Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Robbins

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Max Lucado

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Doug Wilson

The games I've watched have been exciting. You can see the fans enjoying it. The new rules really encourage fast, fundamental play and punish mediocrity. That's what you want to see as a player.

Norman Vincent Peale

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

Jonah Lehrer

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Joyce Carol Oates

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Joyce Carol Oates

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

Phil McGraw

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Phil McGraw

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Paulo Coelho

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Peter Singer

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Marshall

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Plutarch

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

Pope Benedict XVI

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

Nathaniel Branden

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Joyce Meyer

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

Paul Kane

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Paul Di Filippo

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

Pope John Paul II

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

James Lecesne

The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

Erik Erikson

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

John H. Johnson

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

John Dewey

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

Leo Buscaglia

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

Joseph Story

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.

Joshua Lederberg

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

John Kehoe

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

Lil' Kim

It was a very emotional dinner. Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Lisa Whelchel

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

Lord Chesterfield

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

Malcolm Fraser

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Mahatma Gandhi

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action