Top 133 Encourages Quotes

Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the problem is that most UK secondary schools don’t stretch good mathematicians and therefore fail to turn them into excellent mathematicians.
Simon Singh
I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I’m doing and noticing what I’m doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don’t jump right in and give you a note before you’ve had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.
Julia Stiles
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.
Mark Pagel
I don’t think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
Jim DeMint
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.
Lee Myung-bak
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
James Heckman
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
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
Michael J. Knowles
The overwhelming number of Democrats… think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.
Sherrod Brown
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons – it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.
Mark Skousen
In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It’s brave of him.
Marcia Gay Harden
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he’s really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He’s very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work.
Spencer Grammer
Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
Andrew Forrest
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrumen

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor Swift
‘HEAVN’ is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.
Jamila Woods
Not being given everything encourages you to create… That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
Ann Makosinski
Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.
Rachel Simmons
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg
I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
Jodi Benson
There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
David Byrne
Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.
Anthony Albanese
The growing demand for content across our platform delivers bigger payouts to our contributor base and encourages them to upload fresh content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business.
Jon Oringer
I am happy to play in the Premier League. It’s a competition which encourages players to give only their very best week in, week out and you have to be 100%.
Michael Ballack
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If my journey encourages and inspires people to never give up trying to do what they really want to do, I will be truly satisfied.
Sudha Chandran
I think it’s the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.
Chris de Burgh
Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
Maureen Chiquet
I don’t think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that’s always pushing you to think about your next thing.
Tony Hale
There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.
Douglas Coupland
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
Gloria Steinem
I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
Tim Ferriss
I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.
Angelina Jolie
The Miu Miu world is a very daring, fun and curious one that encourages and nurtures artists to develop who they are and what they do.
Stacy Martin
From the day I was elected, I began focusing on governing the best way I know how – transparently, openly, and in a way that encourages debate, dialogue and discussion on all sides of an issue.
Ned Lamont
We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health.
Luciana Berger
There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O’Rourke
Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
Viktor Orban
‘Giving 2.0’ frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.
Nina Turner
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
CeeLo Green
There’s no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter… It’s all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It’s a business which encourages people with dreams. That’s the essence of Hollywood.
Dawn Steel
It breaks my heart when I see young women swept up in today’s celebrity culture that encourages them to give themselves away for the sake of a few likes on social media.
Shannon Bream
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.
Virginia Postrel
As a parent, would you not endorse a decision by your child’s school, which encourages her to read a newspaper everyday? In fact, you would be even more approving if the prescribed newspaper was a leading national daily.
Sucheta Dalal
Rather than saying, 'I can't do this,' 'Sesame Street'

Rather than saying, ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘Sesame Street’ encourages us to say, ‘I can’t do this… yet!’ That one word changes everything. It emphasizes that your capability isn’t fixed. It highlights the reality that our brain is like a muscle.
Sal Khan
We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you’re really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you’re saying.
Justin Simien
Competition keeps you on your toes, encourages you to do better, so it’s actually a must for me.
Bhushan Kumar
If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
Eileen Pollack
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I don’t mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.
Logan Browning
Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.
Paul Wall
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
Julia Glass
The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.
Conor Lamb
I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.
Michael Dirda