Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Lin

Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jim Abbott

I benefited from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me even when I didn't always believe in myself.

Jill Abramson

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Jesse Helms

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Jean Houston

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

Christopher Lasch

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

George Carey

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

Christopher Eccleston

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

Christine O'Donnell

Thank you, Governor [Sarah] Palin, for your endorsement. Because she got behind. She got behind us war-weary folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it. And she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.

George Washington Carver

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

George Washington

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

George Washington

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

George Porter

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

Felix Adler

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

Fanny Burney

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

Francis Bacon

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Harper Lee

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

Harper Lee

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Howard Gardner

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Bill Cowher

He's an integral part of what we do. So, I'm every encouraged by his situation.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

Jonathan Knight

Everybody encourages everybody else. You can still have an impact even when you don't get into the game every night.

Every online message encourages me and serves as new support for me to do better.

The most important thing we can do is to encourage all of our students to take rigorous coursework.

Alan Keyes

Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should not only tolerate it, we should encourage that kind of debate.

Once we had this program ready and heard some encouragement from a professor, we thought this would be a great thing to go with.

Dan Bucatinsky

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

Sometimes we get none and sometimes we get a lot. We encourage it every month. We always let people know they can talk to the commission.

Chris Van Allsburg

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

Mike Thibault

That's why it's a five-game series. I was encouraged by how we bounced back in the second half and got it back to a game.

Tony Allen

This was a tragic event and I would encourage people to help in any way possible.