Failure - Quotes

Failure does not mean you …

… accomplished nothing; It means you have learned something.

… are inferior; It means you are not perfect.

… do not have it; It means you have to do something in a different way.

… have been a fool; It means you had a lot of faith.

… have been disgraced; It means you were willing to try.

… should give up; It means you must try harder.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard

A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. - B. F. Skinner

A failure usually establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

Better to fail in the pursuit of the noble, than to succeed in the search for the mean. - Ivan Panin

Companies fail when they continue doing for too long that which made them successful in the past. - John Young

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. - Sivananda

Do not thin of today’s failure, but of the success that may come tomorrow. - Helen Keller

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 okay to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. - H. Stanley Judd

Don’t be embarrassed by your failures. Learn from them and start again. - Sir Richard Branson

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. - Louis E. Boone

Don't fear failure – Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Bruce Lee

Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. - Sherman Finesilver 

Every failure is a step to success. - William Whewell

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot

Failures are a part of life. If you don’t fail, you’ll never learn. If you don’t learn, you’ll will never change. - Unknown

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure. It just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert Schuller

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence. - Zig Ziglar

Failure is a chance to rediscover and improve yourself. Every failure lets you discover your strengths and weaknesses and gives you an opportunity to work on them. - Unknown

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. - Zig Ziglar

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share. - Steve Harvey

Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, but the best. - Unknown

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey

Failure is just another part of the culture of innovation. Accept it and become stronger. - Albert Yu

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. - Unknown

Failing is not just an option when you quit. It is inevitable. - Michelle A. Homme

Failure is not the enemy, but a life-changing experience. It is a human experience, and it prepares the way for us to grow and transform our lives. - Sobonfu Somé

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. - Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm S Forbes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

Failure is the mother of success. - Unknown

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - Unknown

Failures are but mileposts on the road to success. - Unknown

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C. S. Lewis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. - H. Ross Perot

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. - Augustus Hare

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more. - Ivan Panin

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them. - Sarah Dessen

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. - Calvin Coolidge

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. -Robert Silliman Hillyer 

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

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly! - Ransom Riggs

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas J. Watson, Snr

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen 

In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail. - Longinus

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. - David Viscott

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. -Charles Kettering

It is better to try and fail than never to have tried at all. - Unknown

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default. - J.K. Rowling

It is okay to experience a stay in the ‘house of failure’ as long you do not get the thrill of staying there permanently. - Unknown

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. - Charlotte Whitton

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. - Ken Kesey

Many great people have experience some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice. - Donald Trump

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall. - Jeannette Walls

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. - Eckhart Tolle

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

No man fails who does his best. - Orison Swett Marden

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are… To everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on. - Jerry Zucker

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

One great cause of failure is the lack of concentration. - Unknown

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert Kennedy

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. - Marquis De Vauvenargues

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. if one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. - Lao Tzu

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston

Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. - Unknown

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. - Unknown 

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. - Roger von Oech

So, you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. - Tom Robbins

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. - Edward Dowden

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting. - William James

The failures of the past prepare the triumphs of the future. - Max Muller

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. - Chinese Proverb

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find. - E. H. Chapin

The hallmark of a failure is, almost without exception, a person who is indecisive and changes his decisions very often. - Unknown

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. - Napoleon Hill

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. - Sir Humphry Davy

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying. - John C. Maxwell

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. - Buddha

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. - Unknown

The only time you do not fail is the last time you try anything – and it works. - William Strong

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. - Edwin Percy Whipple

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. - Paramahansa Yogananda

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. - Orison Swett Marden

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. - Sivananda

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that – to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. - George Eliot

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. - Bill Wilson

Time and again we fail ... and each time we fail, we rise up again and continue, determined this time to fail better. - Paul McCauley

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. - W. Somerset Maugham

To fail is a natural consequence of trying. To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. - David Viscott

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure. - Charles Tomlinson

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. - Chester Barnard

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. - Unknown

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. - David Grayson

We learn from failure, not from success! - Bram Stoker

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life. - John W. Gardner

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. - Unknown

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still do not win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. - Rosalynn Carter

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash

You can't let your failures define you – you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. - Barack Obama

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed. - Edwin H. Land

You never fail until you stop trying. - Unknown

You only fail if you do less than your best! - Unknown

Gardens / Gardening - Quotes

A garden always gives back more than it receives. - Mara Beamish

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul. - Sadi

A garden is a friend you can visit any time. - Unknown

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. - Gertrude Jekyll

A garden is never so good as it will be next year. - Thomas Cooper

A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign. - Nan Fairbrother

A garden is the best alternative therapy. - Germaine Greer

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms. - Henry Beston

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. - Russell Page

A garden requires patient labour and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfil good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden that one makes oneself, becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. - Alfred Austin

A good garden may have some weeds. - Thomas Fuller

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Any garden demands as much of its maker as he has to give. But I do not need to tell you, if you are a gardener, that no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort put into it. - Elizabeth Lawrence 

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. - May Sarton

E'vn in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates. - William Cowper

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals. - Henry Beard and Roy McKie

Gardening is a labour full of tranquillity and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. - John Evelyn

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. - Author Unknown

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. - Lindley Karstens

Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe. - Thomas Berry

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience. - Marina Schinz

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas – working with nature provides the technique. - Elizabeth Murray 

Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. - Lou Erickson

However big or small your garden is, if you allow nature to touch your spirit, gardening will bring returns of peace, satisfaction, and well-being for as long as you continue to wander the garden path. - Norman H. Hansen

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. - David Hobson

I've learned that keeping a vegetable garden is worth a medicine cabinet full of pills. - Unknown 

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. - Unknown

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. - James Douglas

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So, we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet. - Jane Goodall

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. - Karel Capek

Man was not made to rust out in idleness. A degree of exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health, both of body and mind, as his daily food. And what exercise is more fitting, or more appropriate of one who is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a well-ordered garden? What more enlivens the sinking mind? What is more conducive to a long life? - Joseph Breck

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale

Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends – truly knows – that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden. - Henry Mitchell

Of all the ingredients we employ in the creation of a garden, scent is probably the most potent and the least understood. Its effects can be either direct and immediate, drowning our senses in a surge of sugary vapor, or they can be subtle and delayed, slowly wafting into our consciousness, stirring our emotions and coloring our thoughts. - Stephen Lacey

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. - Shakespeare

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Veronica A. Shoffstall

Scent is the most potent and bewitching substance in the gardener's repertory and yet it is the most neglected and least understood. The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it it detected. Each fragrance, whether sweet or spicy, light or heavy, comes upon you in its own way and evokes its own emotional response. - Stephen Lacey

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. - Alfred Austin

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. - May Sarton

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. - Alfred Austin

The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. He modifies the climate around his home. - John R. Whiting

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is. - Nikki

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. - Gertrude Jeky

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. - Vita Sackville-West

The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred. - Marjorie Harris

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. - Mirabel Osler

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? - Richard Dawkins

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. - Marcelene Cox

Whatever else seems pleasant at first apprehension, at length becomes dull by too long acquaintance. But the pleasures of a garden are every day renewed. A garden is the only complete delight the world affords, ever complying with our various and mutable Minds. - Unknown

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. - Minnie Aumonier

Faith - Quotes

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche  

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. - Arthur C. Clarke

Always have faith in yourself. It is not easy to live life sometimes and face the world with a smile when you’re crying inside. It takes a lot of courage to reach down inside yourself, hold on to that strength that’s still there, And know that tomorrow is a new day –  with new possibilities. But if you can just hold on long enough to see this through, you’ll come out a new person – stronger, with more understanding and with a new pride in yourself from knowing you made it. - Kathy Obara

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. - Emmanuel Teney 

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Theresa

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. - Unknown

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. - Gregory Peck

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. - Walt Disney

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is a cognitive illness disguise as a moral virtue. - Peter Boghossian

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. - Blaise Pascal

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. - Bruce Lee

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. - Cullen Hightower

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculation. - Joseph Addison

Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Scandinavian Proverb 

Faith is knowing the Sun will shine tomorrow morning, although it may be obscured by clouds. Faith is knowing in the midst of drought that eventually it will rain. Faith is knowing that a seed planted will reproduce after its own kind. Occasionally such faith is misplaced, yet we continue to believe the next time it will be justified. - Irene McDermott

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. - Elton Trueblood

Faith is one of the forces by which men live; and the total absence of it means collapse. - William James

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. - Unknown

Faith is seeing the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. - Unknown

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins

Faith is the key to unlock the door of success of every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that human being from ever experiencing success … As a positive power, faith is the promise of the realization of things hoped for and unseen. As a negative power, it is the premonition of our deepest fears and unseen darkness. There is no such thing as the absence of or lack of faith. There is simply the replacement of faith, with its opposite belief – despair. - Denis Waitley

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -  Hebrews

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe. - Bruce Lee

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. - Thomas N. Carruther

Faith will push you on when you see no light at the end of the tunnel. It buys you time until the light appears. - Unknown

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. - Unknown

Have faith. What is meant to be will always find it’s way. - Unknown

He who enters the sphere of faith enters into the sanctuary of life. - Paul Tillich

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges. - Muhammad Ali

People always demand respect for their faith. You’ve noticed this happening. Why should I respect someone who makes enormous claims on no evidence, and when confronted with that fact, says, “Well, I don’t need any evidence, I’ve got faith’. I think that extraordinary claims, such as that they know, not just that there is a god, but that they know his mind, they know his instructions, they’ve had revealed truth from him: a claim like that demands extraordinary evidence. Instead of which, they say, ‘No, how about no evidence at all, and just take me on faith?’ Why am I supposed to respect that? I don’t respect it. I suspect it. - Unknown

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The future always holds something for the man who keeps his faith in it. - H. L. Holli

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day. - Amy Gatliff

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. - Ralph Marston

The more knowledge you have, the less faith you need. - Unknown

The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. - Ronald Reagan

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self. - William James 

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. - Christian Nestell Bovee

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. - Louis L''Amour

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. - Benjamin Franklin

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim, don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Watts

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Thomas Aquinas

Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. - Henry S. Haskins

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expression of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart. - Barack Obama 

Where faith is, there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength. . . . Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory; that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle. . . . Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart. . . . It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair; along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty. - James Allen

Without faith, a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. - Sir William Osler

You either have faith that a God exists, or you ‘know’. You can’t know and have faith, or have faith and know, you know? - Michael Sherlock

Genetic Engineering - Quotes

Even minor tampering with nature is apt to bring serious consequences, as did the introduction of a single chemical (DDT). Genetic engineering is tampering on a monumental scale, and nature will surely exact a heavy toll for this trespass. - Eva Novotny

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. - Gina Maranto

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress. - Isaac Asimov

Quote Worthy

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. - Albert Einstein

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -General George S. Patton

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it. - Austin O'Malley

Some people do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.  - Thomas Secker

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. - Thomas Fuller

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Morley

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. - Aubrey T. de Vere

Honour - Quotes

‘Tis nobler to lose honour to save the lives of men than it is to gain honour by taking them. - David Borenstein

All men of honour are alone. - F. Paul Wilson

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honour. - Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. - Joseph Addison

Dishonour is like a gash on a tree trunk – instead of disappearing with age, it enlarges. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country. - George Washington

Honour – it was transitory and subjective, and often directly opposed to practicality. - Amanda Downum

Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. - Alexander Pope

Honour appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labour, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it. - Xenophon

Honour has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. - G. K. Chesterton

Honour is infinitely more valuable than positions of honour. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Honour is self-esteem made visible in action. - Ayn Rand

Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. - Akhnaton

Honour is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. - Charles Caleb Colton

Honour lies in honest toil. - Grover Cleveland

In whom the love of honour and praise is innate, are those who are elevated most above the brutes, and who are justly named men, and not merely human beings. - Xenophon

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain

Men honour men who honour their fellow men. - Ken Alstad

Next to living with honour is to die with honour. - Christian Nestell Bovee

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge

One cannot seek to uphold honour in a being that has none. - Charles de Lint

Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud. - Sophocles

Say not that honour is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. - Akhnaton

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates

The more honour, the more danger. - Aesop

The nearest way to Honour is for a man so to live that he may be found to be that in truth he would be thought to be. - Wellins Calcott

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. - Socrates

There are no perfectly honourable men; but every true man has one main point of honour and a few minor ones. - George Bernard Shaw

What good is honour when you are starving. - Yiddish Proverb

When honour comes to you, be ready to take it; but reach not to seize it before it is near. - John Boyle O’Reilly

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honour. - William Lyon Phelps 

More From The Tao Te Ching

Express yourself completely,

Then keep quiet.

Be like the forces of nature;

When it blows, there is only wind;

When it rains, the is only rain;

When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

- Tao Te Ching

The sage does not go, yet he knows

He does not look, yet he sees,

He does not do, yet all is done

- Tao Te Ching