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"What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager asked her mother. "Encouragement, dear," she replied.

I will not wish thee riches, nor the glow of greatness,
but that wherever thou go some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile,
or shadowed life know sunshine for a while.
And so thy path shall be a track of light,
like angels' footsteps passing through the night.
(words on a church wall in Upwaltham England)
One kind word can warm three winter months.-Japanese proverb

The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up. Ernest Blevins

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.-Leo Buscaglia

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.
Jerome P. Fleishman

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. --Edmund Gibson

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Take heart therefore, O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who hath appointed you his own Son, General of the field, called 'the Captain of our salvation,' Heb 2:10. WILLIAM GURNALL

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.... Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. Jesse Jackson.

A Compliment is verbal sunshine. -Robert Orben (1927 - ____)

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato (427BC-347BC)

What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. --Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) _Pollyanna_ [1912]

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism." - Charles M. Schwab

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.... Henry David Thoreau

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. --Zig Ziglar