quotes
Believe
Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers
Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. - John Lilly
They can conquer who believe they can. - Virgil
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. - Hannah Senesh
To succeed, we must first believe that we can. - Michael Korda
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attitude
Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours? Bob Moawad
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental
attitude. Thomas Jefferson
“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”
Vince Lombardi
“Be careful around those individuals who have bought into negativity
because they have the uncanny ability of selling it as well.”
“A smile brightens the darkest day”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition.”
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” Mary Kay Ash
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” Carol Burnett
“He who forgives ends the quarrel.” “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others,
without being crippled by your own judgment.”
“You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.”
“I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.” Thomas Edison
“Although the world is full of suffering, it's full also of the overcoming it.” Helen Keller
“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see
the ones which open for us.” Alexander Graham Bell
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of
life can restore your faith in yourself.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
Belief in others
“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make
him what he should be.“
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting
of confusion, misery and death.” Anne Frank
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a
million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that
you too, can become great.” Mark Twain
Encouragement
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
“Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.” Note how good you feel after you
have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give
encouragement.”
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and
we will make the goal.”
Appreciation
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Margaret Cousins
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.”
“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their
pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”
“Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
“If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
“Find the good—and praise it.”
Courage
“We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to
be effective and bring happiness.”
“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike,
timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and
courage in a personal commitment to [their] ideals.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“As for courage and will we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry
through trials which may lie ahead.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”
“He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.”
“Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Teamwork
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“When building a team, always look for people who love to win. If you can’t find any of those, search for people who hate to lose.”
“In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is
much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for
today, begins where competition leaves off.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Family
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an
impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge
hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
~Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's
desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant,
loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
~Thomas Jefferson
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
~George Bernard Shaw
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't
heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our
daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
~Dodie Smith
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
~Kendall Hailey
In time of test, family is best.
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
~Marsha Norman
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes
and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
~George Eliot
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Community
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I
want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now
because our neighbors are so many. ~Lady Bird Johnson
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of
others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~Nathaniel
Hawthorne
"Independence"... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village
problems. ~Martin H. Fischer
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
Kindness
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
Compassion is the basis of all morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Ettiene De Grellet
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. - Margaret Cho
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. - Amelia Earhart
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. - Barbara De Angelis
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. - Eric Hoffer
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Goethe
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. - The Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - The Dalai Lama
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. - Harold Kushner
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - James M Barrie
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Philo
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. - Samuel Johnson
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. - Scott Adams
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness. - Seneca
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. - Talmud
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Rubin
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. - William Menninge
Much effort, much prosperity.
~Euripides
Effort
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. - Jane Addams
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. - John Wesley
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. - Vince Lombardi
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tire and discouraged men who kept on working.
What is not stated today is never finished tomorrow. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. - Dave Weinbaum
The achievement of an organization are the results of the combined efforts of each individual. - Vince Lombardi
Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocies
We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. - Zig Ziglar
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. - James Allen
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt
Much effort, much prosperity. - Euripides
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that i didn’t have a chance to win. - Arnold Palmer
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from
crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich
Nietzsche
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
Now I know, a refuge never grows from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. ~Indigo Girls
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln
The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun
If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare
wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who
did his job well. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~José Ortega y Gassett
People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. ~Chinese Saying
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph
de Maistre
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ~Ulysses S. Grant
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. ~Author
Unknown
Doors don't slam open. ~John M. Shanahan
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~Gloria Pitzer
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want
if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb
Faith
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. - Confucious
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith. - WH Auden
Faith makes all things possible.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Fear can keep us up all night, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. - George Seaton
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. - Hahlil Gibran
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - St. Thomas Aquinas
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. - Henry David Thoreau
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Lutheer King Jr
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as the will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. - Emmanuel Teney
Faith will move mountains. - proverb
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
Living without faith is like driving in a fog. - proverb
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne
Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster
Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth
To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well -
even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that
she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo
Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown
Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within
itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward
Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they
will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown
Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.
~Friedrich Nietzche
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding
Dreams
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believ - Anatole France
Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John F Kennedy
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. - Winifred Holtby
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. - Edward Kennedy
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one. - John Lennon
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. - Marcel Proust
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinowitz
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every
man a Dante or Shakespeare. ~H.F. Hedge
Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The Talmud
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman
A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar Cayce
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri Amiel
There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran
Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Astrid Alauda
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little
Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing
about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to
that which is real within ourself. ~Paracelsus
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
~Wordsworth
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type
of girl that way. ~Vivian Mercer
Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill
Watterson
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear. ~Samuel Lover
In a dream you are never eighty. ~Anne Sexton
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance
to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich
Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud. ~Grey Livingston
Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. ~Grey Livingston
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~T. Guillemets
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep. ~Astrid Alauda
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment
when we are asleep than when we are awake. ~Erich Fromm
Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping
slowly appear in the dreams. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre
For a dreamer, night's the only time of day. ~From the movie Newsies
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ~Michel de Montaigne
Equality
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no
social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
~Bertrand Russell
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~John James Ingalls
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes
a war betwixt princes. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that
everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~René
Descartes
The people like us are We, And everyone else is They. ~Rudyard Kipling
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. ~Bernard M. Baruch
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you
didn't know what you know today. ~Malcolm X
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. ~Albert Einstein
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Change
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones. ~V.L. Allineare
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Author
unknown
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions
die. ~W.H. Auden
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! ~Andre Gide
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten
years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman
Life
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. - Barbara Hall
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein
Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M Barrie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. - Norman Thomas
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Sir Winston Churchill
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. - Wally Famous Amos
Life is just a chance to grow a soul. - A Powell Davies
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. - Albert Einstein
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr
People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. - Chinese Proverb
Only when we are no longer afraid do we truly begin to live. - Dorothy Thomas
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. - Elizabeth Drew
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. - Frederick Beuchner
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. - George Bernard Shaw
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. The Dalai Lama
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. - Henri Frederick Amiel
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - Henry James
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. - Joan Baez
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Maria Mitchell
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver
Where there is love there is life. - Mohandas K Gandhi
Live your life and forget your age. - Norman Vincent Peale
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. - Raymond Charles Barker
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours? - Roy H. Williams
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. - Stephen Covey
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo
Love
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. - Blaise Pascal
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. - Erica Jong
There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. - Jane Anouilh
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. - Margaret Cho
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. - William Shakespear
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. - Amy Bloom
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. - Barbara De Angelis
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- I Corinthians 13:4-8
Whoso loves, believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barret Browning
We need not think alike to love alike. - Francis David
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P Jones
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. - The Dalai Lama
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. WH Murray
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King Jr
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. - Mohandas K Gandhi
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. - Mother Teresa
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
- Roy Croft
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi
Happiness
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. - Al Batt
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. - Bertrand Russell
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morely
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. - Oprah Winfrey
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K Chalmers
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. - Buddha
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. - Helen Keller
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. - Horace Friess
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - James M Barrie
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. - Martha Washington
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. - Peyton Conway March
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Nanh
Hope
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. - H Jackson Brown Jr
Hope is only the love of life. - Henri-Frederic Amiel
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. - Robert H Goddard
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K Chalmers
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie
Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. - Albert Einstein
In all things it is better to hope than to despair. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope is the dream of a soul awake. French proverb
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to make you human, enough hope to make you happy.
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. - George Weinberg
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. - George Iles
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. - Jean Kerr
Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. - Emil Brunner
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel
Where there's life, there's hope. - Terence
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
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
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. - proverb
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. - William Sloan Coffin
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you an do is live inside that hope. - Barbara Kingsolver
Change
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold
Wilson
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one
life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is
difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which
will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is
often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ~Washington Irving
When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
~Euripides
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. ~Laurens van
der Post
Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Pete
