“Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.” – Chuck Swindoll1
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” – George Washington Carver
“The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.” – Thomas Adams
“What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.” – Augustine
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller
“What you can’t go through, God will help you fly over.” – Woodrow Kroll
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Chuck Swindoll
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” – Augustine
“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” – George Macdonald
“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.” – A. W. Tozer
“They always win who side with God.” – Frederick W. Faber
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.” – Ronald Reagan
“There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.” – George Washington Carver
“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Fear God and work hard.” – David Livingstone
“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.” – J. I. Packer
“God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.” – Jack Hyles
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” – George Washington Carver
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below: