Top 695 Encourage Quotes

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I’m glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
Ellie Goulding
I encourage everyone operating a motor vehicle to be cognizant and aware of motorcyclists while they are on our highways.
Jim Justice
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
Michael Steele
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn’t encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what’s best in my life, so if you’re dating someone who doesn’t want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn’t be dating them.
Veronica Roth
As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage the

As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don’t believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
Henry Paulson
If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I’ll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain’t one of them.
Bret Bielema
I encourage all men – and all women who love their men – to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
Mandy Patinkin
I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.
Anthony Hamilton
I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.
Stellan Skarsgard
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
Ted Deutch
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation’s lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.
Jerry Costello
The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate about. For me it was Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts. For some people it’s soccer. Whatever it is, it gives you confidence and that will translate.
Eve Torres
Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter’s a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.
Elizabeth Banks
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats’ selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field each and every game. But when the team goes through rough patches, you’re there to encourage and cheer and believe that things will turn around.
Tim Hudson
I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she’d eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
Lesley Nicol
Whatever your interests or abilities, I encourage you stay active during the holiday season.
Julie Payette
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
Folorunsho Alakija
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation’s economic viability.
Jim Clyburn
Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called ‘Reporter’ about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.
Nicholas Kristof
If you’re too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you’re too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment – I support the Second Amendment – but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.
Jim Gray
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to ‘teach’ or ‘convert’ people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a ‘therapist’ in the pulpit.
Robert H. Schuller
I’m very fortunate to have a husband and friends and family that are super supportive of my career in all aspects. I do so many different things, it’s really nice to have a support network that includes him and my parents and my friends that encourage me to continue to work towards whatever it is that I want to do.
Franchesca Ramsey
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Mary Garden
I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I’m not really attached to a label.
O. T. Fagbenle
Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.
Eric Metaxas
New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.
Melanie Martinez
I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people’s perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.
Ashton Sanders
There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don’t want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.
Steven Adler
For me, ‘Come and See’ is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
Rhys Ifans
I just want to encourage you all… to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I’m hearing.
Jeff Duncan
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
George Washington Carver
We want to be the face of women's football, to encourag

We want to be the face of women’s football, to encourage young girls to play. If I have to be recognised in the streets to encourage them, I’m happy to do that.
Fran Kirby
It’s always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.
Prince Charles
The things you’re passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history – the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.
Megan Smith
I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, ‘Sing, sing,’ and I was in a choir in church, yes.
Tab Hunter
I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.
Giuliana Rancic
Comfort is of great importance to me. I really want to encourage girls to dress in whatever they feel comfortable in and not get bogged down by fashion trends.
Deepika Padukone
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it’s best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
Henry Reed
I want to encourage more people in small villages to take up sports.
Sangram Singh
To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.
Joseph Stiglitz
I encourage everyone out there to get involved.
Troy Vincent
You have to train managers to encourage their teams to be entrepreneurial.
Meena Harris
We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren’t being written for women and aren’t being produced and directed by women.
Trudie Styler
If you want to encourage some activity, make it easy.
Richard Thaler
I’m very interested in heritage restoration, and I’m working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.
Hugh Masekela
On a personal level, I probably wouldn’t want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training – they both go along. It keeps them fit.
Joe Calzaghe
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
Michael J. Saylor
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation’s traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
David Amram
As a physician concerned with the significant impact of obesity health, it is my mission to encourage children and adults to take control of their own lifestyle choices.
Margaret Cuomo
Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I’m trying to encourage others to resist as well.
Steve Easterbrook