You cannot do a kindness too soon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone appreciates being appreciated! — Lance Mitchell
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. — Mae West
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. — Marcel Proust
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. — William Arthur Ward
You always admire what you really don’t understand. — Blaise Pascal
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. — Mark Van Doren
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best. — Bob Kerrey
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. — Tom Brokaw
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. — Louis Schwartzberg
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. — William James
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. — Plato
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive. — Brian Clough
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. — Josef Albers
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper – the more it is spent, the more of it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive. — Jim Rohn
A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness. — Dalai Lama
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. — Caroline Kennedy
Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life. — Daisaku Ikeda
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. — Oscar Wilde
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. — H. L. Mencken
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind. — Leon Battista Alberti
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. — Joseph Hall
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. — Storm Jameson
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin. — Joseph Brodsky
Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices. — Robert C. Solomon
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. — John Lubbock
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. — Richard Gere
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. — Sarah Caldwell
“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune” — Sam Walton
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. — Christiane Northrup
All leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. — David Cooperrider
Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return. — Bob Taft
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men’s hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men–genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion. — Thomas Carlyle
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. — Joseph Pulitzer
I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I’m human. — Selena Gomez
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent. — Alison Eastwood
In fact, the Alejandro video…is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships. — Lady Gaga
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. — Goswami Kriyananda
It is very singular how the fact of a man’s death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding. — Neil Gaiman
Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I’m tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I’ve had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There’s no appreciation of actors and no sense of history. — Burt Reynolds
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. — Virginia Satir
I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan – am only alive because of it – the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers. — Rory Stewart
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between ‘optimism’ and ‘denial.’ — Terry Rossio
You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic – and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother’s Day card and school report since day one. — Pam Brown
Have either of you seen your mother ” “Yeah ” Ethan said and my heart actually skipped a beat. But I should have known Ethan was joking. “Slim lady. Blue eyes and a gray pageboy ” he continued his eyes glistening in appreciation of his own humor. “Answers to the name ‘Mom’. — Rachel Vincent
The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them. — Marci Shimoff
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. — Dale Carnegie
Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians across the country came out in force, united in appreciation, to honour the bravery, heroism, strength and sacrifice of those who fought for freedom and security in Afghanistan. — Stephen Harper
I can’t say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and appreciation for those who have stood by me, been tough on me, and have taken the time to understand that there is a deeper story and not to believe everything they read in the newspapers. — Jayson Blair
For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry. — Okakura Kakuzo
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it — Al-Kindi
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. — John Steinbeck
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini… in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind. — Lin Yutang
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don’t tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It’s fairly sexy. Of course I don’t know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don’t burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247) — Barbara Kingsolver
