Cicero
“Man's best support is a very dear friend.”
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La Rochefoucauld
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
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Mary Kay Ash
“People will support that which they help to create.”
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Earon Davis
“It takes community to maintain a human.”
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William Shakespeare
“It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.”
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Mark Twain
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
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Dean Smith
“I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.”
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Xenophon
“The sweetest sound of all is praise.”
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Catherine the Great
“I praise loudly, I blame softly.”
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George W. Crane
“Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!”
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Grace Pulpit
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
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Marianne Williamson
“Family... a group experience of love and support.”
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H.E. Luccock
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
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Edward Gardner
“If we would just support each other – that’s ninety percent of the problem.”
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Marcus T. Cicero
“Man’s best support is a very dear friend.”
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Anatole France
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
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Author Unknown
“Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers”
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Zig Ziglar
“If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.”
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Goethe
“Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.”
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David Berg
“Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.”
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Charles Fillmore
“We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.”
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Edmund Burke
“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”
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Princess Diana
“Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.”
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Robert Burton
“A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
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Arabian Proverb
“The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.”
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Therese of Lisieux
One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.”
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Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.”
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Kathy Ireland
“I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.
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Princess Diana
“My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.”
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Mitch Thrower
“Invest a little time and genuine support with real-world exchanges of information – grounded in what truly interests those in your world.”
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Jess Lair
“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.”
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Abraham Lincoln
"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...”
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Goethe
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
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Elizabeth Harrison
“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
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Ovid
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
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Michael S. Rosenberg
“Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position far too often.”
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Author Unknown
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
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Robert Martin
“Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.”
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Susan Jeffers
“For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.”
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John Schwartz
“Nothing lifts your spirits or fills your heart more than giving your support and time to a good cause.”
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.”
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Maya Angelo
“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.”
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.”
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Richard M. DeVos
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.”
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Socrates
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
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Elizabeth Harrison
“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
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John Wise
“Students that receive encouragement from their parents to participate in a program that they're interested in are more likely to succeed.”
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Mary Kay Ash
“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel.” important.
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Orison Swett Marden
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
“The support of one’s personality is friends. A part of one’s self and a real foundation and existence.”
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Anne Sophie Swetchine
“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.”
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John Wesley
“Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.”
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George M. Adams
“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.”
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Wayne Dyer
“I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.”
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Princess Diana
“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.”
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Edward VIII
“I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.”
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R. Buckminster Fuller
“You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.”
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William Arthur Ward
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
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Author Unknown
“Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.”
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Robert Collier
“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.”
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Charles M. Schwab
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
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Alec Waugh
“A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
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Cavett Robert
“Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition.”
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Booker T. Washington
“I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.”
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George M. Adams
“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.”
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David Joseph Schwartz
“Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of other people.”
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Valerie Bell
"Let your eyes light up when your children are around. Laugh more. Tell them how empty and quiet it is when they’re not there. Enjoy the things they bring to your life. Attend their activities, not as if they were compulsory for parents, but throw yourself into their lives."
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Orison Swett Marden
“No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more, to be happy and successful, than much money.”
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Sidney Madwed
“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.”
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