25 Top Encouragement Quotes

These are 25 of the top encouragement quotes I have found in my research.

As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add creditability to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.

We all need encouragement. No matter how convicted or strong you are, you’ll face discouraging times as a person. Encouragement quotes talk about the need to understand the power of a simple encouragement because it will push a person beyond his challenges and achieve a breakthrough in their life. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate your team!

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25 Best
Encouragement Quotes


An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Bill Walsh

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Thomas Fuller

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
Russell Crowe

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done
or how many people have tried it before;
it's important to realize that whatever you're doing,
it's your first attempt at it.
Wally Amos

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
Patti Smith

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn

When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Never let the odds keep you from doingwhat you know in your heart you were meant to do.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius

Bonus Links
to Quotes


You will find more quotes about leadership and other aspects of leadership in the BONUS LINKS below. These are the top quotes about each aspect of leadership I have found and I recommend you use these quotes for your speeches and talks.

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Quotes about the having a great attitude.

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30 Top Vision Quotes
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30 Top Team Building Quotes
Quotes about building successful teams.

30 Top Change Quotes
Quotes about embracing change in life.

20 Top Integrity Quotes
Quotes about the need of integrity.

20 Top Self-Discipline Quotes
Quotes about disciplining oneself.

21 Top Passion Quotes
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21 Top Management Quotes
Quotes about management of people in organizations.

21 Top Leadership Quotes
Quotes about true effective leadership.

30 Top Dream Quotes
Quotes about the importance of dreams.

21 Top Education Quotes
Quotes about the value of education.

25 Top Encouragement Quotes
Quotes about the need to constant encourage others.

45 Top Failure Quotes
Quotes about using failure in your life to your advantage.

30 Top Freedom Quotes
Quotes about power of true freedom.

20 Top Faith Quotes
Quotes about the power of faith.

21 Top Honesty Quotes
Quotes about the importance of being honest.

20 Top Hope Quotes
Quotes about the power of hope.

30 Top Inspiring Quotes
Quotes about life that will inspire you.

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