Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michelle Bachelet

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

James Allen

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Plato

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Paul Weller

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

Lauryn Hill

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Lance Armstrong

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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.

Paulo Coelho

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

Steve Jobs

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Susanna Moodie

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Stephen King

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Steve Martin

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Rhonda Byrne

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

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.

Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Sam Walton

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

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.

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.

Katherine Mansfield

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

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Hayley Williams

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.