Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.--Dale Dauten 

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.--Bill Walsh ("The Case for Kudos" Forbes ASAP, 10/10/1954) 

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?--William Lyon Phelps 

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are...--Gail Godwin 

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.--Samuel Johnson (The Rambler, June 6, 1751) 

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 

The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.--G. K. Chesterton 

Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.--Annie Gottlieb 

Spend time to remember and appreciate the people in your life who, despite it all, kept you hopeful as you encountered situations of evil, suffering, and sadness.--Joe McHugh (Startled by God: Wisdom from Unexpected Place) 

There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.--William R. Miller 

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.--Omar Khayyam 

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.--O. Henry 

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 

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.--Lao-Tzu 

All glory comes from daring to begin.--Eugene F. Ware 

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.--Albert Camus 

Almost everything comes from nothing.--Henry F. Amiel 

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been...--Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910) 

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.--Meister Eckhart 

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken.--Plato (The Republic) 

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.--John Galsworthy 

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) 

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.--Amy Tan 

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.--Charlotte Bronte 

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.--Marquise du Deffand 

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.--Publilius Syrus 

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.--Olga Korbut 

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.--James Russell Lowell

Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.--Marsha Petrie Sue (The CEO of You) 

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.--Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guldenstern Are Dead) 

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.--Dan Custer 

Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.--Seneca 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris