All Quotes By Tag: Encouragement

“We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us”

“I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O’ Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don’t worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.”

“The best knowledge is to be kind.”

“When you try to be someone else, you’re not only neglecting your true self; you’re also sacrificing the potential God has planted within you. The potential to rise to your calling, reach others through your gifts, and make a difference.”

“A bad attitude is like moths, it will eat everything good you have in your life.”

“Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers.I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.”

“Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun–that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughly–I do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea.”

“Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.”

“Morning dew upon the grass,glistening in the sun.Yesterday’s gone,tomorrow may come,but this day has begun.”

“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.”

“Never put off writing until you are better at it.”

“Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!”

“You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.”

“You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.”

“Don’t think less of me as a person because of my profession.”