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

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

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 AddisonHope 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

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 Fulle

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 New! as of 04/01/17

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.--Anne Bradstreet

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)

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.--Dale E. Turner

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.--Steven Callahan

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)

 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 

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell 

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.--James Allen 

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.--Anais Nin 

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.--John Lennon

If can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.--William Arthur Ward 

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.--Tony Gaskins 

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them!--Henry David Thoreau 

If you try to guard yourself against every unlikely danger, you'll never stretch beyond your comfort zone. Don't let the 'what-ifs' run your life. Follow your dreams and have at it.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true!--James Allen 

Life is never easy for those who dream.--Robert James Waller ("Border Music") 

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 

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous

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

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

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 

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 Adenaue

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) 

 Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” Anonymous

“When life gets harder, challenge yourself to be stronger.” Anonymous

“Life is full of challenges, but these challenges are only given to you because God knows your faith is strong enough to get you through them.” Anonymous

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.” Anonymous

“There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” Anonymous

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” Paulo Coelho

“When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” Anonymous

There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” Sean Connery

“I’m accepting the challenge.” Robert Whaley

“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” Anonymous

“The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself ina world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” Anonymous

“The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity for growth.” Anonymous

If you don’t challenges yourself, you will never realize what you can become.” Anonymous

“Be thankful for each new challenge because it will build your strength and character.” Anonymous

“If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” Fred Devito

Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances.” Robert Tew

“We are not defined by our challenges but lifted up by them.” Anonymous

“The moment you stop accpeting challenges, si the moment you stop moving forward.” Anonymous

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” Anonymous

 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 Eliot

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

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

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

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

 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

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

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

 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

Thinking "I failed" is a copout! It lets you off the hook. Game over, dude. I am not about to let you off so easily. Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. This method of thinking requires a lot more energy than "I blew it." Instead, explode your limiting mindset. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity?-Devora Zack (Networking for People Who Hate Networking) 

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.--Richard M. DeVos 

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

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

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

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

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

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 Cain

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

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

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

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." —Bob Marley