As a people of faith we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Amidst the confusion of the times the conflicts of conscience and the turmoil of daily living an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

No person I have ever met not even the most righteous or pure of heart has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Faith is a living daring confidence in God's grace so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career or your life.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure and sometimes fear of success.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Life is so fresh life is every day so new if we are fighting only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success it's part of success.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise it's just you.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself I have failed three times and what happens when he says I am a failure.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.