encouragement

n.

1. The act of encouraging.
2. The state of being encouraged.
3. One that encourages.

noun

1. Something that encourages: inspiration, motivation, stimulation. See help/harm/harmless.
2. Something that causes and encourages a given response: fillip, impetus, impulse, incentive, inducement, motivation, prod, push, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulator, stimulus. See cause/effect.

n

Definition: help, support
Antonyms: denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement

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IN BRIEF: The act of supporting or helping.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

Quotes:

"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living." - Booker T. Washington

"Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause." - Source Unknown

"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Source Unknown

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged." - Ovid

"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." - Sidney Madwed

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Elizabeth Harrison

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