Famous Quotes: F
Failure
”But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.” (Luke 16: 17)
“It is of Jehovah’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.” (Lamentations 3: 22)
“Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” (Deuteronomy 31: 6)
“Love never faileth . . .” (1 Corinthians 13: 8)
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. (Mrs. Charles E. Cowman)
“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” (Walter Brunell)
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Confucius)
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.” (George R. Tilton)
“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.” (Anonymous)
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” (John Burroughs)
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” (Robert F. Kennedy)
Faith
“Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
“Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.”
(Hebrews 11:1)
“ . . . God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.” (Romans 12: 3)
“His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” (Matthew 25:23)
“Faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2:14)
“I will show thee my faith by my works.” (James 2:18)
“All things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23)
“So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans 10: 17)
“Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to.” (Tim Hansel)
“Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.”
(Anonymous)
“Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.”
(Anonymous)
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.” (Mother Teresa)
“Living without faith is like driving in a fog.” (Anonymous)
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!”
(Henry Ford)
“Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.” (Anonymous)
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” (Charles Spurgeon)
“Man is what he believes.” (Anton Chekov)
“Seek not to understand that you may believe but believe that you may understand.” (Saint Augustine)
“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” (Chandra L. Jackson)
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” (Ralph Hodgson)
“Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies.” (Mother Teresa)
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." (Saint Augustine)
"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." (Dr. Thomas Fuller)
“If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, if you lose faith you lose all.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Without faith nothing is possible With it, nothing is impossible.” (Mary McLeod Bethune)
”It is better to have faith in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail” (Bobby Bowden)
“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” (Philip Yancey)
“Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive.” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
“It takes just as much faith to believe you are going to fail as it takes to believe you are going to succeed.” (Unknown)
Family Life
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it . . .” (Ephesians 5: 25)
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” (James Baldwin)
“If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.'' (Anonymous)
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.” (Colossians 3: 20)
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.” (Ephesians 5: 31-33)
“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.” (Colossians 3: 18-21)
“Train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Geenesis 2: 24)
“My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother . . .” (Proverbs 6: 20)
“Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” (Hebrews 13:4)
“Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Psalm 127: 3)
“The family is the school of duties – founded on love.” (Felix Adler)
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.” (Will and Ariel Durant)
“A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.” (Helen Keller)
“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.” (Abraham Lincoln)
"The most valuable thing you can spend on your children is your time". (Anonymous)
“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” (Carl Sandburg)
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.” (John Ciardi)
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” (Jesse Jackson)
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” (George Santayana)
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” (Pope John Paul II)
“As for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.” (Joshua 24:15)
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” (George Moore)
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” (Jim Valvano)
“No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” (Theodore Hesburgh)
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” (Anthony Brandt)
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” (Charles Swindoll)
Fasting
“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; that thou be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall recompense thee.” (Matthew 6: 16-18)
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” (Isaiah 58: 6-8)
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.” (Matthew 4: 1)
“But this kind goeth not out save by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17: 21
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
(Isaiah 58: 6,7)
“But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.” (Psalm 35: 13)
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.” (Daniel 9: 3)
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.” (Saint Jerome)
“The best of all medicine is resting and fasting.” (Benjamin Franklin)
Fear and Anxiety
“Be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28)
“The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: His praise endureth for ever.” (Psalm 111: 10)
“Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” (Matthew 10: 31)
“Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.” (Deuteronomy 10:20)
“I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.” (Psalm 34:4)
“I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4: 13)
“Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” (Isaiah 41:10)
“The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.” (Proverbs 1: 7)
“The fear of Jehovah tendeth to life; and he that hath it shall abide satisfied;
He shall not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19: 23)
“In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, and though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof.” (Psalm 46: 1-3)
“The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, that one may depart from the snares of death.” (Proverbs 14: 27)
“For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.” (2 Timothy: 1: 7)
“In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me?” (Psalm 56: 11)
“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” (Don Miguel Ruiz)
“Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.” (Woodrow Wilson)
“Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.” (William Inge)
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” (David Lloyd George)
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” (James F. Bymes)
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.” (Jane Addams)
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." (Edgar Watson Howe)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
“The key to change. . . is to let go of fear.” (Rosanne Cash)
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real." (Neale Donald Walsch)
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. (Dale Carnegie)
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” (Napoleon I)
“Never take counsel of your fears.” (Andrew Jackson)
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you will have survived;
But what torments of pain you endured
From the evils that never arrived!” (French proverb)
Forgiveness
“Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.” (Luke 17: 3-4)
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:” (Colossians 3: 13)
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4: 32)
“And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses.” (Mark 11: 25, 26)
“Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? 1Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18: 21, 22)
“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:32)
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses . . .” (Matthew 6: 14, 15)
“God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
“And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released . . .” (Luke 6: 37)
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:15)
“They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.” (John A. Michener)
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” (Paul Boese)
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“One pardons to the degree that one loves.” (Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” (Confucius)
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” (Norman Cousins)
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” (Hannah Arendt)
“Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.” (Oscar Wilde)
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves – one for your enemy, the other for yourself.” (Chinese proverb)
"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Where there is forgiveness, there is God himself.” (Adi Granth)
”Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” (Martin Luther King)
“Forgiveness frees me from the burden of anger.” (Sister Joan D. Chittister, OSB)
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.” (Anonymous)
“To err is human, to forgive divine.” (Alexander Pope)
“Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying the grudge, the other guys out dancing.” (Buddy Hackett)
“No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future.” (Anonymous)
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives. (Catherine the Great)
Freedom
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Friendship
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.” (Proverbs 27: 6)
“A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.” (Proverbs 17: 17)
“Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.” (John 15: 14)
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15: 13)
“Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who can find?” (Proverbs 20: 6)
”He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18: 24)
“Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it.” (Proverbs 13:20)
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2)
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." (Walter Winchell)
"Life without a friend is death without a witness." (Spanish proverb)
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." (Len Wein)
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous)
“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” (Albert Camus)
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." (Abraham Lincoln)
“The only way to have a friend is to be one. “ (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.” (Euripedes)
"There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet." (Anonymous)
"My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me." (Henry Ford)
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." (Frances Ward Weller)
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” (Mother Teresa)
“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.” (Jennie Jerome Churchill)
“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 he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.” (Alexandre Dumas)
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“A true friend laughs at your stories even when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they’re not so bad.” (Proverb)
“Friends cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” (William Arthur Ward)
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” (Victor Borge)
"A friend is a present you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” (John Lennon)
“A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Our road will be smooth and untroubled
no matter what care life may send;
if we travel the pathway together,
and walk side by side with a friend.”
(Henry Van Dyke)
“His thoughts were slow,
His words were few,
and he never formed to glisten,
But he was a joy to all his friends - -
You should have hear him listen.”
(Wayne Mackey)
Future
“Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.“ (Matthew 6: 34)
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.” (Jeremiah 29: 11)
“So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.” (Proverbs 24: 14)
“Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.” (Anonymous)
“The future comes one day at a time.” (Dean Acheson)
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” (William Shakespeare)
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Peter Drucker)
“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” (Christian Nevell Bovee)
“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” (Christopher Reeves)
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen and those who wonder what happened.” (John M. Richardson)
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” (Lewis J. Bates)
“You can never plan the future by the past.” (Edmund Burke)
“I never think of the future - - it comes soon enough.” (Samuel Tayor Coleridge)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
