“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” — W.S. Ross
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur
“Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don’t like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.” — F.F. Bruce
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” — Zig Ziglar
“You always pass failure on the way to success.” — Mickey Rooney
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.” — Mary Lou Retton
“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.” — Anonymous
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” — Augustine
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.” — F.B. Meyer
“When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.” — R.A. Torrey
“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.” — John Bunyan
“He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.” — Augustine
“The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries: After that, he can sleep.” — Charles Baudelaire
“There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.” — Henry Drummond
“The happy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an access on his knee, or in his soul.” — Rona Barrett
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain