“You feel like he’s pushing you forward — not like he’s holding you back. He encourages you to go after your dreams. He makes you feel like the impossible is possible.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Pick someone in your life you admire. Your grandfather, an old college professor, a friend—it doesn’t matter who, as long as you have total respect for them and you admire their life or accomplishments. Then when you’re about to take a leap, visualize this person at your side, rooting for you, telli…”— Jillian Paulson, jillianmichaels.com
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain, bloomberg.com
“I’ve never worked a day in my life. I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopp…”— Ray Bradbury, brainpickings.org
“I encourage my students at times like these to get one page of anything written, three hundred words of memories or dreams or stream of consciousness on how much they hate writing — just for the hell of it, just to keep their fingers from becoming too arthritic, just because they have made a commitm…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Encouraging your guy in all his endeavors makes him want to improve, for himself and also for you. Direct some of your energy toward supporting him, and he’ll direct some of his energy back to loving you.”— Marni Battista, thoughtcatalog.com
“Bring out the best in him. Every woman has this power, but forgets sometimes. A man will steadily fall more and more in love with a woman who steadily helps him become more and more the man he has always wanted to be. Not only can you help nurture the vision that he has of his own greatness, but you…”— Ali Binazir, huffingtonpost.com
“I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com