~ Strength, Confidence & Hope Quotes ~
I was always looking outside myself for
strength & confidence, but it comes
from within. It is there all the time
~ Anna Freud ~
If you're afraid of dyin' & you're holdin'
on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
But if you've made your peace, then the devils
are really angels freeing you from the earth
~ Jacobs Ladder ~
To be yourself in a world that is
constantly trying to make you something
else is the greatest accomplishment
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
When you reach for the stars,
you may not quite get them,
but you won't come up with
a handful of mud either
~ Leo Burnett ~
Hope, like faith,
is nothing if
it is not courageous;
it is nothing if
it is not ridiculous
~ Thornton Wilder ~
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done
~ Marie Curie ~
It is as hard to see one's self as to
look backwards without turning around
~ Thoreau ~
Character cannot be developed in ease & quiet.
Only through experience of trial & suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,
& success achieved
~ Helen Keller ~
You cannot find yourself, only create yourself
~ Anne B. Sekel ~
Sometimes I hear my voice & it's been here,
silent all these years
~ Tori Amos ~
It isn't until you come to a
spiritual understanding of who you are-
not necessarily a religious feeling,
but deep down, the spirit within -
that you can begin to take control
~ Oprah ~
Lord grant that I may always desire
more than I can accomplish
~ Michaelangelo ~
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will
~ John Atkinson ~
I have not failed. I have just
found 10,000 ways that won't work
~ Thomas Alva Edison ~
On the mountains of truth
you can never climb in vain:
either you will reach a point higher up today,
or you will be training your powers so that
you will be able to climb higher tomorrow
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The stars are constantly shining,
but often we do not see them
until the dark hours
~ Earl Riney ~
You gain strength, courage, &
confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in
the face. You must do the thing which
you think you cannot do
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Our greatest glory is not in never falling
but in rising every time we fall
~ Confucius ~
Failure is not falling down,
but refusing to get up
~ Chinese Proverb ~
Pray that your lonliness may spur you
into finding something to live for,
great enough to die for
~ Dag Hammarskjold ~
What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared to
What lies within us
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The backbone of surprise
is fusing speed with secrecy
~ Von Clausewitz ~
Every conquering temptation represents a new
fund of moral energy. Every trial endured &
weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler
and stronger than it was before
~ William Butler Yeats ~
Strength does not come from physical
capacity. It comes from an indomitable will
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
I do not believe in failure. It is not
failure if you enjoyed the process
~ Oprah ~
Never fear shadows.
They simply mean there's
a light shining somewhere nearby
~ Ruth E. Renkel ~
Character builds slowly,
but it can be torn down
with incredible swiftness
~ Faith Baldwin ~
Dreams are renewable. No matter
what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us
& new beauty waiting to be born
~ Dr. Dale Turner ~
There are things that are so serious
that you can only joke about them
~ Heisenberg ~
We all walk in the dark & each of us
must learn to turn on his or her own light
~ Earl Nightingale ~
The door to your cage is open. All you
have to do is walk out...if you dare
~ George Lucas ~
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is sort of a splendid torch that
I have got hold of for the moment
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
And you should consider every day lost
on which we have not danced at least once
~ Nietszche ~
In order to find the edge,
you must risk going over the edge
~ Dennis Dugan ~
All that we see or seem is
but a dream within a dream
~ Edgar Allen Poe ~
Do not quench your inspiration & your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model
~ Vincent van Gogh ~
Think like a queen. A queen is
not afraid to fail. Failure is another
stepping-stone to greatness
~ Oprah ~
Death is not the most tragic loss in life.
The most tragic loss is what dies inside
of you while you're still alive
Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well
~ Josh Billings ~
There is only one thing more painful than
learning from experience & that is not
learning from experience
~ Archibald McLeish ~
I like living. I have sometimes been
wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,
racked with sorrow, but through it all I
still know quite certainly that just to be
alive is a grand thing
~ Agatha Christie ~
The pessimist complains about the wind;
optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails
~ William Arthur Ward ~
Turn your wounds into wisdom
~ Oprah ~
We grow a little every time we do not
take advantage of somebody's weakness
~ Bern Williams ~
I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress
and grow brave by reflection
~ Thomas Paine ~
The most important thing in life
is not the triumph but the struggle.
The essential thing is not to have
conquered but to have fought well
~ Pierre de Courbertin ~
Every winner has scars
~ Herbert Casson ~
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary
~ Seneca ~
The difference between the impossible & the
the possible lies in a person's determination
~ Tommy Lasorda ~
One day in retrospect the years of struggle
will strike you as the most beautiful
~ Sigmund Freud ~
Dreams can often become challenging,
but challenges are what we live for
~ Travis White ~
Don't cry when the sun is gone,
because the tears won't
let you see the stars
~ Violeta Parra ~
Our deepest wishes are
whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Do the thing you fear most
& the death of fear is certain
~ Mark Twain ~
When we speak we are afraid our
words will not be heard or welcomed.
But when we are silent, we are still afraid.
So it is better to speak
~ Audre Lorde ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, &
effaces from your mind what is unnecessary
~ Maurice Baring ~
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
My dreams were all my own;
I accounted for them to nobody;
They were my refuge when annoyed-
My dearest pleasure when free
~ Mary Shelly ~
We are all in the gutter, but some
of us are looking at the stars
~ Oscar Wilde ~
It isn't what they say about you;
it's what they whisper
~ Errol Flynn ~
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
& when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance
~ LeAnn Womack ~
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you,
the better you will hear what is sounding outside
~ Dag Hammarskjold ~
For long you live & high you fly
& smiles you'll give & tears you'll cry
& all that you touch & all that you see
is all your life will ever be
~ Pink Floyd ~
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have
& take the step into the darkness of the unknown,
we must believe that one of two things will happen.
There will be something solid for us to stand on
or we will be taught to fly
~ Patrick Overton ~
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.
~ Marianne Williamson ~
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most
of the time he will pick himself up and continue on
~ Sir Winston Churchill ~
We do not what we ought,
What we ought not we do,
And lean upon the thought
That Chance will bring us through
~ Matthew Arnold ~
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain;
I will lay me down for to bleed a while,
Then I'll rise and fight with you again
~ John Dryden ~
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what
it might appear to others that what you were or might
have been was not otherwise than what you had been
would have appeared to them to be otherwise
~ Lewis Carroll ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and abstacles vanish
~ John Quincy Adams ~
Hope arouses, as nothing else can
arouse, a passion for the possible
~ William Sloan Cofin, Jr. ~
We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth
and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper
of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong
in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
~ Josh Bell ~
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change, the
fear of the unknown & I have gone ahead despite the pounding in
my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far
~ Erica Jong ~
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears-of falling, of the dark,
of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark or speaking before a
Rotary Club & of the words "Some Assembly Required"
~ Dave Barry ~
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings
~ Amelia Earhart ~
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol
of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth.
We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain & all of
the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn
something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would
never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate
our spirits through the events that happen to us
~ Lynn V. Andrews ~
Dreams are part of our heart and soul. Our
dreams go to the depths of our thoughts, wants,
& needs to fulfill our destiny. In order to
fulfill our destiny we must fulfill our dreams
~ J.R. Davis ~
We never know the timber of a man's
soul until something cuts into him deeply
& and brings the grain out strong
~ Gene Stratton Porter ~
At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in
a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this sea of chaos
at bay & amp; not let it wash us away into utter chaos
~ Sanjeeva Ananthan ~
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome
with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is
a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the
bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll
make the sofa in the end
~ Pam Brown ~
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't
learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, & if we
didn't learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, & if we got
sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful
~ Buddha ~
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