c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
— Steve Allen
When I have too much information or too many choices, I often get confused.•	When one wants to encourage another to learn what ”I know that you don’t know,” encourage them to engage in deep thought on a topic you suggest. Deep thought is a positive activity that doesn’t blame and results in both a thinking process and outputs/outcomes that are positive.
— Dennis Cogswell
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— Parallel monologues are often what people offer each other when they are in the same place as another but not with another.•
Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance of leading to more discovery.•
— Dennis Cogswell
The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.
— Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
No conflict no story
— Antonio Nuñez Lopez, Storytelling en una semana
Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.
— Allen Guy Wilcox
If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict
— Antonio Nuñez Lopez, Storytelling en una semana
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
— Stephen Hawking
That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.
— Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity
The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.They just gain strength over time.
— Jessi Kirby, Moonglass
Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation name advertising. How else should one identify a force that debases language, drains thought, and undoes dignity? If the barrage of advertising, unchanged in its tone and texture, were devoted to some other purpose--say the exaltation of the public sector--it would be recognized in a moment for the corrosive element that it is. But as the voice of the private sector it escapes this startled notice. I mention it only to point out that a deep source of moral decay for capitalism arises from its own doings, not from that of its governing institutions.
— Robert L. Hellbroner
We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially incoherent. It brought into being a world of broken time and broken attention, to use Lewis Mumford's phrase. The principle strength of the telegraph was its capacity to move information, not collect it, explain it or analyze it. In this respect, telegraphy was the exact opposite of typography.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.
— Sydney J. Harris
You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common.
— Randy Pausch
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
— Carl Sagan
There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot.
— Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
— Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves, whilst making them work together to make a better world. It’s called Autism – and I can’t see anything wrong with it, can you? Boy I’m glad I also have this disability!
— Patrick Jasper Lee
Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn’t listening. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Steps to Better Relationships: Find More Balance with Others
Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.
— Scott Nicholson, The Manor
This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.
— Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.
— Travis Polso
We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists' communications may differ for different people reoriented the FCC* analysts from a concept of "content as shared" (Berelson would later say "manifest") to conditions that could explain the motivations of particular communicators and the interests they might serve. The notion of "preparatory propaganda" became an especially useful key for the analysts in their effort to infer the intents of broadcasts with political content. In order to ensure popular support for planned military actions, the Axis leaders had to inform; emotionally arouse, and otherwise prepare their countrymen and women to accept those actions; the FCC analysts discovered that they could learn a great deal about the enemy's intended actions by recognizing such preparatory efforts in the domestic press and broadcasts. They were able to predict several major military and political campaigns and to assess Nazi elites' perceptions of their situation, political changes within the Nazi governing group, and shifts in relations among Axis countries. Among the more outstanding predictions that British analysts were able to make was the date of deployment of German V weapons against Great Britain. The analysts monitored the speeches delivered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and inferred from the content of those speeches what had interfered with the weapons' production and when. They then used this information to predict the launch date of the weapons, and their prediction was accurate within a few weeks.*FCC - Federal Communications Commission
— Klaus H. Krippendorff, Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology
Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as "name-calling", employing "glittering generalities", "plain folks" identifications, "card stacking", "bandwagon" devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many religious and political speeches, even in academic lectures, and this approach to propaganda analysis led to a kind of witch-hunt for propagandists.
— Klaus H. Krippendorff, Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology
Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.
— Shannon L. Alder
We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.
— George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Look in the mirror. What you see there is what you get from others. When you smile, smile comes back to you. When you get angry, anger comes back to you. When you love, love comes back to you, when you hate, hatred comes back to you.That's very simple. You can make your life however you like by how you behave.
— Hiroko Sakai
the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.
— Manuel Castells, Communication Power
If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.
— Ilona Andrews, Steel's Edge
Argument need not be heated
—  it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
Love yourself enough to give what matters every chance of working by communicating as well as you possibly can, and trying for as long as you wish.
— Jay Woodman
A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.
— Guy Kawasaki
When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.
— Annette Bridges, The Gospel According to Mamma
Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen—interpret, process, and assign meaning— to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.
— Leonard Koren, Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement
The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It puzzled them to be treated as symbolic heroes by people with whom they had almost nothing in common. Yet they were gaining access to a whole reservoir of women, booze, drugs and new action -- which they were eager to get their hands on, and symbolism be damned. But they could never get the hang of the role they were expected to play, and insisted on ad-libbing the lines. This fouled their channels of communication, which made them nervous ... and after a brief whirl on the hipster party circuit, all but a few decided it was both cheaper and easier, in the long run, to buy their own booze and hustle a less complicated breed of pussy.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously
— waking life
Love ENDURES and works out ways of enduring the other stuff. As long as you can communicate you can work out issues, but good communication seems to be one of the weakest skills in human beings, so don't be afraid to try and try different ways of communicating, be patient. Don't be afraid of seeking help either - the chance to keep love alive is too important to let fear get in the way.
— Jay Woodman
Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.
— Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
— Bryant McGill
In conclusion, here's my advice to aspiring writers, journalists, and future lawyers - or anyone planning on working in the communications field: if you want an accurate account of any story, go to the primary sources. They know what really happened.
— Simeon Wright, Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
— Rick Perlstein
What exactly did you find in Atlanta?”Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs.”Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. “How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
— M. Scott Peck, The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
— Walt Disney Company
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg, Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World
I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.
— Jim Butcher, Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
It only becomes art if it touches other people.
— Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.
— Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!
— Miguel Ruiz
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
— Jack D. Zipes, The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg, Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
— William Golding
Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.
— Asa Don Brown
After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We are in the very beginning stages of what might take years or even decades of transition. The human race is developing a Universal Language. The practices that will assist humanity—and assist you—in reaching this higher communication will include all the things I'll share with you: vocal exploration, meditation, and energetic practices such as chi gong and yoga. Through these techniques, you are going to completely overhaul your nervous system and your energetic makeup to allow the emergence of this language within you.
— Dielle Ciesco, The Unknown Mother: A Magical Walk with the Goddess of Sound
to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree.
— Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. It’s true at the fireside and it’s true in the parlor, and it’s true in made-up towns and New York. Two humans face one another, words come out of one, words go into the other mind through the ears and eyes of the listener. It’s a story. It’s simple. The gap is the thing. Make sure you build the bridge.
— Patrick Somerville
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
— Ed Sheeran
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
— Robert Fulghum
...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
— John C. Maxwell
Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.
— Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body
—  use yours to lift someone up today.
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Do not mislead me, do not be glad that I have got lost, do not shout out joyfully: “Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog!” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.
— Leo Tolstoy
A man does not need encouragement to lose his heart.
— Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore
Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
— Cynthia Patterson
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. 
— Hermann Hesse, Klingsors letzter Sommer
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
— John Ortberg
Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.
— Sumi
Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)
— Claire Gillian
Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.
— Laurie A. Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!""If you can count to two, you can count to anything!""If I can count to two, I can count to anything!""And then the world is your mollusc!""My mollusc! What's a mollusc?
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.
— Tom Althouse
The value of routine
—  trusting your swing.
Turn lemons into lemonaid
— Kevin Cronin
When we encourage othersWith no personal motives,We raise high, very high,Humanity's progress-standard.
— Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration
But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!
— Dr. Seuss
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement
—  he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite
Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling
— Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
— Hugh B. Brown
Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)
— Yumi Tamura, Basara, Vol. 13
...I’ve discovered that if you want to reach yourtrue potential, it’s much more effective to ignite a new passion forlife than to dwell on past problems.
— Neil A. Fiore, Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict, and Self-Sabotage
The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.
— Gabrielle Giffords, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope
I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.
— Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
Feelings follow actions.
— Roxanne Henke, The Secret of Us
Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Found
As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880:It is no use relying on the Government . . . . You must only rely upon your own determination . . . . Help yourselves by standing together . . . strengthen those amongst yourselves who are weak . . . , band yourselves together, organize yourselves . . . and you must win . . . When you have made this question ripe for settlement,then and not till then will it be settled.
— Gene Sharp
And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
— Cormac McCarthy
The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.
— Confucius, The Analects
Observation enrich your capacity to think. Solababe
— Sola Ogunseitan
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.
— Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
— Roger Crawford
[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
— Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times
So Encourage Each Other and Build Each Other Up-Positive Connections.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.
— John Scalzi, Lock In
When I see you’re hurting, I want to wipe it away. When I see you doubting yourself, I want to give you the best damned pep talk in history. When you cry, I want to make you smile. When you laugh, I want to make you laugh harder. When you moan in my arms, I want to make you dissolve into a puddle. When you’re insecure about how I feel about you, I want to replace that with a proclamation that I love you so hard that I never want you to question us again.
— Tijan, Hate to Love You
Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can survive any shock.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we seek for the best times to act, we may missed some opportunities. We must seize every moment and make it great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your breakthrough is on the way. Don't be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God.
— Germany Kent
One negative thought is the first step to failure.
— Victoria Barnes
I am strong... Extra-ordinarily so much more than you guys! Therefore, I am perfectly capable of kicking those titan scumbags' collective ass including on my own if I have to. Are you all such a bunch incompetents? You gutless spineless cowards. You just stay there and watch in helpless envy. Yeah, you do that. If it is (impossible), then I'll die... It's just that simple. But if I win, I get to live. You don't stand a single chance to win unless you fight.
— Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2
Do not take to heart any ill-action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dismiss any doubt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Use the water of encouragement on someone else's flowers - especially the flowers that are wilted, trampled on, and taken for granted. But don't nourish the weeds.
— Hannah Garrison
Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Everyone encounters trials and tribulations, No choices, so face it! Live with it! Fight for it!
— Aireen C. Pontillo
We would never have gained the knowledge if it wasn’t meant to be used.” Jo was in teacher mode, and so we began to dance.
— Honeysuckle Pear
Good boy" can be canceled out the next day by "bad boy." "You're a smart girl" by "What a stupid thing to do!" "Careful" by "Careless" . . . and so on.But you can't take away the time he shoveled the whole walkway even though his arms were tired and his toes were frozen. Or the time he made the baby laugh with his goofy faces when the babysitter couldn't get her to stop crying, or found his mom's reading glasses, or figured out how to make the alarm on the cell phone stop going off when no one else could do it. These are the things he can draw upon to give himself confidence in the face of adversity and discouragement. In the past he did something he was proud of, and he has, within himself, the power to do it again.
— Julie Adair King, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
When kids are unhappy, we don’t have to prop them up with frantic praise. It’s more helpful to say, "Ugh, you are not happy with the way that bicycle came out. It doesn't look like what you see in your head. It's not easy to draw a bike. It's hard to put something from real life onto a flat piece of paper and get it to look right.
— Julie Adair King, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
Instead of, "Excellent work." Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."Instead of, "Good job following directions."Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.
— Julie Adair King, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.
— Rebecca VanDeMark
when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
You can make anything by writing
— C.S. Lewis
The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.
— Anne Graham Lotz
You have a say. You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
— Janna Cachola
You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.
— Zig Ziglar
Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Dwelling on a disappointing situation is like walking through drying cement; eventually you will get stuck. Instead make a mental note, picked yourself up and continued living life. #forward
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.
— John Smith
It is GOOD to cherish your yesterdays; It is BETTER to dream your tomorrows; but it is BEST to live your today's! Remember to hold fast to your dreams, for if your dreams die, then your life is like a bird with broken wings that cannot fly.
— Donald Pillai
It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Get Fired Up About Your Life Because If You Don't Who Will?
— Coach Dave
It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred
— ABC
It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself
— ABC
If you're struggling uphill; carrying your heavy load; fighting to stay afloat or battling your demons, know that you are definitely on the right path, and ascending to the place where you will one day embody the legend you seek to become.
— Seon Stronghold
So many people who hear of my adventure tell me they wish they could do what I'm doing. They admire me and think I have courage. They wish they could do something equally as daring in their own life. I think they give me too much credit. I'm living out the consequences of my decisions, that's all. My priorities powered this adventure. The same propellant rests inside each of them.
— Alexis Hartz, Coach Life
You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.
— Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.
— William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep
God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile
— Max Lucado, In the Eye of the Storm and the Applause of Heaven Two Inspirational Classics in One Volume
Everyone is unique in their own special way.
— Jackson Taviri
Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve.
— Tanya Masse
Every positive attempt was as a result of encouragement, every encouragement leads to success.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
The sacred soul delivers the message of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Humility evolves with every hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to encourage your spiritual leaders (and their wives!) let them know you are praying for them. Ask them periodically for any specific prayer requests and assure them you will pray accordingly. Use the following prayer guide with accompanying scriptures, to suggest practical ways to pray for those who provide spiritual leadership for the flock.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Embrace the beauty of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dare to deliver what’s in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Discover the diamonds in everyday life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You need a new strategy for every new situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Relax, refresh and refocus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every face of life demands endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Obstacles are the stepping stones to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Endure every hardship with hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We're not words...we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you.
— Elle Sommer
Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your hope will never be cut off.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you are down to nothing, God and the universe are always up to something!!! Be strong in your faith, that place within you where love is found. Those powerful forces within you and with out are working it out for you! Be encouraged and know everything will be okay again soon﻿
— Angie karan
Let's not just reach for the stars, but become the stars everyone reaches for.
— Robbie Kwia
your life mustn't be a closet for dirty laundry coz you will have a smelly and messy life...Yeah no matter how much you trying to clean up,the smell won't go away until you put away the "dirty laundry
— Duinkie Tracey Ncitha
Encouragement is the engine of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Arise and do thy sacred work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Laughter is easiest said in a story
—  some people just forget that their life is a story.
Encouragements are persuasive words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Good example of Love is forgiveness and to Love is to pray for ones soul not to perish
— kaMajola Nhepera
You're going to make it, you'll be ok, miracles happen every day.
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk Visits Sea Isle
We all need daily encouragement.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.
— Heather Wolf, The Long Spring
Seek to know thy higher self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
And my advice to anyone who wants to be a writer? Read a lot, listen to people’s conversations, be observant about the details of your world, and especially about human behaviour and interaction, and persist in your writing, being single-minded to the point of obsession…never give up, always believe in yourself despite all evidence to the contrary, and hold out for what you first dreamed of.
— SC Skillman, A Passionate Spirit
The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.
— Matt      Chandler
May you find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When the world says you can't God always says
—  you can do all thing through himd who empowers you.
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
— Max Lucado
Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our "songs of deliverance." Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
I am a great mother.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be greatly encouraged!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.
— Xinran, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
You're the loveliest you'll ever be...until tomorrow and then you will be even lovelier.
— Robin Caldwell
Although there are things that just tend to rub you the wrong way too! Smile and move on your choice!
— Auliq Ice
He had been the pastor of Tate's church since Tate's boys were in high school--probably over ten years now. Tate thought he was a fair man with a good heart. It helped that his sermons were interesting and not fire and brimstone like the guy they'd had before him. Tate understood too well the repercussions of his sin. He went to church to hear about hope, to be encouraged. That was a thing Mitch seemed naturally born to--encouraging others.
— Vannetta Chapman, Murder Simply Brewed
A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link. But did we condemn the weaker￼member? That wouldn’t serve any purpose. Instead, the stronger guys responded by carrying more weight than the weaker teammate. Encouragement was key in reaching the top of the stadium, standing as one.Sometimes one person on your team may not be as strong as another. Strengths usually differ. Likewise, in an encounter with another, someone may have a different set of beliefs or ideas.To accomplish any goal, embracing the strengths and weaknesses of each member and compensating where necessary are the best ways to make it to the top.
— Jake Byrne, First and Goal: What Football Taught Me About Never Giving Up
A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENTStomach-ache can be a curse
— heart-ache may be even worse
Don't be soo afraid to fall, that you don't even chase for success.
— Auliq Ice
Be Encouraged:The things that sometimes disqualify you in life will qualify you for God’s service.
— Stephen D. Matthews
When left holding an empty bag, fill it with dreams of honor and glory!
— T.A. Cline, Archomai
Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.
— LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2
I think what doesn't kill you makes you a better human being. It opens your eyes, your heart, and your mind.
— Derek Hough
There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip. That ain't the way to get out of being common, old chap. And as to being common, I don't make it out at all clear. You are oncommon in some things. You're oncommon small. Likewise you're a oncommon scholar.""No, I am ignorant and backward, Joe.""Why, see what a letter you wrote last night! Wrote in print even! I've seen letters––Ah! and from gentlefolks!––that I'll swear weren't wrote in print," said Joe."I have learnt next to nothing, Joe. You think much of me. It's only that.""Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope!
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water.
— Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba
We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
— Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life
Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.
— Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life
We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emotional. We need to treat people as whole people. This means caring about purity and the emotional side of human nature, not just utility.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Hope is the belief that everything will get better, even when you don't see any indication of improvement.
— Courtney Brooks, S.H.E. Serenity, Hope, & Encouragement: For Daily Motivation
people often ignore the misfortune of others, you see. The world is a heartless place but it's not always because they don't care. It's sometimes because the are embarrassed, or because they don't know what to say, or because they simply cannot beat ro look into the eyes of someone who is suffering.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Up from the ashes come the roses of success.
— Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
You can't allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.
— Courtney Brooks, S.H.E. Serenity, Hope, & Encouragement: For Daily Motivation
Creative people need strong encouragement.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Nature or nurture? A talent needs both.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die.
— Paulo Coelho
Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.
— John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
— Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall
The storm you face is your teacher. The experience you gain is your lesson. The life you make from it all is your blessing. Always remember, the teacher teaches a lesson that becomes a blessing. Embrace the storm and watch your life change as you utilize the lesson. Your better days lie ahead...just hold on!
— Kemi Sogunle
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.
— Lisa Tawn Bergren
Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.
— Michael Korda, Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this. I can't.
— C.S. Lewis