Quotes About Support

I define a moral action as one that brings advantage to my friends.

But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion.

My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. It is a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid is a single person—Jacob—who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constitute my life.

They painted one another and painted next to one another and supported one another emotionally and financially, and today their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. But in the 1860s, they were struggling. Monet was broke. Renoir once had to bring him bread so that he wouldn't starve. Not that Renoir was in any better shape. He didn't have enough money to buy stamps for his letters. There were virtually no dealers interested in their paintings.

Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't achieving, is that there isn't enough of it.

Successful people don't do it alone.

It's a rags-to-riches story, and everything we've learned so far from hockey players and software billionaires and the Termites suggests that success doesn't happen that way. Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rosetans were

though? Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains. They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly

He'd had to make his way alone, and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.

community, which

Bent double, groaning with the weight, an old lame Indian was carrying on his back, by means of a strap looped over his forehead, another poor Indian, yet older and more decrepit than himself. He carried the older man and his crutches, trembling in every limb under this weight of the past, he carried both their burdens.

The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

Loving families value effort as much as success.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

True champions are team players.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.