Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Andrews

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

Tess Gerritsen

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us.

Ann Widdecombe

where hard-working people keep more of their own money, where we encourage enterprise and prosperity.

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah, I am glad to see him win, because I'm following right in his footsteps. It's kind of encouraged me, ... When I get as old as him, I might be able to do the same thing.

We are looking at this as a springboard into the Big East. I'm disappointed and obviously we're not happy with the outcome, but we're going to use this to get better, and I feel that we have. I am encouraged by our direction.

Kevin Hall

We're encouraged that they put forth a plan that recognizes the need for considerable new spending on transportation.

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

We're encouraged by the company's results, particularly after reporting somewhat disappointing November sales.

Bill Rancic

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Craig T. Nelson

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

We're not trying in any way to encourage or promote migration. The only thing we're trying to do is warn (immigrants) of the risks they face and where to get water, so they don't die.

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Adrian Rogers

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

Adora Svitak

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Abraham Maslow

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

Alexander Hamilton

There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

Albert Einstein

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We are always encouraged when players say they want to join Liverpool.

Aaron Levie

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

John Ashcroft

The defendants effectively rewarded past -- and encouraged future -- suicide bombings,

A. E. van Vogt

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Agatha Christie

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

Vera Wang

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Ansel Elgort

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.