Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Jane Austen

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Damian Marley

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

Anthony Michael Hall

That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

Albert Ellis

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

Sigourney Weaver

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

C. S. Lewis

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Bryant H. McGill

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Denis Hayes

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Ann Landers

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Tariq Ramadan

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Alanna Ubach

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Blaise Pascal

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Brother Lawrence

It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.

Charles Bukowski

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Edward Abbey

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..