The following are some of my favorite quotes and excerpts: Go to: Page 2 >>
"Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.
Lewis Smedes
"Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Marlene vos Savant
"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C. S. Lewis
"Anyone can fight the battle of just one day at a time. It is only when we add the burden of yesterdays and tomorrows that contentment and peace of mind elude us. Therefore, we have to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and foster a positive attitude to deal with today better."
J. A. Romas & M. Sharma
"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
Bern Williams
"It is so hard for us to enjoy life if we don't have assurance about today, peace about yesterday and confidence about tomorrow. Why? Because as long as we live we will always have to face situations for which we don't have all the answers."
Joyce Meyer
"If Not for the Grace of God"
"....you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious--the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse."
Philippians 4:8
The Message
"Think about what you are thinking about."
Joyce Meyer
"Battlefield of the Mind"
"If you need to win then you will lose because you will be focused on what is at stake and not on the objective."
David J. Lieberman
"Get Anyone to Do Anything"
"Is your problem really your problem? Or, is your problem your attitude toward your problem?"
Joyce Meyer
"The Lost Art of Enjoying Life" (audio)
"There is wisdom in looking at a plant that has many
thorns and only one flower and calling it a rosebush rather than a thornbush." (I can focus on beauty rather than pain.)
G.B.E. Publishers (I Can)
"I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair." Martin Luther
"The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become."
Aristotle
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
Thomas A. Edison
"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions." Stephen Covey
"One of the best things about feeling discomfort is that it signals, before things get really bad, that something needs to change."
Susan Campbell, Ph.D.
"Getting Real"
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose the courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."
Author Unknown
"Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
"That which doesn't destroy me makes me stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Quit
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, when the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
when you're feeling low and the stress is high, and you to smile but you have to sigh,
when worries are getting you down a bit by all means pray and don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out, God's hidden gift in the clouds of doubt.
You never can tell how close you are it may be near when it seems so far.
So trust in the Lord when you're hardest hit. It's when things go wrong that you must not quit!
