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Inspirational Quotes About Encouragement

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Index_card_top “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on [all] the faces surrounding him.”
 
Albert Camus (1913-1960);
Author And Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Four Very Powerful Words to Say to Your Child: I BELIEVE IN YOU.”
 
Kevin Heath - Ceo More4kids
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Index_card_top “Look for the good and praise it.”
 
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Index_card_top “Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.”
 
George M. Adams (1837-1920);
Us Representative From Kentucky


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Index_card_top “Everyone has a story, make your own worth telling.”
 
Patrick Ricketts (born 1989);
Life Long Learner


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Index_card_top “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 (1851-1925);
Educator, Historian
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Index_card_top “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
 
Mary Kay Ash (1908-2001);
Entrepreneur
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Index_card_top “...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 (1877-1959);
Economist, Educator


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Index_card_top “If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”
 
Barbara Bush (born 1925);
Wife Of The 41st President Of The United States
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Index_card_top “You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”
 
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955);
Motivational Author
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Index_card_top “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
 
Roy Croft (1907-1973);
Poet. Exerpt From Love


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Index_card_top “Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.”
 
Jerome P. Fleishman -


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Index_card_top “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
 
Haim Ginott (1922-1973);
Educator, Psychologist, Psychotherapist


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Index_card_top “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “Find the good—and praise it.”
 
Alex Haley (1921-1992);
Author


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Index_card_top “Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
 
Elizabeth Harrison (1897-1955);
Investor, Author


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Index_card_top “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
 
Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007);
U.S. First Lady (1963 1969)
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Index_card_top “Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”
 
Christian D. Larson - New Thought Leader
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Index_card_top “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
 
James Madison (1751-1836);
4th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.”
 
Chinese Proverb -
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Index_card_top “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”
 
Jim Stovall - Olympic Weightlifter, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur


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Index_card_top “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
 
Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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Index_card_top “Inspire and bring joy to all those you touch.”
 
Rod Williams - Musician
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Index_card_top “Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always. ”
 
Rod Williams - Musician
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Index_card_top “The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
 
Ovid (43-18);
Roman Poet
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Index_card_top “Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”
 
Buddha -
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Index_card_top “It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
 
Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938);
Founder Of Firestone Tire And Rubber Company


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“One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.”
 
Therese of Lisieux (1873 -1897);
Catholic Nun


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“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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