Quotes on Encouragement

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.