The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live…--Dorothy Thompson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

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

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

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

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

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

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

Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp

I always entertain great hopes." — Robert Frost

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” ~ Ronald Reagan

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

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham

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

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 Radmach

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

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

It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” ~ Amanda Ray

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~  Seneca

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

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

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs

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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”~ Hermann Hesse

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

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

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

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

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.” ~  Cesar Chavez

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.” ~ Epictetus

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.” ~ Atticus

“Even the darkest tunnel has an end and soon their will be light”. ~Invajy

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ~ Joshua Graham

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen

“God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.” – Joel Osteen

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.” – Joel Osteen

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.” – Joel Osteen

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” – Joel Osteen

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you’ll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.” – Joel Osteen

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.” – Joel Osteen

You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.” – Joel Osteen

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.” – Joel Osteen

Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.” – Joel Osteen

 “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)

“There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.”  ~ A. J. Gossip (Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology)

“By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.” ~ A. T. Pierson (American Presbyterian Pastor)

“The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.”  ~ A. W. Tozer (American Preacher and Author)

“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”  ~ Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian)

Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”

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

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life, and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt 

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

The  friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” – Barbara Kingsolver

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” Ed Cunningham

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

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.” – 

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”- Albert Camus

The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.”  — Hubert Humphrey

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller

Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

“Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.”

“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications

“We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.”

We are product of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”  

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“I don’t know the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

Life, Love and Purpose

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” 

“Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye…”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.”  

“Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”  

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.” Oswald Chambers

If God is diligent, surely we ought to be diligent in doing our duty to Him.  Think how patient and diligent God has been to us!  -Oswald Chambers

Trusting in my own mental understanding becomes a hindrance to complete trust in God.  Oswald Chambers

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. Oswald Chambers

The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance Oswald Chambers

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” Oswald Chambers

Look back over your own history, as revealed to you by grace, and you will see one central fact growing large—God is love.” Oswald Chambers

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God’s hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him. – Oswald Chambers

Our true character comes out in the way we pray. Oswald Chambers

 To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both."

-St. Catherine of Siena.

3. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

-Coco Chanel.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."Steve Jobs.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever." Lana Del Rey.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."Maya Angelou.

A brave man could think. A coward couldn't."Stephen King.

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength."Gwenda Bond.

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both."Neel Burton.

Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning."

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

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

”In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” –  Fritz Knapp

”A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

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

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

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

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

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

Life is so much brighter when we focus on what truly matters.”

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most our of it every single day.”

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow simply because life is too short for anything else.”

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

You are deciding your life right now. Be intentional, don’t be defined by what you didn’t do.”

Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for.”

Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string — the pearls lie scattered on the ground.”  ~ Charles  H. Spurgeon (Nineteenth Century English Preacher)

“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)

 “Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.” Napoleon Hill

“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.” Napoleon Hill

“Do it now!” Napoleon Hill

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” Napoleon Hill

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” Napoleon Hill

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.” Napoleon Hill

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” Napoleon Hill

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

I don’t walk away from things I think are unfinished. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

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

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

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

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

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

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.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill

 Embrace your inner childhood dreams.” Anonymous

“Dare to dream.” Anonymous

“Be brave, fight for what you belive in and make your dreams a reality.” Anonymous

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Anonymous

Doing what you belive in, and going after your dreams will only result in success.” Anonymous

“Chase after your dreams.” Anonymous

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” George Lucas

“Dreams aren’t what you leave behind when morning comes. They are the stuff that fill your every living moment.” David Cuschieri

“If you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true.” Cinderella

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.” Leon Suenens

Someday all my dreams will come true.” Anonymous

“Dream big, it’s the first step to success.” Anonymous

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” Joel Brown

“Dreams are not what you see in sleep, it is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep.” A.P.J Abdul Kalam

“Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.” Nick Vujicic

“Never stop dreaming.” Anonymous

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” LL Cool J

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” Joel Osteen

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” Christopher Reeve

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

“Living a dream is the most thrilling adventure ever.” Anonymous

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.” Paracelsus

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.--Robert H. Schuller 

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.--James Womack 

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.--Belva Davis 

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.--Anonymous 

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes with a sharp stick called truth.--Dan Rather (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.--Fred Van Amburgh 

The dream is not the destination but the journey.--Diane Sawyer 

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.--Toni Cade Bambara