Quotes About Encouragement

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

Discouragement is an attitude.

Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.

It's useless, I groaned, sinking to the floor. It'd take months to get ready for this. I don't have a hope in hell. Of course you do! Vanez roared. Squatting beside me, he poked me in the ribs. Feel that? he asked, jabbing a sharp finger into the soft flesh of my belly. Ow! I slapped his hand away. Quit it! It's sharp? he asked, jabbing me again. It hurts? Yes! He grunted, jabbed me one more time, then stood. Imagine how much sharper the stakes in the Hall of Death are, he said.

special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen Mac Cormack, for her advice during the early stages of this project; and to David Bromige (weaver of radhats), for his enthusiasm which encouraged me to develop this piece into a book-length poem.

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

To Christine Craig, for walking me through

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 tells us: "Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.

Real leaders are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

She is silk in a bed of mail-order satin. Complete and seamless, an egg of sexual muscle. My motions atop her are dislocated, frantic, my lone interstice a trans-cultural spice of encouragement I smell with my spine. As, inside it, I go, I cry out to a god whose absence I have never felt to keenly.

A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can't get ourselves to do on our own.

Le persone muoiono dalla voglia che qualcuno gli predica il futuro e tu li rincuori. Che diamine, dai loro qualcosa da desiderare e in cui sperare. È quel che fanno i predicatori la domenica. Tra essere un'indovina e un predicatore, la differenza è poca, per come la vedo io.

Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.

Dalam pesona persahabatan, orang yang biasanya tidak menonjolkan diri bisa menjadi berani, yang pemalu menjadi percaya diri, yang pemalas menjadi giat, yang tidak sabar dan banyak gerak menjadi hati-hati dan tenang.

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, understanding, sympathy and support for which he had always craved. She inspired him, she calmed him and she enabled him for the first time in his life to believe in himself. Her sense of humor awoke his own, her natural gaiety lightened him. Their marriage was a rare union in which each complemented and enhanced the other.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you wouldn't have any.