It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Vince Lombardi
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.
Jennifer Grahnolm
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Donald Trump
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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
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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.
Paulo Coelho
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
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Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
Ed Sheeran
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Criss Jami
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows
Joel Osteen
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Zig Ziglar
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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. Maxwell
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If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
John C. Maxwell
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Dr. Martin Luther King
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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Give children encouragement, they will gain confidence, they will perform better.
M. K. Soni
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Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Robert Martin
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When you feel like giving up, like calling it quits, just try one more time – do that little bit more.
Catherine Pulsifer
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Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed
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If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Claude Bissell
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When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Author Unknown
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It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.
Wally Amos
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Col. Harland Sanders
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star.
Willis Reed
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
