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“Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.”

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Author:Jennifer Granholm

“Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.”

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Author:Jim Evans

“We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Thank you, Governor [Sarah] Palin, for your endorsement. Because she got behind. She got behind us war-weary folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it. And she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.”

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Author:Christine O'Donnell

“I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”

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Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.”

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Book:The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently

Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently

“So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.”

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Book:Silver Boxes: The Gift of Encouragement

Source: Silver Boxes: The Gift of Encouragement

“The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.”

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Book:The Forgotten

Source: The Forgotten

“Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers. I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.”

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Author:Stephanie Nielson

“The stuff of imagination is not simply to let one’s mind run wild with things grand, magical and altogether wonderful. Rather, the stuff of imagination is recognizing the responsibility that one has to seize those things with all of one’s might and to wrestle them back into this world. And we must do that not only because this is where they belong, but more importantly, this is where they are needed.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough