Best encouragement & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Helping Certain Advice Encouragement Asking

Author:Dionne Warwick

“Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.”

“I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.”

Thinking Knows Way Inspirational Motivational Attitude Encouragement

Author:Hal Elrod

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen”

Thinking Happens Can Do Encouragement

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.”

Thinking Matter Love Is Secret Greater Mystery Encouragement Encouraging His Love

Book:The ragamuffin Gospel

Source: The ragamuffin Gospel

“Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.”

Ifs Thinking Children Care Mother Motivation Women Powerful Compassion Greater Essence Encouragement Our Children Warmth Pacific Expanse

Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons

“What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mind May Soul Seems Faces Natural Sun Becoming Encouragement Rate Atheist Rays Flash Handsome Vigor Good Humor

Author:Jeremy Collier

“My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.”

Thinking Giving Feels Believe Film Given I Believe Audience Industry Taste Encouragement Don't Believe Filmmaker Filmmaking Festivals Empowered Film Festivals

Author:Tilda Swinton

“We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.”

People Ifs Thinking Ideas Waiting Late Encouragement Too Late

Author:Aaron Levie

“I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.”

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Author:Mirah

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

“I think it's cool to give people encouragement.”

People Thinking Giving Encouragement

Author:Avey Tare

“This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.”

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Author:William Murchison

“Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.”

Thinking Artist Opportunity Interesting New York Encouragement Chinese Call Me 80s Narrow-minded

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading to each other and giving each other little bits of encouragement and feedback and thoughts, I think that's an incredibly rich experience because what it does is it gives you a sense of community but also purpose. If I know I'm going to meet you in a cafe next Tuesday, I'm going to write something that I can hand to you. Discipline is such a challenge for so many writers and so I think that that's a key benefit of being in a group.”

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Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.”

People Thinking Writing Believe Encouragement Clever

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“I think skateboarding is better now in terms of the amount of facilities and the amount of support young skaters have - including encouragement from their parents. There was definitely an element to it when I was younger that was exclusive and kind of rebellious because most parents didn't want their kids skating. They thought it was a bad influence.”

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Author:Tony Hawk

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Source: One to one: understanding personal relationships

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.”

Thinking Fiction Reader My Family Encouragement Discouragement

Author:Amy Tan

“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”

Thinking Inspirational Bigs Motivational Leadership Encouragement Why Not Think Big Aim High

Author:Donald Trump

“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Happens Turns Given Hurt Honest Trust Encouragement Impression All Kinds Being Honest Been Hurt

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”

Thinking Giving Mind Littles Use Feelings Cities Brain Study Fool Needed Drug Mountain Encouragement Leaving Ancient Site Typewriters Pitiful Buffalo Visualizing Drug Taking

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”

Source: Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire

“Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.”

Source: The Secret

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs. [

“Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent." ... "Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this." ... "I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this." ... "Carla," the Duke said, "it's time to tell you the truth. I'm in love with you. I want to be with you, Carla. I've never felt this way about a c-”

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

“[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.”

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Author:Kim Harrison

“Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”

“As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.”

“I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.”

People Thinking Needs Years Kind Jobs Effort Policy Serious Taxes Essentials Years Ago Encouragement Incentives

Author:Dick Cheney

“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”

“Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential - and duty - of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

Thinking Long Winning Loses Failure Encouragement Determine Clever Motivational Sales Salespeople Inspirational Sales Sales Team Great Sales Sales Team Motivational Sales People Greatest Sales

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.”

Thinking Winning Battle Encouragement Strongest Sooner Or Later Motivational Sales Sales Team Great Sales Greatest Sales Inspiring Sales

Author:Richard Bach

“I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?”

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Author:Ernest Becker

“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.”

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Book:Encourage Me

Source: Encourage Me

“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.”

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Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“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.”

“You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head”

Thinking Strong Achieve Encouragement

Author:Tony Robbins

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