Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Alan Chambers

And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.

Alan Chambers

t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Alda

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

David Amram

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

David McCullough

We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

David Kim

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

David Rudisha

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

Byron Katie

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Bryan Stevenson

I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.

Camille Paglia

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

Caitlin Moran

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

Cheryl Richardson

It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

Charles Rangel

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Natasha Trethewey

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Bill Gates

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

We're honored to have been able to do our small part for those who are doing so much. We can only hope that this work motivates Americans to let their words of encouragement and support be heard by those a world away.

Keeley Hawes

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Bill Murray

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Celeste Holm

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

We want to reach out to those kids who are having a hard time, ... We encourage them to talk to someone, a teacher, counselor, principal, anyone.

The point is, let's encourage America's families to save for education.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. That gives me encouragement about our economy.

Pat Barry

We're going to encourage people to visit a lot of places so we can pack the streets.

Donald Rumsfeld

What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people,

When we encourage kids to drink, we're putting them at risk of dying.

Andrew Forrest

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

Jimmy Johnson

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.