Saturday, December 25, 2021

 Instead of focusing on what you can’t do, focus on what you can do. And try to do it in faith.

If you take risks and trust in God, He will reward you.

If you focus on your fears, your faith will wither and your trust in the Lord will also weaken.

Those who believe understand that life is much more than logical explanations. They believe that in life, there is a purpose and a plan that is greater than any of us will ever understand.

Faith in God is a personal matter between you and Him. There is no right or wrong in approaching Him.

It is through the good and the bad in life that your character is formed.

Faith is sometimes like a battle, and it requires not giving up, even when it seems impossible.

Even if it seems like you are working and struggling endlessly, your faith in the Lord will keep you strong until there is a way, because one day that way will be made.

Our thoughts have a lot to do with the affairs of our soul.

Faith is a way of looking at the situation through the lens of God, who can handle the situation better than we can.

Faith is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets. The more you use it in difficult times, the stronger it gets.

Never let age or any other external factor get in the way of your goals.

Sometimes you have to move to another level when your current one isn’t working.

Every challenge you face is a test of your faith in God. Every victory you achieve is a confirmation of your faith in God.

Faith is believing that God will do the right thing even when it doesn’t seem possible.

There are things in life that are just too difficult to handle. You must accept that you have no control over them and turn your attention to the Lord.

When life seems to be at its lowest point, that is the time when God’s presence is really close to you.

Fear is an emotion that can paralyze you, but when you turn to faith, fear has no power over you.

In difficult times, it is important to change your focus. Instead of complaining about what is happening, focus your attention on your faith in God.

Being a true Christian means having a strong faith; trusting in the Lord is always paramount, and leaning on Him is always the way of life.

When you believe in and trust God, you know true inner peace even when the external world is chaotic.

Nothing from this world lasts forever, but what comes from God will definitely last for all eternity.

 “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” -Napoléon Bonaparte – Quotes On Strength

 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.” -Jim Morrison – Quotes On Strength

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. -Steve Jobs

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. -Oprah Winfrey

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron

 When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” -Steve Maraboli – Quotes On Strength

 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”― Anaïs Nin Quotes On Courage

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”― Mark Twain Quotes On Courage

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”― Rumi Quotes On Courage

  It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”― E.E. Cummings Quotes On Courage

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”― Coco Chanel Quotes On Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”― Winston S. Churchill Quotes On Courage

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” –-Henry Ford

A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” –-Joe Vitale

The student has goals. The master has systems to reach her goals.” —Maxime Legace

“One day or day one. You decide.” —Paulo Coelho

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” —Harper Lee

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” —Voltaire


Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Henry David Thoreau

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne GretzkyIt’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein

“The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” —Thomas Fowell Buxton

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” —Napoleon Hill


A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” —Jim Watkins

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” —Helen Keller

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” —Benjamin Disraeli

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather

“We will either find a way or make one.” —Hannibal

It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

“The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” —Newt Gingrich

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand

Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” —Michael Jordan

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” —Dennis P. Kimbro

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. —William James





 Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon

“Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”

“Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.”


 Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.--Madeleine Albright New! as of 04/01/17

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life or say and do things that make people think.--Justice William O. Douglas

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher


 Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt

All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003)

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.--James Ramesy Ullman

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton


 Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others." --John C. Maxwell

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --Wayne Dyer

. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." --Dale Carnegie

"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." --Booker T. Washington

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." --Theodore N. Vail

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville

What would you do if you weren't afraid." --Spencer Johnson

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." --Washington Irving

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." --Truman Capote

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John R. Wooden

. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." --Vince Lombardi

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer


 "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine

"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." --Tony Robbins

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." --Audre Lorde

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain

. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee

There is no traffic jam along the extra mile." --Roger Staubach

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." --Dale Carnegie

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." --Jim Rohn

"If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --Gurbaksh Chahal

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki

. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eke

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." --Michael Jordan

. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Ryun

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." --Dale Carnegie

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." --Francis Chan

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer

"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at." -- Bruce Lee


 . "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Anonymous

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." --Walt Disney


8.38 "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." --Anonymous

"If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." --Anonymous

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." --Anonymous

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn

"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." --Anonymous

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson

. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo Picasso

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar

"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl Nightingale

. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." --Robert Collier

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." --Thomas J. Watson

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak

. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." --Philippos


"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --Lolly Daskal

. "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." --Anonymous


. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." --Anonymous

"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." --Anonymous

"You can do anything, but not everything." --Anonymous

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." --Steve Jobs






 "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --Maya Angelou

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." --Bill Gates

Areal entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." --Henry Kravis


 "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." --Anonymous

"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." --Anonymous

. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." --Oscar Wilde

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." --Anonymous

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --Bruce Feirstein

"When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you." --Lolly Daskal

"I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." --Oprah Winfrey

"No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein


 “For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” —Amit Ray

“I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.” —Jeffrey Fry

“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.” ―Gail Carson Levine

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” —Mark Twain

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” —Rumi

“Today is a beautiful day and I will attract good things into my life.” —Unknown

“A little progress each day adds up to big results.” —Satya Nani

“One day or day one. It’s your decision.” —Unknown

“Just one small positive thought in 

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." --Proverb

. "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy." --Anonymous

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." --Vaibhav Shah

. "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." --Chris Grosser

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." --Albert Einstein

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt


 “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” —Marcus Aurelius

“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve Jobs

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” —Sheryl Sandberg

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” —Dalai Lama

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” —Grandma Moses

“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” —Henry James

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” —Denis Waitley

“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” —Cherie Gilderbloom


 “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” —Jack Canfield

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” —Thomas Carlyle

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” —Babe Ruth

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” —Prescott

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” —French Proverb

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

“You can be the lead in your own life.” —Kerry Washington

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —Erica Jong

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

 Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.” —Elizabeth Elliot

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill

“Life is a series of baby steps.” —Hoda Kotb

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” —Zig Ziglar

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” —Farrah Gray

“All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time”. —Julie Andrews

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucious

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” —Lou Holtz

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer

“Light tomorrow with today.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Someday is not a day of the week.” —Janet Dailey


 “The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.” —Vince Lombardi

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” —Albert Einstein

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” —Serena Williams


“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” —Dennis P. Kimbro

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. —William James

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” —Mahatma Gandhi

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller

“Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.” —Reese Witherspoon

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” —Roald Dahl

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Suess

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” —Unknown

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” —Carole Burnett

“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” —Beyoncé

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubinstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

Inspirational Quotes For Work

inspirational quote about work by steve jobs

If not us, who? If not now, when?” —John F. Kennedy


  Experience teaches only the teachable.” Aldous Huxley The best lessons I ever learned in life came from the worst experiences in my life....