Famous Quotes & Sayings

All military events are always free, but there are limited seats. We encourage people to get those picked up as soon as they possibly can.

Eric Hoffer

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

Emmet Fox

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

Napoleon Hill

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

Napoleon Bonaparte

The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit

Orison Swett Marden

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

O. Henry

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

Michael Flynn

Students who come to Hastings need to know that they can engage, that they can be part of an educational facility that does not encourage this sort of discriminatory behavior.

Mike Riley

It's been a long time since he's competed, but I'm very encouraged by it. Marcel had a good feel for it from the minute he walked in here, and he still has it.

It's quite an accomplishment. We just encourage him to do his best. Each year, it (the competition) gets harder and harder.

The officer put a hand on the student's shoulder to encourage him to sit down. Then the student punched the officer in the face.

Even with encouragement for healthy alternatives, some parents seem to like traditional treats.

That may sound weird, but I'm the kind of person that if people are going through something then I want to go through it too. I don't want them to be hurt by themselves. I want to encourage them or make them stronger.

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

It's been tough out there getting to the net with the hooking and the holding and the slashes that goes on as you're trying to get there. We just encourage our guys to keep their feet moving and then they'll get rewarded, which they did tonight.

It seemed like the right way to run the company, ... We encourage everyone to advance. It was the people that made it special. They never complained about hard work.

Michael Redd

It's very important that we make it to the playoffs and that we pick our game up in these next 19 games. The intensity goes up and we've got to pick it up. It is new (to many of the Bucks). You just try to encourage them and tell them what's going on. I've been involved in the playoffs three times and it's a challenge.

They can always stay in their homes, even if we encourage them to leave,

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

It's a lot of fun. We really encourage people to come out.

Ann Widdecombe

where hard-working people keep more of their own money, where we encourage enterprise and prosperity.

R. A. Torrey

It is true that He does sometimes require of us things that to others seem hard. But when the will is once surrendered, the revolutionized life plans become just the plans that are most pleasant, and the things that to others seem hard, are just the things that are easiest and most delightful. Do not let Satan deceive you into being afraid of God's plans for your life.

John Gray

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.

Julia Cameron

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

Patti Smith

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

Martha Beck

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

Paul Harvey

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Paul Hawken

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Jud Wilhite

I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

Knute Rockne

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

Murray Rothbard

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Mike Dooley

Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You'll be surprised at how many voices you'll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.