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Inspirational Quotes About Faith

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“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“Faith is reason grown courageous.” – Sherwood Eddy

“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Strength to carry on despite the odds means you have faith in your own abilities and know how.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.” – Blaise Pascal

“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.” – Dorothy Thompson

“Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.” – E.B. White

“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety.” – Josh Billings

“Faith is a passionate intuition.” – William Wordsworth

Motivational Quotes

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– “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton

– “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

– “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder

– “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

– “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

– “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire

– “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown

– “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

– “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague

– “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson

– “Fortune favors the brave.” – Publius Terence

– “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

– “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

– “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill

– “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” – Matthew Prior

– “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius

– “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley

Motivational Quotes for Overcoming Failure

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Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. – Roger Crawford

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James A. Michener

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George E. Woodberry

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Robert Galvin

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. – H. Stanley Judd

Motivational Quotes

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“Success is what you attract by the person you become” – Jim Rohn

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“To earn more, you must learn more.” – Brian Tracy

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.” – Christian D. Larson

“Your life only gets better, when you get better” – Brian Tracy

“The porr and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.” –Anonymous

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” – Brian Tracy

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard B. Sheridan

“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” – Albert Camus

“It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with what you have.” – Unknown

“It matters not what person is born, but who they choose to be.” – Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time” – Napoleon Hill

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.” – Talmud

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is dissapointment.” – William Arthur Ward

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Funny Motivational Sports Quotes

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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. – Bill Vaughn

On how to make the game more exciting – Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the center jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns. – Al McGuire

Fans never fall asleep at our games because they’re afraid they might get hit with a pass. – George Raveling

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. – Dave Barry

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative. – Dan Frisby

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long. – Jack Dolph (on basketball)

Even if you are on the right track… You’ll get run over if you just sit there! – Will Rogers