If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of people laughing by at least one.

Joe Harsel

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Robert Martin

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

It's a great encouragement for us.

Jiri Hromada

It is a very great encouragement to the students as well as the faculty.

Peter Yang

It was a gift of hope and encouragement.

Dan Harding

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

Katharine Butler Hathaway

You can't get much of the encouragement from the doctors because they are a lot of the times looking at stage 4 as a terminal one, not as a chronic one.

Suzanne Lindley

I got pictures of Levi warming up, and yelled encouragement to him.

John Cushman

I don't have the money to take home, but I did get a lot of encouragement. I'm optimistic.

Mark Peters

The problem with this is the encouragement and glorification laws which are coming in today are too broad.

Doug Jewell

It's good that he's here for us. It's real encouragement to know that he's cheering us on.

James Rahon

There is nothing in this election that is an encouragement for the business community. You couldn't have gotten much worse of a result.

Paul Young

It's more of an encouragement thing. There's no money, but it tells you you're on your way to do great things.

Ashley Hubbard

I saw that as encouragement.

Chris Conger

People need encouragement to take action.

Joe Vitale

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

I think the biggest thing is encouragement. We need to find encouragement about what we're doing and why we're doing it.

Stan James

An expression of no-encouragement.

Ernest Bramah