Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.  – E.M. Forster
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.  – Carter Lindberg
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.  – Lillian Smith
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t have to have faith, I have experience. – …

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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face.
- Faith Ringgold
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can’t remember what the third thing is.
- Fred …

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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
- Sara Teasdale
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
- Pete Seeger
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
- Jim Rohn
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings
Unwearied ceaseless effort is …

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker
Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.
- John Leech
If the fans want me out, I’ll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won’t make excuses, I’ll leave.
- Paul Gascoigne
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
- Rudyard Kipling
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I …

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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
- Phyllis Diller
Exercise is labor without weariness.
- Samuel Johnson
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
- Anna C. Brackett
Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put …

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