Quotes on Encouragement

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.