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