Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

Stanley Tucci

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

Tea Obreht

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

Marcus Aurelius

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

Thomas a Kempis

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

Tony Robbins

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Tony Robbins

You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head

Tony Benn

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

Rick Allen

If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play

Tilda Swinton

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

Tim Allen

All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

Reggie Watts

Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.

Thuy Trang

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

Tacitus

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

Rumi

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Stephen Covey

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

Tony Dungy

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

Tony Dungy

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

Tony Dungy

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

Sigourney Weaver

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Shakti Gawain

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Scarlett Thomas

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Les Brown

The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.

Les Brown

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Laura Bush

I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to them so naturally. It wasn't forced. This is their character, and it's a big advantage I have, being raised by people like this, having a secure and stable life, and a lot of love and encouragement.

Therese of Lisieux

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.