Encouragement Quotes - Page 40

• You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, People, Looks

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

  Mark Twain

  Stress, Issues, Years

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• Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, People, Smoking

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• Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.

  Unknown

  Smoking, Effort, Marathon

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• It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful

  Zig Ziglar

  Reading, Smoking, Firsts

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• Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

  Napoleon Hill

  Cities, People, Desire

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• Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Thinking, Smoking, Might

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• Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours

  Wayne Dyer

  Choices, Care, Well Being

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• Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

  Abraham Maslow

  Character, Smoking, Tests

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• There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

  Lord Chesterfield

  Smoking, Today, Quitting

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• Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  Deepak Chopra, M.D. (2012). “AARP The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.76, John Wiley & Sons

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• The choices you make today design your future

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Design, Today

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• Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

  Henry Ford

  Smoking, Trying, Quitting

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• Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

  Mike Murdock

  Sleep, Cat, Stories

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• It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

  Seneca the Younger

  Choices, Easy, Amusing

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• Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Walks

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• If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Smoking, Quitting, Should

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• You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Fool, Action

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• A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Blessing, Rivers

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• 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.

  David Halberstam

  Baseball, Religious, Growing Up

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• Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

  Denise Levertov

  Imagination, Affliction

  Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.145, New Directions Publishing

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• But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Success, Fall, Personality

  'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861) vol. 2, p. 477

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• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  "Nation: Madam Candidate", content.time.com. February 7, 1964.

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• You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it?
  How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?
  The answer lies in the return.
  You will not come back to the 'same old thing.
  What you return to has changed because you have changed.
  Your perceptions will be altered.
  You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind.
  The river has been flowing while you were gone.
  Now it does not look like the same river.

  Stephen Foster

  Change, Lying, New Beginnings

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• Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!

  Winston Churchill

  World, Shouting, Seems

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