Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

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 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

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

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

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

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

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

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

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.– Frank Sinatra

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

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

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

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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Breathe, let go, and remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy

It needs to be said and heard—it’s okay to be who you are.” – Hailee Steinfeld

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katherine Hepburn

If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

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

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

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

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

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly, and forgive quickly.” – Paolo Coelho

Don’t worry about what others are doing. Do you!” – Russel Simmons

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

It doesn’t matter if thousands of people believe in you unless you believe in yourself.” -Maddy Malhotra

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” -Michael Jordan

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.” -David J. Schwartz

Stop thinking you’re doing it all wrong. Your path doesn’t look like anybody else’s because it can’t, it shouldn’t, and it won’t.” -Eleanor Brownn

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -Golda Meir

You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through.” -Rosalynn Carter

When you have confidence, you can do anything.” -Sloane Stevens

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." – Amelia Earhart

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." – Erica Jong

"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

Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out. David Weatherford

When you get to the point in your life where you can say, 'I praise the Lord no matter what happens,' that is a confidence that you won't find anywhere in Hollywood, on Capitol Hill, or on Wall Street. That is a confidence built on a relationship with God!" Rick Warren

I can't tell you a better thing to help you raise your confidence level than to get in the Bible and start believing what God says about you." Rick Warren 😊😊

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. "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

10. "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.

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

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

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

14. "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

15. "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

16. "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

17. "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

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

19. "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

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

21. "Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."  –C. S. Lewis

22. "This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet." - Beth Moore

24. "Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life." - Charles Stanley

25. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

26. "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

27. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa

28. "The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm." - Matt Chandler

29. "Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill

30. "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” - John Piper

31. "Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -  Elisabeth Elliot

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

33. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

34. "The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

35. "The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm." - Matt Chandler

36. "God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony." - Christine Caine

37. "What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God." - Rick Warren

38. "Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright." -Oswald Chambers

39. "We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose." - Priscilla Shirer

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

You will find it is necessary to let things go, simply for the reason that they are too heavy.”

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”

Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.”

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”

God takes our sins – the past, present, and future, and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says NO FISHING ALLOWED.”

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”

Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves.”

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.” 

What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”

With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be…”

If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.”

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson 

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr. 

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life) 

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld 

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine 

Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) 

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton 

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson 

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier 

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle 

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville 

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang 

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon 

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 (God Came Near) 

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

If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.--Lane Olinghouse 

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.--Shirley Temple Black (Child Stars) 

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.--Eric Hoffer 

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.--Ayn 

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.--Neil Peart 

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.--Thomas Jones 

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source) 

Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger 

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd 

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers 

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous 

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart) 

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.--Dutch Proverb 

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.--William Penn 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.--John Quincy Adams 

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.--Jean de LaFontaine 

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.--Henri Nouwen (Bread For the Journey) 

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 has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.--George Jackson 

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.--Lida Clarkson ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884) 

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal) 

Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer 

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.--Fulton J. Sheen 

Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi 

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus 

Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine 

Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed 

Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.--Bantu proverb 

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.--Charles Caleb Colton 

Patience will achieve more than force.--Edmund Burke

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 

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart) 

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant 

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer 

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design) 

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell 😉😉😇👼