Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Henry David Thoreau

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

Jennifer Granholm

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

George S. Patton

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

Jim Harrison

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Hugh Miller

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

George Bernard Shaw

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Ken Hensley

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Grace Slick

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

Joyce Carol Oates

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Mary Pickford

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Paulo Coelho

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Jim Rohn

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Elizabeth George

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Joel Osteen

You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.

Leo Buscaglia

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Joseph Campbell

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

Joyce Meyer

Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.

Joyce Meyer

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

Nelson Mandela

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Pam Brown

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

Isak Dinesen

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Katherine Mansfield

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Scott Hamilton

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Seth Godin

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

Michael Morpurgo

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Miranda Kerr

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.