I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:1
Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones.
Proverbs 28:13
We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings approval, and approval brings hope.
Romans 3:4-5
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Unknown
Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.
Proverbs 12:24
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Proverbs 15:32
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
Billy Graham
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
Anonymous
Since I know it is all for Christ’s good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
The one key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Vincent Van Gogh
You will never know a line is crooked unless you place a straight line next to it.
Socrates
Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Unknown
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone.
David J. Schwartz
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston Churchill
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Hannah More
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
Baruch Spinoza
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Unknown
Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
Kobi Yamada
Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.
Mark McGinnis
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you’re doing the impossible.
Saint Francis
Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Harold J. Smith
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
