Greer Garson Quotes

We have to inspire people and give them a sense of hope. We need to bring people along, not ridicule and tear them down.

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

When bad things happen he’s the consoler in chief. When good things happen, he’s the celebrator in chief.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

I don't like to insult people and I encourage them.

You don't criticize or critique your teammates if they're having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they'll encourage you.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.

It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

I'd always find the positive in someone.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it!