Quotes About Support

One time someone wrote to us: "I'm applying all of the things you suggest, and I am coming up with a ton of ideas to improve my life. The only problem is, when I go out drinking with my friends on Friday night, they all laugh at the ideas. What should I do?" We wrote back: "Simple solution: stay home on Friday night.

I've seen it in action repeatedly: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care. Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

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Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not. Because if we let the wrong people in, we will be drained, and if we are drained, how can we expect to have abundance or creativity?

The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.

If you start hanging around with people who don't love and support you, then you'll die.

Everyone around you needs to ultimately become better than you. That's how you lead.

So I say, "Yes, and…" then elaborate on what is good about her idea and how I think it can be made even better and why.

I am not available 99.9% of the time. But I always make myself available for people who I look up to as mentors.

The most important thing in life," she told me, "more important than anything else by far, is friendship.

We can feed ourselves but ultimately life is better when we feed each other.

Leadership doesn't ask the question "How good can I get? How far can I get?" Leadership asks the question "How far can the people around me get?

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

If you want someone to spend one hour of their life helping you, then you need to spend 10 hours of your life, at least, helping them IN ADVANCE and with NO PRESSURE.

So what can we really do for each other except--just love each other and be each other's witness? And haven't we got the right to hope--for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are?

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

I know I can't help you very much right now—God knows what I wouldn't give if I could. But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends.

He didn't like his sisters and I didn't have any brothers. And so we got to be, for each other, what the other missed.

So, let me tell you what you got to do. You got to think about that baby. You got to hold on to that baby, don't care what else happens or don't happen. You got to do that. Can't nobody else do that for you. And the rest of us, well, we going to hold on to you.

To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. Remember that: I know how black it looks today, for you.

how I stood, with my love and my ingenuity, between him and the dark.

We've got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other's only hope.

We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived. And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children.

He had been been patting his handkerchief between his palms; now he opened his handkerchief and reached out and wiped my forehead. You're all I've got, he said then, with a shy, pained grin. Be careful. Daddy, I said. And began to cry. And if speaking had been agony, this was worse and yet I could not stop. And my father's face changed. It became terribly old and at the same time absolutely helplessly young ... Don't cry, he said, don't cry.