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

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

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison

 Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ”~ Robert Schuller

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”~ Swami Vivekananda

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

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

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”  ~ Oscar Wilde

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

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins

 “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” ~ Anne Frank

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” ~Joe Kennedy

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ~ Chris Grosser

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

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” ~  Edgar Allan Poe

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow

“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ Lolly Daskal

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” ~ Les Brown

“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

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

“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” ~ Matty Mullens

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~ Victor Hugo 

“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” ~ Terence McKenna

“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” ~ Carl Jung

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The only reason we get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory.” ~ Ashton Leinen

“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” ~ Victor Hugo

 “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

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day

“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier

“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 D. Rockefeller

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” ~ Robert H Schuller

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

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end. ”~ Fernando Sabino

 “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

 

• “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

• “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

• “The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

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

 "The message I preach hasn't changed. Circumstances have changed. Problems have changed, but deep inside man has not changed, and the gospel hasn't changed."

"The only hope for enduring peace is Jesus Christ."

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

he cross shows us the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.”

“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.”

“Quit beating yourself up. We all live under grace and do the best we can.”

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.” —Max Lucado

“Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no, it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.” —Max Lucado

"Nothing lifts the weary soul like the promises of God." —Max Lucado

“When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.” —Max Lucado

“The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message

of life in a dark world.” —Max Lucado

We are building our lives on the promises of God. Because his Word is unbreakable, our hope is unshakable. We do not stand on the problems of life or the pain in life. We stand on the great and precious promises of God.” —Max Lucado

“A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances.” —Max Lucado

“It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.” —Max Lucado

“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.” —Max Lucado

“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.” —Max Lucado

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.” —Max Lucado

“If you've been trembling on a tightrope of fear and worry, may I suggest the best solution ever? A trade. An exchange: your cares for God's calm.” —Max Lucado

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.” —Max Lucado

“You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it. Exploring and extracting your uniqueness excites you, honors God, and expands his kingdom.” —Max Lucado

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. Faith is the belief that God will do what is right.” —Max Lucado

“You are the only you God made ... God made you and broke the mold.” —Max Lucado

“God does not judge you according to the talents of others. He judges you according to yours. His yardstick for measuring faithfulness is how faithful you are with your own gifts.” —Max Lucado

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

 "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

"Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

"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." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody

"You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." - John MacArthur

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain." - Randy Alcorn

 "God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

"Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one" - A.W.Tozer

"If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." - Elisabeth Elliot

 “There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

"Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie ten Boom

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

"God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

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

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

“Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

 “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

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

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford

 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

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

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” ― Margaret Mitchell

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

 “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”― L. Frank Baum

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” – Roy T. Bennett

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”― William Faulkner

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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

You have to dream before your dreams can come true. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. Michael Phelps

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

It was all a dream. The Notorious B.I.G.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell

Dream big. Start small. Act now. Robin Sharma

Think, believe, dream, and dare. Walt Disney

Let your dreams be your wings. Unknown

In dreams begins responsibility. W. B. Yeats

You get one life. Make it count. Shane Parrish

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”

“God proved his love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

“Christ not only died for all: he died for each.”

 “Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.”

“When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God."

 Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison

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

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” 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

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

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Helen Keller

“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Helen Keller

 “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller

 “Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.” Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller

“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)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”

“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

 “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

 “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

 “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

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 experiences.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Be confident, not certain.”

“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

 Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

  We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

Go the extra mile, there’s no one on it. – Grant Cardone

 It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

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