone todayU-Understand and encourage someone todayM-Motivate someone todayB-Believe in someone today - DeWayne Owens
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways. - Carla H. Krueger
Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality. - Geoffrey Wood
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. - André Breton
I would encourage you to embrace life in your living. - Ricky Maye
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
I encourage you, to take control to take back your power. Make the time and effort to invest in yourself. Self-care and healing. Taking time for stillness and contemplation. Reflect on your own behaviour. Decide what kind of person you want to be and then take the steps to be that person. - Akiroq Brost
Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel. - John Paul Warren
Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on! - Tanya Masse
The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people. - Ellen J. Barrier
Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them. - Kimberly Giles
Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. - Deborah Day
You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust. - Debasish Mridha
Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. - Edith Sitwell
The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive. - Soraya Diase Coffelt
Be happy with yourself to encourage others. - Debasish Mridha
The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example. - Sharon Law Tucker
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. - Publilius Syrus
As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you. - Auliq-Ice
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations - Ben Carson, M.D.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. - Chad Sugg
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. - Mark Jenkins
Mighty waves of oceans live in my soul to encourage me to survive. - Harshada Pathare
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. - Ryan Lilly
The metamorphosis of your life begins with your mental appreciation for the cocoon stage of your journey. The adversities, the struggles, the perils of life are what either destroy your motivation or encourage your transformation to become what you were truly born to be. A WINNER! - DeWayne Owens
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. - Guy de Maupassant
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. - Gordon B. Hinckley
On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward. - John Patrick Hickey
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. - Marty Rubin
If you're about to take a risk--one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear--you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter. - Kamal Ravikant
I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle. - Debasish Mridha
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you. - Emma Watson
If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong. - Noam Chomsky
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. - Albert Einstein
Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. - Henry Cloud
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. - Roger Crawford
Your superpowers don't care who you dislike. If you are an encourager, you encourage them anyway - Janna Cachola
To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage. - Debasish Mridha
Surround yourself with people who will believe in you, challenge you and encourage you. - Karim Camara
If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I always encourage my sisters to be fearless, it is never too late to stop the damage or accept change. - Nisan Ahmado
My mentors inspired and encourage to fulfill my highest potential. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. - Deborah Day
Appreciation is the best currency to encourage someone do something for humanity. - Debasish Mridha
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc… - Geoffrey Wood Grimrack An Infernal Epistolary
If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. - Geoffrey Wood
If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you. - Seth Adam Smith
We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence. - Unarine Ramaru
We don’t normally encourage people to be driven towards something - Sunday Adelaja
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston
Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy. - Unarine Ramaru
A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement. - Debasish Mridha
As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. - Sheryl Sandberg
Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you will stop gossiping about people and using your words to bring people down? Try that today, speak only the good things you know about people and encourage others to do the same, - Ane Krstevska
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience. - Steve Karagiannis
Leaders who listen to their team ,encourage dreams, they inspire success by example andl ignite the passion needed to achieve ~ - Bluenscottish
Encourage don't belittle, embrace their individuality. And show them that no matter what they will always have value if they stay true to themselves. - Solange nicole
No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds! - K. Lamb
Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The greatest inspiration you can find in this world is "YOU" when you help someone, encourage them, praise them, smile at them or just be kind to them that is a huge Inspiration to you and them!! - Angie karan
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS! - Joyce Meyer
I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story. - Jolina Petersheim