Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Morgan

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Tom Smith

We view the split as a modestly positive factor because a lower price-per-share should encourage a wider, more stable ownership base.

We don't want to encourage people to swing from the fences, ... If we're talking investment, we're talking longer-term.

We will encourage him to stay, regardless of the personal hardship he would be put through (by a retrial).

Kurt Vonnegut

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

David Jeremiah

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

David Jeremiah

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

David E. Kelley

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

David Elkind

Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.

David Baldacci

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

David Berg

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

David O. McKay

There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

David O. McKay

Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

David O. McKay

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

Dannii Minogue

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

Daisaku Ikeda

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Dan Davis

Our focus must always be on building people up.

We had a 25-year high settlement price and that encouraged some profit-taking.

Billy Graham

If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.

Billy Graham

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.

Try to encourage them to vote in our favor because they are protected by the law to do what they're doing.

As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled.

Maya Angelou

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Iqbal Quadir

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Italo Calvino

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Don Kardong

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

Everywhere you move, there's something to do. We encourage people to spend the entire day or several hours there.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Charles Spurgeon

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Marco Rubio

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

We need to figure out if we want vending in Athens, are we trying to encourage it, or do we want to get rid of it?

We neither condone, nor encourage participating in this type of activity. It is inconsistent with our brand.

I was once told the fair comes to town once a year, and it's already come and gone. I would just encourage students to get their voice out at every opportunity they have.