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.

B.C. Forbes

  

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

  

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.  Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   

Our workaday lives are filled with opportunities to bless others.
The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.

G. Richard Rieger

   
   
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

   
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
   
   

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.

tom walsh

   

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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
 

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

  
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 him where he or she is 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

   
 

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward
are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

 

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

   

   

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

   
    

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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