Quotes: Encouragement

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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Songs don’t just come out of the air. They take time, but it’s good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Andy Gibb

British-Australian singer (1958-1988)

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

John Charles Polanyi

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

A. E. van Vogt

Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912-2000)

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749-1832)

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

Harold Bloom

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930-2019)

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Elias Hicks

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

Thuy Trang

Vietnamese actress (1973-2001)

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Kevin Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

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