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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.

  Lynn Andrews

  Perfect, Events, Earth

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• I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love, Heart, Giving

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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• When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Giving, Support

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• Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

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• A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Needs, Followers

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 29, 2016

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• Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Thinking, Air

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• When its dark enough you can see the stars.

  Charles A. Beard

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Hope, Hurt

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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

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Encouragement Changes Everything: Bless and Be Blessed”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Ocean, Hard Work

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• A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

  Kevin Bacon

  Giving, Acting, Directors

  "Tim Robbins And Kevin Bacon Discuss Mystic River". Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Truth, Learning

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

  George Madison Adams

  Inspirational, Applause, Spots

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• Good words are worth much, and cost little.

  George Herbert

  Positivity, Cheerful, Cost

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.297, [s.n.]

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• The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

  Aesop

  Life, Motivational, Adventure

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Monday

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• With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Judging, Way, Faults

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Niece, Helping Others

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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