Quotes About Encouragement

It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

My dad made sure he gave me everything, he sacrificed what he had to, to make sure I had what I needed to perform at the best level.

Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

I had a lot of people that were real big fans of mine behind the scenes.

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

I keep asking my son about his cricket scores. I have worked hard for his passion for sports.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

If the team is scoring, and I'm on the court, that's as good as me scoring.

There's more to Gareth's game than scoring goals, he's brought a lot to the changing room.

I really am very grateful for the support from everyone in Scotland.

Don't let anyone tell you what you cannot do. My whole life I had people tell me 'you'll never do that' or 'you'll never be that.' Things people said I'd never be able to do, I'm doing. I try and stress that to kids. A lot of inner-city kids have an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I have to explain that there is hope.

At first, Coach Smart was big on not overwhelming me. But I told him, 'My mental capacity is a lot more than you think it is. I can take it.'

I have the love and support of people, which is overwhelming.

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

Anyone who ever gave me confidence, I owe them a lot.

I love building a team around me, and being able to support a group of people is one of the best feelings I've come to know during my career; I imagine this is what a lot of business owners can relate to this.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

Whether I'm in a ball gown or a pair of jeans, it's not about me or what I'm wearing; it's about what I can be doing to support and empower others going forward.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.