Encouraging Quotes - Page 10

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

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.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I can, therefore I am.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

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.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

The more you do, the more you can do.

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.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.