“We can help the marathon runner the most by offering encouragement and nourishment along the entire track, not just by waiting at the finish line with a trophy.” — Alex Hiam
“A proven way to accelerate improvement and progress: reward and celebrate closer and closer approximations of the desired end result.” — Andrew Compton
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” — Margaret Cousins
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
“Many people hesitate to praise and celebrate the people they work with, thinking it would seem like flattery. But the great ones know they are in a spiral of helping, a contest of giving.” — Dale Dauten
“It’s not how much we admire or appreciate someone, it’s how much they know it that counts.” — Andrew Lyon
Truthfully, everyone who does the best he or she can do, day in and day out, should be considered a hero.— Pat Murphy
We all need to be recognized for what we’re doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, ‘You’re beautiful. That was well done. That’s nice.’— Leo Buscaglia
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats before you, and no crowds shout your name.— Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves.— Peggy Noonan
Each day unknown men and women do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.— Charles Reade
In our world of ‘big names,’ legions of our most creative and courageous people tend to be anonymous.— Daniel J. Boorstin
A nation reveals itself not only by the men and women it produces but also by the men and women it honors.— John F. Kennedy
There is no such thing as an individual sport or a sole proprietorship. There are always a lot of people behind the scenes for anything great to happen.— Unknown
Even the greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.— Goethe
What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one’s ability to ask for help.— Donald Keough
Be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help and encourage one another, everyone wins.— Jim Stovall
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise and appreciation. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.— Sam Walton
The best leaders are coaches appealing to the best in their people; their doors are always open; they are problem solvers, advice givers and cheerleaders.— Robert Townsend
Among the duties of life, I hardly know any one thing more important than that of praising where praise is due.— Sydney Smith
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.— Voltaire
Be a good-finder. Try to catch people red-handed in the act of doing things right— and praise them for it.— Bill Meyer
Throw the spotlight into every corner of your company or community and celebrate the people who are doing things right.— Mark David
Ah, great it is to believe the dream. As we stand in youth by a starry stream. But a greater thing is to fight life through. And say at the end, ‘The dream is true.’— Edwin Markham
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything counts.— Sogyal Rinpoche
In the end, I think my greatest concerns will be, how much love did I have in my life? How did I share my love? Whose lives did I impact? Did my life make a difference to others? — Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
The true riches of life come from the satisfaction of knowing that your life counted for something, that you gave me back far more than you took.— W. Clement Stone
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.— Barbara Sher
We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions. Even if it takes a lifetime.— Diane Deacon
Let your life be defined by the things you still pursue, rather than the things you already possess.— Mike Mars
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.— Marie Beynon Ray
Don’t be fooled by the calendar; there are only as many days in a year or a lifetime as you make use of.— Charles Richards
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love, and can be a powerful force for good.— Anita Roddick
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.— Walt Disney
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.— Marianne Williamson
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”— Brian Tracy
You can have everything you want out of life, if you will just help enough other people get what they want out of life.— Zig Ziglar
Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others – something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.— Albert Schweitzer
The quality of your life will be determined in large part by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your own life improves too.— Kurek Ashley
So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. But always take time out to love and to live.— Daniel S. Godin
Life, even in the hardest times, is full of moments to treasure. They will not come this way again, not in this way.— Paula Rinehart
Do something brilliant each day. Make a great meal tonight. Sell something in a dynamic way. Spectacularly deliver a presentation. Tell an outstanding joke. Slash through a difficult obstacle. Dream a wonderful dream.— Roger Von Oech
These are the greatest days of your life. Don’t be afraid of them. Love every minute of what you are doing.— Terry Bowden
The bad new is that the good old days are gone forever. The good news is that these are the good old days you’re going to treasure years ahead.— Paul Harvey
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you finish the work.— Pat Clifford
Lots of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.— William Feather
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.— Robert Fulghum
Make regular appointments with yourself, and treat an appointment with yourself as you would treat an appointment with anyone else.— Steven Covey
Forget about the reasons why something may not work; you only need to find one good reason why it will.— Dr. Robert Anthony
I dared to dream big dreams, and then I willed them to happen. I’m convinced that most people can achieve their dreams and beyond if they have the determination to keep trying.— Howard Schultz
When everyone around you says you can’t. When everything you know says you can’t. When everything within you says you can’t. Dig deep within yourself, find it, and you can.— Mark Elliott Sacks
Progress results only from the fact that there are some people who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.— Russell Davenport
It’s not what other people believe you can do; it’s what you believe you can do that’s important.— Gail Devers
If the dominant belief is that the world is flat and you will sail off the edge if you go too far, then it’s impossible to sail beyond the horizon and discover a new world.— Cherie Carter-Scott, PH.D
Too many of our dreams and goals at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.— Christopher Reeve
‘But I can’t believe impossible things,’ cried Alice. ‘Of course you can, child,’ responded the Queen. ‘Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’— Lewis Carroll
Our ability to create a new company, a new community, or a new world for ourselves and others begins with our belief that it is possible.— Sergio Cellini
There is no good reason why we should not grow and develop and change until the last day we live.— Karen Horney
Become a beginner again. Learn to like being a beginner, and the whole world opens up to you once more.— Barbara Sher
Time is invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.— Unknown
One of the best things you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.— Wallace Wattles
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change.— William Arthur Ward
The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can become.— Max De Pree
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor even the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.— Charles Darwin
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.— L.C. Thurow
You are not made for failure, you are made for victory. Go forward with joyful confidence.— George Eliot
If success is not on your terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.— Anna Quindlen
Leaders do not give up easily. Their tenacity overcomes their discouragements. They find successful courses of action by refusing to acknowledge failure and by working to resolve the problem. — Mary McClure
Many people owe the grandeur of their lives to their decision to deal creatively with huge mistakes, problems or failures.— Pat Larson
Every adversity, heartbreak or problem comes with the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit…if we will only stop to look.— Napoleon Hill
Bounce back quickly from temporary setbacks. Treat mistakes as opportunities to grow. Learn from them; use them to propel you forward.— Bob Moawad
Success will come to you in direct proportion to the number of times you are willing to risk failure.— Bill Meyer