"Hope and Encouragement Quotes"
"Live a life that would make you jealous."
"There is nothing that lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies beyond the will of God."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Edwin Mensah --- Kumasi, Ghana
"Cowards and heroes both experience fear. It's what the hero does with the fear that makes him a hero."
Copyright © 2003 Mike Mitchell
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up."
Orel Hershiser
"Hit me hard, and I will bounce back. Kick me hard, and I will turn back. Put me on the floor and I will stand back. Put me in the grave and I will rise back. But dare you dream that I will never fight back."
Copyright © 2003 Sandip Dutta
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business; it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability; it is essential for human survival."
the Dalai Lama
"Life only allows you to move forward, because tomorrow you're a new person with past lessons."
Copyright © 2004 Huong Nguyen
Don't regret what you did, for it truly is something great after all. It made you the person who you are today.
"Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
King Whitney Jr.
"Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once your have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Doubt is undoubtedly a good thing."
Copyright © 2001 David Seaton
When I was going through a rough patch, a friend got me round to thinking that my dilemma was because I was thinking too much about the future. But yet, the fact that I was thinking about it at all was good for me as it meant that I was strong enough to face up to facts and not brush them aside and pretend they didn't exist.
"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."
James Allen
"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."
Ann Landers
"Sometimes humans beg for battles to be taken away from them, not realizing that only in struggling with shadows is the Light made manifest."
W. Michael Gear --- Submitted by Ashley R. --- Florida
"It is a wise man indeed, who well in advance, offers God all his thankfulness and praise, in anticipation of life's unavoidable trials, tribulations and pitfalls."
Copyright © 2004 Joseph P.Martino
"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand."
Ruth Graham
"Life is like a game of poker. You never know if you are going to get a good or bad hand. You have to take chances with the cards you have and maybe you'll win and the only way to win is to play."
Copyright © 2004 Courtney Cooper
"MOM is WOW spelled upside down."
Copyright © 2003 Steven Troy Larson
"Love is not a word; it's the world."
Written in 2004 by Dev Kishore
"Be as courageous as a lion. Don't back away from fear. Face it, head on, and conquer your fear."
Copyright © 2004 Michelle Robin
"I want you to always remember this....... In life it is never, ever, ever too late to change. Remember that ... hold on to that. At the bleakest of moments history has been made. Sometimes it's only at our darkest moments that we can see the light. There is always hope in life because there is always GOD."
Copyright © 2004 Christine Michelle
"To move on, seek God."
Written in 2004 by S.Aquisap --- Manila, Philippines