Into the Fire

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 last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob A. Riis

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. Laurence Shames

Chance favors those in motion. James H. Austin

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. Joann Thomas

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. J. Lubbock

The strongest warriors are these two…time and patience. Leo Tolstoy

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. Jim Rohn

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. Unknown

The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go. Winston Churchill

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting golden delicious. Bill Meyer

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We learn to walk by stumbling. Bulgarian Proverb

It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us. Earl Nightingale

You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. Spanish Proverb

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. Florence Nightingale

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick B. Wilcox

Father, you shine the truth on all things and carve the gems from unrecognizable stone. Help us to be discerning, Lord, by your Spirit. Teach us and lead us into all Truth. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.