Quotes about Support

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

You're going to be okay. You're going to find your way. You are not alone.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

What do you want me to pray for them? Show me what to pray.

The worst blows typically come from family.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Take yourself out of the picture. Get in the habit of asking what's best for the team. For example, the next time you are at a problem-solving meeting and everyone is contributing ideas, instead of promoting yourself, ask yourself how the team would do if you were not involved in the solution. If it would do better, then propose ideas that promote and involve people other than yourself.

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.