"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead."
— Paula White

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
— Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for"
— Oliver James

"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values."
— Bill Ayers

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

"My religion is kindness"
— Dalai Lama XIV

"once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit"
— vince lombard

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

"Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)

""And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.""
— Holy Bible: I Corinthians: 13

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
— Laozi

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
— Francis Of Assisi

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
— Albert Einstein

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
— Victor Hugo

"In order to know who you are you need to know God is."
— Annette Hoggs-Jackson

"I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God)

"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

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— Anthony Robbins

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
— Stephen Covey

"Who would bring light must endure burning."
— David Zindell (The Wild)

"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.

"... criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require _practice_, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
— Gloria Steinem

"The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today"
— Francis Of Assisi

"It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers"
— Alexandra Robbins

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .""
— Charles Spurgeon

"The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement."
— Don Roff

""The smartest warrior you could ever hope to be is the one that will never need to fight.""
— Jack Tarpon

"Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking"
— Anita Roddick

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
— Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers)

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it."
— Maimonides