Faith Quotes
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -- George Elliot

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. -- Mahatama Gandhi

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

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

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. -- Soren Kierkegaard

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea. -- Anne Morrow Lindberg

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -- Matthew Arnold

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. -- Major Kira Nerys

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. -- Thomas Robert Gaines

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

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

Failure Quotes
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. -- Amar Gopal Bose

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -- Confucius

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -- Edwin Louis Cole

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. -- Robert H. Schuller

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.-- Ross Perot

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. -- Marva Collins


Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.-- George Lorimer

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

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -- Napoleon Hill

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.-- Marilyn vos Savant

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.-- Richard R. Grant

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes

Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.--Richard M. Nixon

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.-- Colin Powell

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. -- Walter Reuther

Short love Quotes
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.-- Nora Roberts


Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -- Bertrand Russell

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -- Erich Fromm

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything. -- Source Unknown

The only reward for love is the experience of loving. -- John LeCarre

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. -- Anonymous

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place. -- Anonymous


Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. -- Benjamin Franklin

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones

Happy Quotes
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. -- Kitaro Nishida

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde

"What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-- George Asaf

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach.

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
-- William Bennett

"What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.

"He who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese proverb

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo.

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
-- Douglas Jerrold.

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-- Helen Keller

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
-- La Rochefoucauld.

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-- Karl Marx

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."
-- Vimalia McClure

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."
-- Dan Millman

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
-- John Stuart Mill.

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman

"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
-- William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice).

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark Twain.

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.--Harrison Ford

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.-- Edwin Percy Whipple

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -- Helen Keller

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -- Hugh Downs

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -- Fredrick Koeing

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -- Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. -- Jim Rohn

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.--Theodore I. Rubin

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- ZIGGY

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. -- A. Nielsen

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor Hugo

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.-- Charles Langbridge Morgan

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred Barthel

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman