Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

If there is any way through this process that we can help those farmers and ranchers stay on the farm or on the ranch I would encourage that.

John Williams

It has to be gotten rid of or reduced to encourage business.

It encourages the whole family get involved with the program.

I'm one happy man right now. I can't tell you how much I appreciated my wife, Joyce, and my family's loyalty and love. Without their strength, encouragement and support I don't know if I would have made it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.

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.

Gary Chapman

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.

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,

The immigration reform we support would encourage illegal aliens to come out of the shadows and extend to them the legal rights other workers enjoy now.

The immediate impression is that the inflation report is pretty neutral, and it does little to encourage the view that the MPC could trim rates in the immediate future.

A greenway is a public place. We need to encourage people to be responsible and courteous. 99 percent of people are responsible. The one percent who aren't will ruin it.

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

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.

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.

All the things we've been through this year, under the circumstance, I wanted to thank the team, hug them. I encouraged them to go back and be students. You can't just stop your life.

The girls play well together. And they never get down on each other. When another teammate makes an error, the other players go and encourage that team member.

The goal is to encourage students to try NJ Transit as their primary mode of transportation and hopefully stick with it when they enter the workforce.

Doug Wilson

The games I've watched have been exciting. You can see the fans enjoying it. The new rules really encourage fast, fundamental play and punish mediocrity. That's what you want to see as a player.

All military events are always free, but there are limited seats. We encourage people to get those picked up as soon as they possibly can.

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.