Friday, May 26, 2023

 Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

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

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts.” – Earl Nightingale

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

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

Adventure may hurt but monotony will kill you.” – Unknown

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.” – Muhammad Ali

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

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

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.” – Tony Robbins

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” – John Assaraf

Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli

The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hil

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

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma

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

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin

Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins

Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Larry Elder

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

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

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





 An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.” – John Steinbeck 61 Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” – Shannon L. Adler

“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” – Aristotle

“You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.” – Shannon Alder

“The willingness to show up changes us, it makes us a little braver each time.” – Brené Brown

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.” – John Steinbeck

You can and you will. The difficulty of it, is why you must.” – Charles Rhoades

“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

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” – Brené Brown

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

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett

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

No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle

He who is brave is free.” – Seneca

Take the risk or lose the chance.” – Unknown

Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

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

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

Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

 The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

“You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” – Ann Landers

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” – Shannon L. Adler

“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” – Aristotle

“You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.” – Shannon Alder

“The willingness to show up changes us, it makes us a little braver each time.” – Brené Brown

 It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – R.R. Tolkien

“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” –Bethany Hamilton

“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” – Veronica Roth

“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

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – JoyBell C.

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” – Timothy Dalton

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” – Paulo Coelho

“Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.” – Zig Ziglar

“Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don’t always have the guts to make it.” – Ray N. Kuili

“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” – Ruth Gordon

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” – Victor Hugo

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Landers

“Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.” – Robert Fanney

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” – M. Forster

“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown

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

“He who is brave is free” – Seneca

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.” – Criss Jami

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

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” – Madeleine L’Engle

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” – Criss Jami

“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” – Christopher Paolini

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” – S. Lewis

“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker

 With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” —Thomas Fowell Buxton

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” —Napoleon Hill

A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” —Jim Watkins

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

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”―J. M. Barrie

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”―Jodi Picoult

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”―Theodore Roosevelt

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

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”―e e cummings

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”―bell hooks

“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”―Tina Fey

“To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.”―Roy T. Bennett

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!”―Jesse Jackson

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”―Henry David Thoreau

“For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it.”―Kiera Cass

“Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.”―Sean Beaudoin

“Self-confidence is contagious.”―Stephen Richards

“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.”―Jean Vanier

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”―Henry Stanley Haskins

"Life is tough, but so are you." –Carmi Grau, Super Nice Letters

"Be kinder to yourself, and celebrate little wins." –Charlotte, The Fringe of It

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill

"I’m going to keep showing up as my best self and stay focused on my own path. That’s how I know I’ll win." –@bossbabe

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." –Maya Angelou

Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways." –Glennon Doyle Melton

"You sometimes lose by taking risks, but you always lose by holding back." –Rachel Wolchin

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious." –Rumi

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." –Helen Keller

"We are cups constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." –Ray Bradbury

"Make no comparisons. Keep your head down and do your own thing." –Torrie Asai

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

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” –Cicero

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” ­–Marie Curie

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” ­–George Washington

“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

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” –Mark Twain

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” –Mitch Albom

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” –Louise May Alcott

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” –Norman Vincent Peale

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” –Truman Capote


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

Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.” Catherine Pulsifer

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

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

Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” — Anonymous

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

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

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." — Misty Copeland

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read and old friends to enjoy.” — Henry Ford

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”– Ally Condie

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

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

True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Anonymous

36. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.” — Anonymous

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald

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

Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

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

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” —Michael Jordan

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)

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

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” —Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” —Julie Andrews

Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” —Benjamin Disraeli

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather

We will either find a way or make one.” —Hannibal

It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier

 Keep faith. The most amazing things in life tend to happen right at the moment you’re about to give up hope.” Anonymous

Faith. It’s all about believing. You don’t know how it will happen. But you know it will.” Anonymous

Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.” Anonymous

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep the faith. It will all be worth it in the end.” Anonymous

Faith. It does not make things easy, it makes them possible.” Anonymous

Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” Anonymous

Faith is like WiFi. It’s invisible, but it has the power to connect you to what you need.” Anonymous

True peace comes from knowing that God is in control.” Anonymous

Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” Anonymous

Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” Sonia Ricotti

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Don’t worry. God is always on time. Trust him.” Anonymous

If one has faith, one has everything.” Ramakrish

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.” Anonymous

Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.” Anonymous

Feed your faith and your fear will starve.” Anonymous

The principal part of faith is patience.” George MacDonald

When you have come to the edge, faith is knowing you will be taught to fly.” Anonymous

  Experience teaches only the teachable.” Aldous Huxley The best lessons I ever learned in life came from the worst experiences in my life....