Quotes to Encourage A Disheartened Soul

to my dearest friends who are downhearted and feeling sad... this is for you.. it is long but let that be a measure of how much i care for you..

"Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude." - Robert Urich

"We can change the world when we change ourselves. And the energy of our consciousness, like the energy of all light, continues into the eternity. When there is light in the soul there will be beauty in the person. When there is beauty in the person there will be harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home there will order in the nation. When there is order in the nation there will be peace in the world." - Chinese Proverb

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother Teresa

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. - -- Francois Fenelon

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - -- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
- F.W. Faber

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right. - Chick Corea

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. - Tex Cobb, boxer and actor

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T.S. Eliot

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Sir Winston Churchill

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. - Seneca

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. - -- La Bruyere

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. - Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - American poet Robert Frost (1875-1963)

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. - -- Frank Knox

We are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving. - Carlos P. Romulo

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out. - Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help during a fire

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J. H. Boetcker

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. - -- Charles Caleb Colton

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. - W. L. Shirer

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires. - Randolph Bourne

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. - Johann von Goethe

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. - - Persian proverb

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian dramatist and writer

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination. - -- Mahatma Gandhi

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - -- Chinese proverb

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. - -- Vince Lombardi

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power. - Lord Alfred Tennyson

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore De Balzac

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 been opened for us. - Helen Keller

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. - -- Phillips Brooks

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. - --Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. - Elizabeth T. King

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. - Minot Simons

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. - Confucius

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. - Paul Goodman

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Babcock

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - - Henry Ward Beecher

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. - Alexander Pope

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults. - Agapet

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. - Erastus Wiman

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. - Henry Fielding

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. - Francois Fenelon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - William Morrow

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. - Phillips Brooks

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

a parting gift that you leave with malice will follow you through life

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo