TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Positive Comments, Encouragement, Kind Words, Smiles
All of us need encouragement, and the beautiful part about encouragement is this: anybody can do it!" Chuck Swindoll
"Always be a littler kinder than necessary." James M. Barrie
Correction does much, but encouragement does more." Goethe
"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." Abraham Lincoln
Fragrance lingers on the hands of those who hand out roses.
I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.
"It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, And made the day worth living." Unknown
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Theresa
"Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart." Sir Humphrey Davy
Man doesn't live by read alone. He needs buttering up once in a while.
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." Aesop
People will forget what you say; People will gorget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
"Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips" Unknown
"Thank you for believing in me before I believed in myself." Kobi Yamada (Shared by Cowboy from Thank You complied by Dan Zadra)
"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks all of them." Rose Butikofer
There are people who knock the heart out of you and others who put it back in. Encouraging others simply means giving them "a courage transfusion." On the Right Note, May 1, 2007
There is no tranquilizer in the world more effective than a few kind words.
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." James M. Barrie
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. (From the last episode of "Cheers")
We never know what ripples of healing we set in motion by simply smiling on one another. (Shared by Zippy out of a devotional book she uses)
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire." Whoopi Goldberg
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
"Wise words often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." Arthur Helps, English Historian