Encouraging Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

Alan Bates

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Sarah McLachlan

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

Troy Vincent

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

Lisa Whelchel

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Chubby Checker

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

Dannii Minogue

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

Jimmy Johnson

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Emmylou Harris

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Dirk Benedict

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

Bruce McCulloch

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

Larry Norman

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Jim Courier

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

Celeste Holm

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

Ken Hensley

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Suzanne Farrell

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Garry Kasparov

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in Conversations With My Father! I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

David Krumholtz

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.

Burton Cummings

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Marilyn vos Savant

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

Laura Bush

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Donald Rumsfeld

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Elias Hicks

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

George Washington Carver

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Daniel H. Hill

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

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

William Graham Sumner