Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.- Booker T. Washington
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
Teachers: two kinds: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just give you a little prod from behind and you jump to the skies.
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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