If it were easy (doing things the right way)--everyone would do it!

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
1889-1981, Writer--William Feather

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." -- George Patton, General

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." ~ Anonymous

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open." Alexander Graham Bell

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. -- William H. Walton

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller, lecturer

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past. He turned a murderer named Moses into a leader and a coward named Gideon into a courageous hero, and he can do amazing things with the rest of your life, too. God specializes in giving people a fresh start. -- Rick Warren

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and
costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
35th president of the United States

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them. -- François Fénelon

A lie goes half way around the world before the truth can get its pants on. -- Winston Churchill

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not
breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
-- J. C. Ryle

"Don't confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn't make any progress"
-Alfred Montapert

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. -- Brother Lawrence

 "I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."
James Cash Penney
1875-1971, Entrepreneur and Founder of J.C. Penney Department Stores

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John Wooden (1910 – ) --Hall of Fame basketball coach

“ When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
--32nd president of the United States

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our  feet, and what is sand.  -- Madeleine

The reason that most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. -- Robert J. McKain

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."
-- Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-- John Wooden, basketball coach