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Inspirational Quotes 38 comments
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
“Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.”
Motivational Quotes 12 comments
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
“Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those
that focus on value creation will thrive.”
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed”
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Never, never, never, never give up.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
“To move ahead you need to believe in yourself…have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.”
“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader’s job is to help people have vision of their potential.”
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Happiness Quotes 5 comments
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel”
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
“Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.”
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
“It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
“Happiness is like a kiss…you must share it to enjoy it.”
“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you”
Inspiring Quotes 18 comments
It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven’t been willing to try.”
“Little by little one walks far.”
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
“I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!”
“Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”
“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”
“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.”
“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Positive Quotes 43 comments
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.”
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
“Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.”
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”
“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
“It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.”
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
Success Quotes 12 comments
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
“Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.”
“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”