F Archives - Quote of the day

Francis Chan

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

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Frank Zappa

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

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Character

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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Children

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

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Christian

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.

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Change

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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Fear

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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Crush

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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F. Burton Howard

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

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Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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Flip Wilson

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.

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