“Failure is success in progress.”
Inspirational Quotes
“You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you.”
“Tough times never last. Tough people do.”
-Robert Schuller (it’s the title of his book)
“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you down. It’s the pebble in your shoe.”
“If we wish to be rational, not now and then, but constantly, we must pray for the gift of Faith, for the power to go on believing not in the teeth of reason but in the teeth of lust and terror and jealousy and boredom and indifference that which reason, authority, or experience, or all three, have once delivered to us for truth.”
-C.S. Lewis, “Religion: Reality or Substitute?”
“I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
–Albert Einstein, interview in The Saturday Evening Post, 1929
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
-Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan.
“Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”
–Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.”
-Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, 1710. Thanks, Quote Investigator
Ironically, in pursuit of the following misattributed ‘quotes’:
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” -Winston Churchill
AKA “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.”
Or, “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
