Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

We're very encouraged. Our members are speaking out very loudly in huge numbers, they understand what is at stake. This is the year that the state needs to do it.

Even with encouragement for healthy alternatives, some parents seem to like traditional treats.

Students that receive encouragement (from their parents) to participate in a program that they're interested in are more likely to succeed,

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise

Didier Drogba

This is the reward of all my hard work, but also a sign of encouragement that I can still get better. I know that I am capable.

They're encouraged. Some of them felt they did not wrestle as they hoped, but they're working hard.

Ben Gordon

They're a little experienced at this. I don't think they need encouragement from us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Harold Bloom

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

Greg Norman

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

Graham Nash

My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.

Kirk Kerkorian

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Karl Pearson

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

Julia Cameron

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

Murray Rothbard

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Mike Dooley

Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You'll be surprised at how many voices you'll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

George Herbert

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Gary Gygax

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

Francis Quarles

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

Winston Churchill

I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me.

Erich Fromm

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

Hillary Clinton

At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

Hillary Clinton

I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.

Jack Kerouac

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

Gwen Moore

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

He's on his way. We're just so encouraged. Wow. We feel like he has jumped over a major hurdle.

It's more of an encouragement thing. There's no money, but it tells you you're on your way to do great things.

Jonah Lehrer

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.