Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.
Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.
Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.