Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Barbara Johnson

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Barbara Johnson

I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

Barbara Pym

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Ashley Jensen

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

Brian Tracy

Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one

Brian Tracy

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

Kim Fields

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

James E. Faust

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

Laila Ali

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

We really encourage people to work with their physicians to ensure that they indeed are good candidates.

We heard what we wanted to and we are encouraged that they are putting the patient first,

We had no space. Frankly, it encouraged more people to come up.

Ben Bernanke

A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.

Diana Ross

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

Diana Wynne Jones

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Billy Connolly

There's nothing better than a fight, especially when you're watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he's a big Jessie!

Bruce Lee

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Edward Young

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

Denis Waitley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Denis Waitley

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

Edward McKendree Bounds

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

Bertrand Russell

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Bertrand Russell

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

B. C. Forbes

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

Vera Wang

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Alexander Hamilton

There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

Albert Einstein

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Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah, I am glad to see him win, because I'm following right in his footsteps. It's kind of encouraged me, ... When I get as old as him, I might be able to do the same thing.

We are looking at this as a springboard into the Big East. I'm disappointed and obviously we're not happy with the outcome, but we're going to use this to get better, and I feel that we have. I am encouraged by our direction.