“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means–the only complete realist.” ~C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity

The only journey is the journey within.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
- Walter Elliott

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
- Author Unknown

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist Saying

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
- William James

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
- Author Unknown

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
- Earl Nightingale

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

Paralyze resistance with persistence.
- Woody Hayes

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
- Vincent Lombardi

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

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
- Newt Gingrich

How long should you try? Until.
- Jim Rohn

Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Author Unknown

You can’t let go and still win.
- Author Unknown

It is perseverance which distinguishes the strong from the weak.
- Author Unknown

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”  –Elbert Hubbard

“…Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~by Marianne Williamson

“Have patience. Things that last grow slowly. Be a mighty oak. Be an unmovable mountain.”
~Unknown

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“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
-Jack London (The Road)

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places…” Unknown

“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein

“To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.” ~John Maxwell

“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.” -Dale Carnegie

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
-Mark Twain

“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature—opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.” 

-Abraham Lincoln

I stumbled across this video today of a young woman who is a student at Harvard. The girl is participating in a panel during Harvard’s Days of Faith. She is asked a myriad of difficult questions about the her faith (LDS). She is also asked to address many of the misconceptions that exist in our society. Her answers are fantastic and I feel she does a great job representing the LDS Church.

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” ~Unknown

“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” ~Anais Nin

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“There are two important days in a person’s life: The day he is born and the day he finds out why?” ~Anonymous

What is to give light must endure burning. ~VIktor Frankl

As you might have guessed from going through my blog, I am really big on good quotes. Most of the quotes I post here are from bits and pieces of my life, and not any website. However, I thought I would share the two sites I have come to really use. 

ThinkExist.com
QuotesDaddy.com

I could write commentary on both of them, but I will let you explore them and decide for yourself if they are valuable or not.

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice”

~Martin Luther King Jr

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