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“Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.”

Walks Steps Walking Encouragement One Step At A Time

Book:Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress

Source: Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress

“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.”

Thinking Men Humans Dream Courses Human Beings Air Week Capacity Encouragement Breathe Shoulders Lifts Fading Fresh Air Embers

Book:Encourage Me

Source: Encourage Me

“Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.”

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.”

Eye Imagination Focus Seeing Materials Discipline Cost Perception Training Encouragement Train Focused Suits Immense Raw Materials

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.”

Happens Encouragement Absolutes Perseverance Certainty Endurance Assurance

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.”

Love Life Inspirational Jobs Life Is Work Our Lives Encouragement Meaning Of Life Unconditional Love Buttons Life And Love Unconditional People In Your Life Katie

Author:Byron Katie

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

Inspirational Our Lives Encouragement Spots Applause

Author:George Madison Adams

“An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.”

Feels Trying Player Team Machines Encouragement Hot Sparks Automobile Ignite Cogs

Author:Knute Rockne

“How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.”

People Needs Persons Encouragement Breaths Breathe Breathing Encouraging Identifying Words Of Encouragement Need Encouragement

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?”

Ifs Important Action Goal Tasks Encouragement Important Things Taking Action Have Confidence Trifling Richest Man In Babylon

Book:The Richest Man in Babylon

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon

“I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.”

People Knows World Jobs Force Can Do Interesting Internet Encouragement Competition Meetings Hey Most Interesting Spurs

Author:Bill Gates

“I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.”

People Children Choices Environment Couple Conscious Encouragement Our Children Crisis Climate Environmental Climate Change Solve Hybrid Prius Lexus

Author:Al Gore

“One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.”

People Want Life I Can Turns Goal Interesting Principles Teach Car Example Inspire Keys Encouragement Hopefully Engines Good Examples

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires.”

Important Goal Millions Encouragement Millionaire

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather than being a spectator to it and if you do that, if you participate in the world, in your community, your school, your company, or your country, whatever.. they you will be useful and hopefully leave the planet a little better.”

Ifs World Life Believe Littles Important Country School Community Business Company Environment Planets Encouragement Hopefully Spectators Participants Hey You

Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us paying homage to him. I try to turn the pyramid upside down so that I'm at the bottom and bubbling away and encouraging people and energizing them so that they are all empowered so that they can do what they need to do, now that's the dream.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Dream Turns Can Do Leadership Company Encouragement Bottom Empowered Pyramids Upside Down Homage Energizing

Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.”

People Ifs Knows Want Helping Shows Dream Motivation Fun Wish Realizing Roles Models Encouragement Having Fun Role Models

Author:Takafumi Horie

“We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.”

People Asks Building Listening Encouragement Instinct Doomsday Mgm

Author:Kirk Kerkorian

“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

Action Moving Goal Encouragement Martial Arts Definite Self Mastery Martial Arts Inspirational

Book:Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

Source: Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

“While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.”

Company Products Paper Encouragement Sells Newspapers Enormous Range Carbon Truck Footprint Dvds Carbon Footprint

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.”

Ifs World Wisdom Action Success This World Encouragement Sheep

Author:Greg Norman

“If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.”

“Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.”

People Use Government Money Paper Gold Encouragement Discouraging Circulation

Author:Murray Rothbard

“People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves”

People Giving Feels Firsts Helping Asks Advice Inspire Authority Give Me Encouragement Plant Seeds Feel Good Drs Dr Phil

Author:Mr. T

“You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.”

People Faces Stars Easy Education College Encouragement Adversity Quitting Winner Ran Loser All Stars

Author:Mr. T

“Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.”

People Want Needs War Real Spirit Economic Sitting Encouragement Britain Nationalism Economic Power

Author:Ratan Tata

“Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.”

Knows Littles Wisdom Decision Knowledge Humility Encouragement

Author:John Templeton

“In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.”

Levels Encouragement Crisis Times Of Crisis

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.”

Matter Happiness Success Choices Chance Encouragement Lynching

Book:See You at the Top

Source: See You at the Top

“There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.”

Ifs Wish Stars Sky Encouragement I Hate You

Author:Frances Elliott Clark

“As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.”

People Important Real Grows Realizing Friendship Growing Up Growing Encouragement Real Ones Behind Your Back Friends Growing Up

Author:Lauren Conrad

“You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.”

Reality Positive Encouragement Intention Law Of Attraction

Book:Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)

“The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.”

Ifs Should Brain Worry Anxiety Should Have Encouragement What If

Author:John O'Callaghan

“I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.”

May I Can Encouragement

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”

Quality Forever Easier Encouragement Apologizing Motivational Sales Sales Team Sales Team Motivational Greatest Sales Inspiring Sales Sales Success

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.”

Needs Enough Bigs Running Together Goal Encouragement Entrepreneur Excited Plus Deadline Motivational Sales Inspirational Sales Sales Team Motivational Inspiring Sales Selling Motivational Sales Goals

Author:Ben Feldman

“One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.”

Mind May Seems Known Adventure Flower Encouragement Infinite Saint Ill Track Mysterious Multitudes Impress Petals Turbulence

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.”

Spiritual Opportunity Growth Challenges Evolution Encouragement Obstacles Encounters Imperatives Do Not Fear Spiritual Evolution

Author:Dannion Brinkley

“Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.”

Helping Our Lives Teaching Events Perspective Majors Tools Encouragement Helping Others Horrible Catalyst Major Change Events In Life

Author:Dannion Brinkley

“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”

Together Suffering Force Trouble Duty Sorrow Encouragement Brave Endurance Coward Manhood Petty

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.”

Mind Clear Conditions Anxiety Encouragement Load Tao Flexible Adjustment Clear Minds

Author:Zhuangzi

“Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.”

Men Joy Trouble Elements Encouragement Saved

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”

Heart May Pain Joy Pleasure Accepting Sorrow Encouragement Thee

Book:Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

“What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”

People World Order Justice Grace This World Willing Despair Ordinary Encouragement Odds Ordinary People Semblance

Author:Paul Hawken

“I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”

Optimism Encouragement Monument Pessimist Optimism In Life Optimists And Pessimists

Author:Paul Harvey

“Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”

Form Strong Drink Healthy Encouragement Stronger Pessimism Artificial Thirst Indulge Nourishment Indulge In Disdain Draught Strong Drink

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.”

Knows May Light Universe Difficult Encouragement Prepared Favors Warrior Be Prepared Difficult Times Having Patience Warrior Of The Light Conspiring

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World.”

Knows World Soul Dream Earth Used Water Animal Return Encouragement Clouds Desert Our Dreams

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.”

People Real Encouragement Enthusiasm Approval Stimulus Real Work

Author:B. C. Forbes

“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.”

People Ifs Looks Problem Creativity Offers Projects Capable Solutions Encouragement Nurture

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality