Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.” Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” Helen Keller

 We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.”

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”

 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

 Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.” Anonymous

“There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” Anonymous

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” Paulo Coelho

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” Anonymous

“There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” Sean Connery

“I’m accepting the challenge.” Robert Whaley

“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” Anonymous

“The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself ina world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” Anonymous

“The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity for growth.” Anonymous

 If you don’t challenges yourself, you will never realize what you can become.” Anonymous

“Be thankful for each new challenge because it will build your strength and character.” Anonymous

“If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” Fred Devito

 Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness, they are signs of strength.” Anonymous

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” Anonymous

 “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy

 “The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” Croft M. Pen

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

2. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” – Unknown

 “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” – Chinese Proverb

 “Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” – Eknath Easwaran

 “Patience is not just about waiting for something. It’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” – Unknown

 “You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”  – Unknown

“Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

“Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John

 

“The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman

“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

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

“I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama

 

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

 

“Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.” Tony Gaskins

 

. “God has perfect timing; never early, never late. It takes a little patience and it takes a lot of faith but it’s worth the wait.” Anonymous

Stay patient and trust the journey.” Anonymous

 “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” Saadi

 

 “Be patient. Everything is coming together.” Anonymous

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

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Alva Edison

“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” —Lydia M. Child

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale

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

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

 

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

“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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

 

I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” – Leah Busque

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”― Neil Gaiman

“Everything you can imagine is real.”― Pablo Picasso

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

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

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll

 If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

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

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

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemiso

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

 “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

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

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.”  ~ William Booth (A British Methodist Preacher and founder of the Salvation Army)

 

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

 

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

 

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

 

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)

 

“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.”  ~ George Muller (English Evangelist)

 

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”  ~ Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)

 

“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”  ~ Matthew Henry (English Bible Commentator and Minister)

 

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”  ~ C. S. Lewis (Novelist, Lay Theologian and Christian Apologist)

 

“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”  ~ A. A. Hodge (Leader in the American Presbyterian Church)

 

“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”  ~ A. B. Simpson (Founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance)

 

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”  ~ A. C. Dixon (Pastor, Bible Expositor and Evangelist)

 

I am resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.” ~ Jonathan Edwards

 

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“It’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

 

“Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.” ~ Joyce Meyer

 

“The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.” ~ A.W. Tozer

Prayer is the link that connects us with God. ~ A.B. Simpson

 

O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth. ~ Andrew Murray

 

Know your HOLY GOD intimately. (When you have seen His glory, His holiness and His love – by drawing close to Him in prayer – then you can usually see through any counterfeits because you know the “real thing” so well). ~ Andrew Strom

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

Becoming strong doesn’t start in the gym. It starts in your head.

 

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

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.” Helen Keller

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller

 

 

 

 

 Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” —Thomas J. Watson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” —Unknown

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” —Plutarch

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” —Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” —Muhammad Ali

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” —Zig Ziglar

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” —Elisabeth Foley

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anais Nin

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” —Donna Roberts

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” —Maxwell Maltz

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”– Sarah Dessen

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

 “It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

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

“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

“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

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale

“You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem

When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”  —Ella Fitzgerald

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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” —Mark Twain

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

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

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

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

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” —Malcolm X

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Abraham Lincoln

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” —Elvis Presley

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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”

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

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda