God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.
Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
