Be Encouraged Quotes - Page 4

• Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Example, Hiv

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

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• The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Inspirational, Glasses, Flames

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.149

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• You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

  Adam Young

  Heart, Mountain, Realizing

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• Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

  Donald Miller

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.153, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men

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• I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Way, Welfare

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

  Antonin Scalia

  Stupid, Silly, Sake

  "Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend" by Daniel J. Hemel, www.thecrimson.com. September 29, 2004.

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• The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Kindness, Health

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.

  Pope John Paul II

  Past, People, Use

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• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Airplane, Men, Feet

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• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

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• Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.

  Kevin Smith

  Girl, Years, Vampire

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• I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and inspired that even in their circumstances to know that there is nothing God can't change.

  Nick Vujicic

  People, Different, Gone

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Criticism, Serious

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• I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, People, Favors

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• I think people should be encouraged that there are so many people in the press that want to participate.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And just as a practical matter, when we don't encourage voters to come out to the polls, the people who stay home quickest are black and brown folk.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Home, People, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  John Locke

  Children, Ignorance, Curiosity

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

  Ruth Stout

  Ignorance, Bliss, Should

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Way, Elude

  Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”

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• The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Brain, Female, Needs

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• I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Heart, Broken, Would Be

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and to have hope because things can get better. Make good decisions, stop making bad ones, because we have to take responsibility too. But make good decisions and really the future will be a lot better for your kids - and yourself.

  Michele Bachmann

  Kids, Responsibility, Decision

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