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... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in ...

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The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little p...

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How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educati...

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And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...

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I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports ...

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But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...

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Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

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Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...

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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of...

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Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is...

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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it eno...

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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their c...

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This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will nev...

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Hermann HesseKlingsors letzter Sommer

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else co...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it ma...

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt

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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEarly and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15,...

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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give enco...

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Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my pr...

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When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

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Mark TwainHow Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. W...

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No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

There needs but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels...

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God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

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Max LucadoIn the Eye of the Storm and the Applause of Heaven Two Inspirational Classics in One Volume

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the rig...

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Michael KordaClouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget s...

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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. Yo...

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Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in...

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But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide op...

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Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they d...

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Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words a...

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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, y...

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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are the...

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Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed....

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones...

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On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...

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When we encourage othersWith no personal motives,We raise high, very high,Humanity's progress-standa...

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Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

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Steve MartinBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a na...

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While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

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Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involve...

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We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that),...

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You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on ...

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You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and ...

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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and en...

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But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and ...

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Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't ...

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not,...

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I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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