Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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.
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.
People need encouragement to take action.
There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.
There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.
Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.
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