“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas A. Edison“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
— Harper Lee“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
— Thomas A. Edison“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
— Andy Warhol“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
— John Quincy Adams“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
— Roy T. Bennett“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
— Jeanette Winterson“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”
— Anne Brontë“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
— Aberjhani“Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”
— St. John of the Cross“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
— Francis Bacon“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.”
— Traci L. Slatton“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
— Suzy Kassem“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
— Criss Jami