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I have never
seen people who could do
real work
except under the stimulus of
encouragement
and enthusiasm and the
approval of the
people
for whom they
are working.
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Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is
often
a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Robert Martin
Giving
encouragement to others is a most welcome gift,
for the
results of it are
lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.
Florence
Littauer
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The truth is that
everything that can be accomplished
by showing a person when he or she is wrong, ten times
as much
can be accomplished by showing them where they are right. The reason we don't do it so often
is
that it's more
fun to throw a rock through a window
than to put in a pane of glass.
Robert T. Allen
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We
flourish under the benefits of encouragement, praise, approval, and
acceptance. If we live with encouragement--especially our own--we learn
to be confident. If we live with self-praise, we learn
to appreciate what's
around us. If we coexist with self-approval,
we're more likely to give ourselves--and others-- a little slack.
Leslie
Levine
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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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Whether
or not we realize it each of us has within the ability to set
some
kind of example for people. Knowing this, would you rather
be
the one known for being the one who encouraged others,
or the
one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?
Josh Hinds
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So often we think that to be encouragers we have
to produce
great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables
of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can
often provide much needed comfort.
Florence Littauer
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Correction
does much, but encouragement
does more.
Encouragement after censure
is as the sun after a shower.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our workaday lives are filled with
opportunities to bless
others. The power
of a single glance or an encouraging
smile
must never be
underestimated.
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You are not likely to bring out the
best in people or nurture their creativity
if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution.
Encourage people to look for their own solutions--and project
the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.
Nathaniel Branden
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Something
I realized a few years ago in one of those "Of course--I should have
realized that all along!" moments is that encouragement is absolutely
free. It doesn't
cost me a cent to give it out, but its payoff is incredible. A
brighter smile, improved
performance on any sort of task, much more enjoyment in doing something--I
see these
in people constantly when I or someone else encourages them. I often
read stories by
adults who have succeeded in life largely in part because just one person
saw their
potential and encouraged them when they were younger, and they have never
forgotten those people or their words. Wouldn't you love to feel
that something
like that would be possible with you as the remembered person? I
know
that I would, but unless I plant the seeds today, that sort
of harvest will never come to pass.
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People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to
be--
not what you nag them to be.
Scudder N. Parker |
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There are high spots in
all of our lives and most of them have
come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't
care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman
may be, each hungers for applause.
George M. Adams
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The
finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no
one gets
the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If
everyone
received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most
everyone
would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the
wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison,
Schweitzer,
Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
Sidney
Madwed
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Encouragement
is being a good listener, being positive, letting others
know you accept them for who they are. It is offering hope,
caring about the feelings of another, understanding.
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There is nourishment from being encouraged and helped up by
others when we are weak. We are nourished from feedback
from friends whom we trust and who will be honest with us.
Rich G. Buhler |
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Note how
good you feel after you have encouraged
someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that
one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George M. Adams
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me,
and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not
forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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A
word of encouragement during a failure is worth
more than an hour of praise after success.
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Nine tenths of
education is encouragement.
Anatole France |
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Those who are
lifting the world upward and onward are those
who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
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Tell your child,
your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid or dumb
at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you
have destroyed
almost all incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite
technique--be liberal
with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other
person
know that you have faith in his or her ability to do it, that the person
has an
undeveloped flair for it--and that person will practice until the dawn
comes in
the window in order to excel.
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Who do you
spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround
yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is
too important for anything less.
Steve Goodier |
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Sometimes
we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through
our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.
Deborah L. Parker
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Encouraging others
can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness.
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If all we
ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids
will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we
offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they
won't need our approval; they'll approve of themselves.
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To
encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat
dragons.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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My dad encouraged
me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am
about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to
tell
me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great
power
in my own dad telling me it’s possible.
I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it.
Dan Pearce
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