Quotes

Napoleon Bonaparte's Quotes:

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion
to take one of fox.

Kindness Quotes:

Sophocles
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will
be a friend better than any possession.

Ralph Sockman
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle
as true strength.

Dawna Markova
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of
kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones
you have given-you can no longer believe that what you
do does not matter.

Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and
despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Anonymous
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness;
it usually comes back to you.

Confucius
To be able to practice five things everywhere under
heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of
soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I
am old, I admire kind people.

Faith Quotes:

Japanese proverb
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

William Durant
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about
everything except what you're going to do now - and do
it.

Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the
main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning
of wisdom.

Unknown Author
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to
believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Michael Korda
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Wally Amos
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how
many people have tried it before; it's important to realize
that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

John Burroughs
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are
naturally affirmative.

Everett D. Martin
It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Unknown author
It is not important what you believe, only that you
believe.

Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope or confidence.

Leo Buscaglia
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we
make of our talents is our gift back to God.

John Ruskin
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer,
builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and
critic.

Norman Vincent Peale
People become really quite remarkable when they start
thinking that they can do things. When they believe in
themselves they have the first secret of success.

Lewis Cass
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe
what you do.

Napoleon Hill
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can
achieve.

Anthony Robbins
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or
impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is
more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Theodore Roethke
What we need are more people who specialize in the
impossible.

Bertrand Russell
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to
find out.

John Ruskin
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we
do.

Brian Tracy
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

H. K. Barclay
When walking through the "valley of shadows,"
remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Walt Disney
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionably.

Maxwell Maltz
When you believe you can - you can!

Unknown Author
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Denis Waitley
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe
you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition
switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Ronnie Lott
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Anthony Robbins
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that
powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to
accomplish virtually anything, including those things
that other people are certain are impossible.

Alfred A. Montapert
If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable
life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they
are the foundation to build your life upon.

William Hazlett
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary
to victory.

Friedrich Schlegel
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and
takes its first forward step in faith.

Thomas Fuller
He does not believe who does not live according to his
belief.

Confucius
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

George Eliot
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the
barrier of systems.

Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves
so much trouble.

H. L. Mencken
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I
believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I
believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Jon Erickson
I found that I could find the energy... that I could find the
determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind
can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I
can do it... I can do it... I can do it!

Anne Frank
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still
believe that people are really good at heart.

Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just
wish that He didn't trust me so much.

The Bible, Matthew 17:20
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a
mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from
here to there" and it will move.

Gerry Spence
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one
closed by belief.

Author unknown
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of
faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Marcus T. Cicero
A man of courage is also full of faith.

Unknown Author
Achieving starts with believing.

Oprah Winfrey
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do
whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are
and are willing to work with a power that is greater than
ourselves to do it.

William Salter
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a
possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the
possibility exists.

Caracter Quotes:

Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our
true honor.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly
and courageously. This is how character is built.

Karl G. Maeser
A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.

Heraclitus
A man’s character is his fate.

James Allen
Whether you be man or woman you will never do
anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor.

David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how
to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Zig Ziglar
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have
nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right
thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt
removed you are free to be and do your best.

Determination Quotes:

Johann von Goethe
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not
enough, we must do.

Peter Marshall
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,
but give us the determination to make the right things
happen.

Samuel Smiles
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will
always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find
them, they will make them.

Unknown Author
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to
begin.

Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.

Norman Vincent Peale
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where
you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never,
never give up.

Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to
despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Great works are performed not by strength, but
perseverance.

Franklin D Roosevelt
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try
something.

John J. Watson
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged
determination to surmount all obstacles that built this
bridge.

William Somerset Maugham
It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it.

Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

American Proverb
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in
your pockets.

Vincent T. Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is
not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
a lack of will.

Italian Proverb
To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Kent Steffes
To succeed at the level I want to... you have to be focused
and serious.

Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person's determination.

Colin Powell
The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are
willing to do your best.

Roger Bannister
The man who can drive himself further once the effort
gets painful is the man who will win.

Richard Devos
The only thing that stands between a man and what he
wants from life is often merely the will to try it and faith
to believe it is possible.

Unknown Author
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or
control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Helen Keller
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be
done, it was done.

Zig Ziglar
Will you look back on life and say, "I wish I had," or "I'm
glad I did"?

Zig Ziglar
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the
ability to start over.

Jesse Owens
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into
reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication,
self-discipline, and effort.

Hannibal
We will either find a way, or make one.

Alexander Graham Bell
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it
exists...and it becomes available only when you are in
that state of mind in which you know exactly what you
want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get
it.

Peter F. Drucker
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is
incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's
another matter.

Greg Hickman
Whenever you get knocked down in the game of life,
immediately get up, get better and get going again.

Niccoló Machiavelli
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be
great.

English Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.

Harvey Mackay
People begin to become successful the minute they decide
to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they're prepared to see.

Mike Ditka
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can
do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to
pay the price, you can get it done.

Brian Tracy
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you
persist, you will be successful.

Winston Churchill
Never, never, never, never give up.

Mario Andretti
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination
and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -
a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to
attain the success you seek.

William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be
achieved.

Denis Waitley
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite
of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Unknown Author
Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key in the
bunch that opens the lock.

Paul "Bear" Bryant
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the
second half.

Napoleon Hill
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be
willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can
one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a
burning desire to win - essential to success.

Gandhi
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its
stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle
and a victory.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. Confucius

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Victor Borge

Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Frank A. Clark

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. Bill Cosby

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mohandas Gandhi

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. Mignon McLaughlin

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. Christopher Morley

Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo Rosten

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov