It's important for you to get around people who will stir up [your] seeds of greatness. Don't surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people.

It's so important for you to get around people who will stir up [your] seeds of greatness. Don't surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people.

We all need people who are joined in spirit with us and say, "If you're bold enough to believe, count me in. I'm bold enough to agree with you." You need supporters who will come into agreement with you and release their faith, not doubters who tell you what you can't do.

What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning how many other things we appreciate about our spouse.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.