Quotes About Support

No one should be forced to stay with their abuser because they don't have the resources to leave.

We're seeing during this crisis just why it is so important for American workers to belong to unions, so that they have someone to fight for them and with them.

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I feel your pain.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.

I wouldn't go against Reggie and actively encourage Zoe to move in, but I think she and I would do okay together. If nothing else she could help me in my never-ending campaign. Some people want to save the rivers or save the whales, even save the entire planet - I just want to keep the toilet seat down.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

John recorded that Jesus gave this promise four times (see John 14:16, 25; 15:26; 16:7). Other translations use different words to describe what Jesus would send, such as Counselor, Comforter, advocate, another to befriend you, and someone else to stand by you.

I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say, New Yorkers—will take care of you.

It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other's backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.