Quotes about encouragement
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John F. Kennedy photo
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Don Feder photo

“A civilization of life is one that embraces life, caring for families, supporting children and the elderly. A civilization of death authorizes the killing of unborn human beings, condones the killing of the elderly and encourages people to live only in their own interest. A culture of life is the one with eternal and timeless values.”

Don Feder (1946) writer; Media consultant

Is Formal Marriage Out of Fashion? Interview with Communications Director of the World Congress of Families Don Feder https://youth-time.eu/don-feder-communications-director-of-the-world-congress-of-families/ (November 15, 2014)

Richard Feynman photo

“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered; the attitude that all is uncertain; to summarize it — the humility of the intellect. The other great heritage is Christian ethics — the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual — the humility of the spirit.
These two heritages are logically, thoroughly consistent. But logic is not all; one needs one's heart to follow an idea. If people are going back to religion, what are they going back to? Is the modern church a place to give comfort to a man who doubts God — more, one who disbelieves in God? Is the modern church a place to give comfort and encouragement to the value of such doubts? So far, have we not drawn strength and comfort to maintain the one or the other of these consistent heritages in a way which attacks the values of the other? Is this unavoidable? How can we draw inspiration to support these two pillars of western civilization so that they may stand together in full vigor, mutually unafraid? Is this not the central problem of our time?”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm

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Robert Menzies photo

“The highest production and living standards cannot be achieved without a new and human spirit in the industrial world. No industry can succeed without the co-operation of capital, management and labour. Each must be encouraged. Each must be fairly rewarded. Between the three there must be mutual understanding and respect.”

Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia

1949 election campaign speech https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1949-robert-menzies, delivered in Melbourne on November 10, 1949
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)

David Cay Johnston photo

“We are encouraged to think of acts of police violence more or less in isolation, to consider them as unique, unrelated occurrences. We ask ourselves always, “What went wrong?””

Kristian Williams (1974) American historian

and for answers we look to the seconds, minutes, or hours before the incident. Perhaps this leads us to fault the individual officer, perhaps it leads us to excuse him. Such thinking, derived as it is from legal reasoning, does not take us far beyond the case in question. And thus, such inquiries are rarely very illuminating. The shooting of Oscar Grant, the beating of Rodney King, the arrest of Marquette Frye, the killing of Arthur McDuffie — any of these may be explained in terms of the actions and attitudes of the particular officers at the scene, the events preceding the violence (including the actions of the victims), and the circumstances in which the officers found themselves. Indeed, juries and police administrators have frequently found it possible to excuse police violence with such explanations. The unrest that followed these incidents, however, cannot be explained in such narrow terms. To understand the rioting, one must consider a whole range of related issues, including the conditions of life in the Black community, the role of the police in relation to that community, and the history and pattern of similar abuses. If we are to understand the phenomenon of police brutality, we must get beyond particular cases. We can better understand the actions of individual police officers if we understand the institution of which they are a part. That institution, in turn, can best be examined if we have an understanding of its origins, its social function, and its relation to larger systems like capitalism and white supremacy.
Rights, riots and police brutality, 2020

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“I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion, — if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society (17 August 1876), as quoted in "Mr. Gladstone On Cottage Gardening", The Times (18 August 1876), p. 9
1870s

“Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.”

Thuy Trang (1973–2001) Vietnamese actress (1973-2001)

Power Rangers Unlimited: Thuy Trang Interview https://myriahac.tripod.com/id8.html (December 24, 1994)

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“Young women deserve a province that encourages them to take on leadership roles without fear of sexism. If we want more young women, and more people of colour to enter politics, we must commit to creating environments that respect that.”

Bowinn Ma (1985) Canadian politician

City News 1130 https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/10/12/bowinn-ma-questions-bc-liberal-party-leadership-after-sexist-comments-in-video/, City News 1130: Bowinn Ma questions BC Liberal Party leadership after sexist comments in video, October 11, 2020

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“What encourages me? That I've been right so many times.”

Filip Dewinter (1962) Flemish politician

INTERVIEW. Filip Dewinter: “What encourages me? That I've been right so many times." https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20180919_03762175

Ren Zhengfei photo

“It’s possible that having a strong competitor would encourage us to compete better.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Interview with CNBC (October 4, 2019)

Constance Wu photo

“Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.”

Constance Wu (1982) American actress

As quoted in "Fresh Off the Boat Star: I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever" in Time Magazine (10 February 2015) https://time.com/3696111/fresh-off-the-boat-constance-wu/

Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo photo

“The church does not encourage clashes but harmony, based on a principle that must guide the world going forward, as there is no other possible way. This principle is that of solidarity.”

Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (1954) Catholic bishop

Brazil’s top bishop: Without solidarity, Brazil could become new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/18/brazils-top-bishop-without-solidarity-brazil-could-become-new-epicenter (May 18, 2020)

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“The only path to take to placate violence is dialogue. Only then will we be able to isolate these extremist groups and become a tolerant country. Now we must seek to be close to our small community and give ourselves strength and encouragement.”

Basile Georges Casmoussa (1938) Catholic bishop

Anti-Christian attacks in Iraq part of brutal strategy, says archbishop https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/17865/anti-christian-attacks-in-iraq-part-of-brutal-strategy-says-archbishop (30 November 2009)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe photo

“Encourage the beautiful, the useful will take care of itself.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

widely attributed to Goethe without citation from the works of Goethe
Disputed

Vajiralongkorn photo

“I want the unity shown here with this goodwill to be an encouraging sign for everybody, all sides to perform their duties for the prosperity of our country.”

Vajiralongkorn (1952) King of Thailand

Source: "Thai King praises 'unity' in speech on final coronation day" in Rappler https://www.rappler.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-king-speech-final-coronation-day-may-6-2019 (6 May 2019)

Bhumibol Adulyadej photo

“It is highly important to encourage and help people inearning their living and supporting themselves with adequatemeans, because those who are gainfully employed andself-supporting are capable of contributing definitelytowards higher levels of development.”

Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927–2016) King of Thailand

Source: "Speech given at the ceremony of conferring degrees at Kasetsart University" http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:usILNxurwOMJ:www.rdpb.go.th/UploadNew/Documents/f55969e3-1f51-4d73-90cf-d201f4f69a67_2.%2520Royal%2520Dev%2520Principles_Booklet.pdf+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (18 July 1974)

“The local Catholic Church here, together with other religions present in Thailand, we have sought to offer our contribution encouraging our people to pray, promoting dialogue with everyone, educating to legality and social justice and morality in social and political activity.”

Louis Chamniern Santisukniram (1942) Archbishop of Thailand

Source: “Social injustice and corruption at the root of the crisis”: President of Thai Bishops' Conference tells Fides http://www.fides.org/en/news/26621-ASIA_THAILAND_Social_injustice_and_corruption_at_the_root_of_the_crisis_President_of_Thai_Bishops_Conference_tells_Fides (6 May 2010)

Liu Wen (model) photo

“My responsibility as a supermodel is to put fame aside and use my actions to encourage those who might need support, so that others also feel motivated on their own journeys.”

Liu Wen (model) (1988) Chinese model

Source: "Liu Wen opens up about fame, responsibility and finding meaning in her career" in Vogue https://vogue.sg/liu-wen-cover-vogue-singapore-leslie-zhang/ (1 March 2021)

Volodymyr Viytyshyn photo

“One of the missions of the underground priests was to encourage these people and to tell them that yes, we're suffering, but we're doing this for Christ. That's why the Church survived; people were humans, in all the best sense of the word.”

Volodymyr Viytyshyn (1959) Polish archbishop

Source: In becoming a priest, you were agreeing to be a martyr https://osvnews.com/2018/08/15/underground-period-marks-ukrainian-church/ (15 August 2018)

Arthur C. Clarke photo

“You know, we’re not used to secrecy up here. It’s not encouraged. We all have to work together to keep alive. Secrecy is corrosive, Professor, bad for morale.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)

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“I wanted to encourage local people to love the environment and the best way to do so was to lead by example. I tried hard.”

Samuel Oton Sidin (1954) 21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop

Source: Priest receives top environmental award https://www.ucanews.com/news/priest-receives-top-environmental-award/52279 (6 June 2012)

“The government strongly and firmly encourages everyone to get vaccinated (against COVID-19 virus). We have enough doses for everyone.”

Manaouda Malachie politician in Cameroon

Source: Manaouda Malachie (2021) cited in " Fears, suspicion cloud vaccine takeup in Cameroon https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2021/12/750479/fears-suspicion-cloud-vaccine-takeup-cameroon" on The Straits Times, 1 December 2021.

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Fridolin Ambongo Besungu photo

“It has always been important for the Capuchins to encourage lay people to take an active part in the Church and in effect we have many local lay Catholics in the Franciscan Tertiary Order. This is very encouraging for us because the collaboration of well-prepared lay people is necessary for the apostolate.”

Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (1960) Congolese theologian and catholic cardinal

Source: AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “I am grateful to the Pope for this act of confidence in me” the newly appointed Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela in Congo told Fides http://www.fides.org/en/news/3549-AFRICA_DEMOCRATIC_CONGO_I_am_grateful_to_the_Pope_for_this_act_of_confidence_in_me_the_newly_appointed_Bishop_of_Bokungu_Ikela_in_Congo_told_Fides (6 April 2020)

“People to know that the Holy Land also belongs to them and they can always go. Because people are afraid, but when they go and then come back afterwards, they realize that nothing happened. The idea here is for them to know the meaning of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to encourage them to see it.”

Kamal Hanna Bathish (1931) Israeli-Arab Roman Catholic bishop

Source: Bishop of Jerusalem encourages Spaniards to go on pilgrimage to Holy Land https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/1735/bishop-of-jerusalem-encourages-spaniards-to-go-on-pilgrimage-to-holy-land (12 August 2004)

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“Unless the French are thoroughly reduced, no solid peace can be obtained, and no attempt ought to be encouraged of opening a negotiation, which even has the effect of destroying all energy in those who ought to look forward to the continuance of war.”

George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820) King of Great Britain and King of Ireland

Source: Letter to Lord Grenville (25 October 1795), quoted in The Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq, Volume III (1899), p. 143

Pema Chödron photo

“We all need to be reminded and encouraged to relax with whatever arises and bring whatever we encounter to the path.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)

Sergey Lavrov photo

“In many Western countries, everyday Russophobia has become of an unprecedented nature, and, to our great regret, is encouraged by government circles in a number of countries.”

Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister

"West has declared ‘total war’ on Russia: Lavrov" https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ukraines-zelensky-accuses-russia-of-genocide-in-donbas-onslaught-174101, Hurriyet Daily news, 27 May 2022
About the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022

Roy Hattersley photo

“Diversity was the encouragement of people to live together in harmony despite their differences and rejoice in the differences rather than deplore them.”

Roy Hattersley (1932) British Labour Party politician, published author and journalist

Interview for " Rivers of Blood http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Rivers_of_Blood", BBC2 (8 March 2008), at 23:21

Gary Locke photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
John Dryden photo
Prevale photo

“There are special, rare people who you do not meet by chance, but arrive as a gift from heaven. They reach out to you to encourage you, to be there for you in fragile moments, in the instants when the world seems to collapse on you. These people are part of that thin space of life, defined wonder.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Esistono persone speciali, rare, che non si incontrano per caso, ma che arrivano come un dono dal cielo. Ti raggiungono per incoraggiarti, per esserti accanto nei momenti di fragilità, negli istanti in cui il mondo sembra crollarti addosso. Queste persone fanno parte di quel sottile spazio di vita, definito meraviglia.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Every day, choose who can distract you from bad thoughts, who has the power to encourage you with his gaze, who makes you happy with a smile, who can love your merits and your flaws. Who is able to warm your heart, at only her thought.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni giorno, scegli chi sa distrarti dai cattivi pensieri, chi ha il potere di incoraggiarti con il suo sguardo, chi ti rende felice con un sorriso, chi sa amare i tuoi pregi e i tuoi difetti. Chi è in grado di scaldarti il cuore, al solo suo pensiero.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Everyone has moments of fragility and the need for a person by their side to encourage them to face life and its difficulties. Everyone, no one excluded.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Tutti hanno momenti di fragilità e il bisogno di avere accanto una persona che li incoraggi ad affrontare la vita e le sue difficoltà. Tutti, nessuno escluso.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“True love makes you happy, gives smiles and encouraging the soul to face its fears.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: ​​Il vero amore rende felici, regala sorrisi ed incoraggia l'anima ad affrontare le sue paure.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Share your life with a person who gives you enchantments and smiles, encourages you to need, stimulates your enthusiasm and, above all, with a person who knows how to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Condividete la vostra vita con una persona che vi regala incanti e sorrisi, vi incoraggia al bisogno, stimola il vostro entusiasmo e, soprattutto, con una persona che sappia amare.
Source: prevale.net

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José Baroja photo

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

Prevale photo

“The ideal person revolutionises your life: encourages you, strengthens your ideas, your dreams, admires and esteems you, but above all rebels against any mistake you make.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona ideale rivoluziona la vostra vita: vi incoraggia, rafforza le vostre idee, i vostri sogni, vi ammira e vi stima, ma soprattutto si ribella ad ogni vostro errore.
Source: prevale.net