If you seek to be a better leader, a better
parent, or a better friend, it is imperative that you learn to art of
encouragement. The following quotations should help.
Thoughts on Encouragement
"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing
you have to do is give them confidence they can."
George Foreman
"Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulations."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person:
he believed in me."
Jim Valvano
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after
censure is as the sun after a shower."
Goethe
"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never take away hope from any human being."
Olver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Great Leaders Are World
Class Encouragers
"The true leader inspires in others self-trust, guiding their eyes to the
spirit of the goal."
Bronson Alcott
"Never take away hope from any human being."
Olver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire."
Paul Dietzel
"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of
their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can
accomplish."
Sam Walton
Great Coaches Are Great
Encouragers
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be
rather than what they are."
Ara Parasheghian
"Once a year and athlete may be made insufferable by praise. Once a day a
truly deserving athlete may fall by the wayside for the want of it."
Bud Wilkinson
"A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better
than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He
lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And
once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything
less than your very best."
Reggie Jackson
"If you’re a positive person, you’re an automatic motivator. You can
get people to do things they don’t think they’re capable of."
Cotton Fitzsimmons
And Finally . . .
"When someone does
something good, applaud! You’ll make two people happy."
Samuel Goldwyn
This page was
written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
