Encouraged Quotes
539 Encouraged quotes by 484 unique authors
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
— Malala Yousafzai
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My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged…
— Kit Harington
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I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made…
— Sharon Creech
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I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the…
— Sarah Waters
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
— Jack Kilmer
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My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
— Bonnie Tyler
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I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals…
— Al Jarreau
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My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from…
— Raven Goodwin
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother…
— Dale T. Mortensen
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I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment,…
— Willard Boyle
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Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
— Andrew Forrest
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I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I…
— Robin Wright
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
— S. Truett Cathy
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read…
— David Gross
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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could…
— Ellen Willis
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
— Philip Levine
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I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries…
— Stuart Appleby
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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
— Elliott Carter
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And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that…
— William Joyce
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I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
— Nigel Dennis
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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
— Ludwig Quidde
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I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow…
— Frederick Reines
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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It…
— Ben Stiller
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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists…
— Paul Berg
Who Wrote These Encouraged Quotes
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