“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” ~ Seneca

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

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

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.” ~ E. Lockhart

“Whenever life hammers you, bounce back with a smile.” ~ Invajy

“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

“If you tell“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” ~ Booker T. Washington

“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

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

“ Love, compassion and kindness are the foundation of happy life.” ~ Invajy

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.” ~ Jim Rohn the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

“Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each is to succeed.” ~ Corita Kent

“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ~ John Bunyan

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.” ~ David Orr

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” ~ François de la Rochefoucauld

“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Hope itself is like a star — not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by.” ~ Lao Tzu

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” ~ E.B. White

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ~ Stephen King

“Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us.” ~ Maxime Legacé

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” ~ Samuel Smiles

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~ Alfred Tennyson

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.” ~ Alexandre Dumas

“I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” ~ Arthur Miller

“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.” ~ Abraham Cowley

“When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.” ~ Mariah Carey

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ~ Winston Churchill

“While there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ Marcus Tulius Cicero

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” ~ Jim Butcher

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“Every cloud has a silver lining.” ~ John Milson

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” ~ George Washington Carver

“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” ~ William Shakespeare

“It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!” ~ Charles Dickens

“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver

“Hope is the last thing ever lost.” ~ Italian Proverb

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired.” ~ Eric Swensson

“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

“Hope and change are hard-fought things.” ~ Michelle Obama

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” ~ Helen Keller

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.” ~ Robert Brault

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.” ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.” ~ Charles Swindoll

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ~ Anne Frank

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.Author Unknown

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Just do the best you can right now. Lalah Delia

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Harriet Stowe

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Rhonda Byrne

You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman. Tyra Banks

Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up. Jenette Stanley

Asking for support is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. Amanda Goetz

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Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.--Guillaume Apollinaire

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.--Clarence Darrow

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

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

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton

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

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979)

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou