Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Edith Schaeffer

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

Edith Sitwell

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

David Ricardo

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

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.

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.

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.

Ashley Jensen

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

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.

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.

Frederic Bastiat

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

We always encourage the owners to do it themselves. We don't really want to mow any lots.

We also target youth in schools as a preventive method. We talk to them about safe and unsafe behaviors. We encourage them to speak to their friends who may be on runaway status about practicing safe behaviors and finding a safe place so they won't be victimized on the street.

Denise Juneau

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

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.

Martin Freeman

There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I've never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I've thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally - that's really important.

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Steve Riley

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

Charlotte Bronte

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!