Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Bongo

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

O. Henry

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

Michel Gondry

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michael Josephson

Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

Theodore Roosevelt

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

John C. Maxwell

A word of Encouragement from a leader can #Inspire a person to reach her potential

Jack Welch

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

The hypocrisy factor has encouraged copycat techniques around the world by people who do like the U.S. does and has also weakened the United States as one of the traditional important supporters of human rights.

The enactment of the CESA legislative proposal is supported by the law enforcement community...and I strongly encourage its favorable consideration by Congress,

James Lecesne

The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

Erik Erikson

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

Norman Vincent Peale

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

John Templeton

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

John Piper

Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

Martin Luther

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Margaret Fuller

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

Michael Madsen

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

Ravi Zacharias

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

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.

Emmet Fox

Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.

Henry B. Eyring

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

Henry Hazlitt

The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement to production, employment, saving, and investment. And the way to do this is to maintain a free market and a sound currency.

Henry Ford

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

Mary Fallin

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement.

Paula Fox

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

Martin Ryle

In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.

John Tyler

If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

John Updike

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

John Updike

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Laurence Sterne

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.