"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."
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"Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'."
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"He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it."
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"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."
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"If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play"
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"For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass."
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"Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs."
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"As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones."
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"The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour."
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"I've always thrived on the encouragement of others."
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"If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion."
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"Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go."
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"What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement."
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"Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement."
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"I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have."
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"The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement."
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"For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough."
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"One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world."
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"Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free"
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"Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!"
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