I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.

Everyone, everywhere, needs encouragement on a regular basis. Start with people you know and add to your list.

Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

“It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.”

“of their passions in the same object at that particular time.”

“The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”

“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.”

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”

“What one can be, one must be!”

"I don't believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that 'it's all about the process,' I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

To succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"Only selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity."

"I am very interested in entrepreneurial initiative. Wherever I find it, I'm always encouraging it ... and trying to give them good advice, sound advice...."

"encouraged and pleased to see that the countries of Latin America stood up for human rights and democracy in their own region, especially with regard to Cuba."

"Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge."

"A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment."