Support Quotes

• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.

  Joe Vitale

  Motivational, Inspiration, People

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• Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Presidential, Half

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Practice, Support You

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, People, Hug

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• Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Relationship, Sympathy

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• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inspirational, Hype, Weakness

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• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

  Robert Burton

  Motivational, Eye, Dwarves

  The Anatomy of Melancholy "Democritus Junior to the Reader" (1621 - 1651) See Bernard of Chartres 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

  Jean Vanier

  Live Life, Community, Suffering

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.330, Paulist Press

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

  Brooks Robinson

  Motivational, Baseball, Believe

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• I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Light, Offering, People

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• Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

  Steve Backley

  Support You, Doubt, Share

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• Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  Edgar Cayce

  Encouraging, Wise, Wisdom

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• Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

  Hugh Prather

  Friendship, Mistake, Clear

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• Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Strong, Wind, Practice

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• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  John Buchan

  Funny, Atheist, Humorous

  Quoted in Harry E. Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943)

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• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Adversity, Helping Others

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

  Pete Wentz

  Inspirational, Moving On, Loyalty

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• Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, and to think and speak about other people in a way that is honoring or dishonoring. What choice are you going to make today.

  Gregg Braden

  Thinking, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Gregg Braden from Sep 17, 2010

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Struggle, Learning

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• Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

  Andres Segovia

  Heart, Guitar, Body

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  Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Birthday, Epic

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