You haven't failed till you quit trying. *
~ Anonymous

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

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~Sheilah Graham

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.
~Lloyd Jones

FAITH

Faith is believing things when common sense tells you not too.
~George Seaton

FEAR

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
~Sophocles

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
~Frederick Smith

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
~Baudjuin

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
~David M. Burns

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
~Marie Curie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
~Dale Carnegie

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
~Virgil Thomson

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~Frank Herbert

FOCUS

FORGIVENESS

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~Lewis Smedes

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~Phillips Brooks

FRIENDSHIP

The only way to have friends is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make a friend.
~Abraham Lincoln

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
~Author unknown

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
~Fr. Jerome Cummings

True friends are angels who lift us us to our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Author unknown

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substance, if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~Carl Jung

I don't know how, I don't know when, but you and I will meet again.
~Author unknown

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one, when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~Dale Carnegie

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
~Albert Camus

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion- the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers. *
~Pam Brown

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself. *
~Author unknown

Don't be dismayed at good-bye's. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are
friends. *
~Richard Bach

FRUSTRATION

Don't try to accomplish everything at once; life can be difficult enough without adding frustration to the list.
~Author unknown

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasterful self-conflict.
~Elizabeth Drew