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. MaxwellI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas JeffersonA toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotThere is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.
Oscar WildeI don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma GandhiI’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.
Billy GrahamIf everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘
John WayneEvery blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo CoelhoOne who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao TzuThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonUntil you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon HillApplause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale CarnegieThe people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.
George BestIt is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
James BaldwinApple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve JobsThe first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador DaliIt disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareI’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.
Angelina JolieSome people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
Conor McGregorWhen I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.
George BestTechnology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Bill GatesYou might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLife is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob MarleyTo God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
HeraclitusLive your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David ThoreauMy general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘
Richard BransonWe must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David ThoreauThere will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.
DrakeDon’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald ReaganNo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel JohnsonOh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.
Abraham LincolnI always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.
Mark ZuckerbergNever complain. Never explain.
Katharine HepburnEncouragement 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 OsteenYou all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
Dan QuayleA dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar WildeThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
Dave GrohlWe cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert SchweitzerSo many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenLove is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo CoelhoA good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.
Joel OsteenI have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.
Michelle ObamaA first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham MaslowAge doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David BowieThings ain’t what they used to be and never were.
Will RogersFame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn MonroeI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David ThoreauThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
Joel OsteenI didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Haruki MurakamiSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfI see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.
Greta ThunbergWhat I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim CarreyThe good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.
Sunil ChhetriChanging is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat HanhRejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche