"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."
"Desire, ask, believe, receive."
"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts."
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
"Do what you fear and fear disappears."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning." Psalms 30:5
"Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem."
"It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit."
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship."
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional."
"Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear"
"I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them."
"I've learned ... that when you're in love, it shows."
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
Editor's Favorite Quotes:
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller
"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
"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you." Benjamin Franklin
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." Benjamin Franklin
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin
"We have the best Congress that money can buy." Will Rogers
"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." Dr. Samuel Johnson
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." G.K. Chesterton
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." H. L. Mencken
"It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." Josh Billings
"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Woody Allen
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Winston Churchill
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert Hubbard
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men." Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." Benjamin Franklin
"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." I John 4:20
"The million little things that drop into your hands, the small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, and goes unchanging along His silent way." Helen Keller