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Inspiring, Positive, Thought Provoking Quotes. We've added this section to inspire you and to give you something to think about today. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." John Powell "You're always alone, but you're only lonely if you don't like the person you're alone with." "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." Erich Fromm "It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle." Richard M. DeVos
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." Ciceo "There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility." Jeffrey David Lang "Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds." Norman Vincent Peale "Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."Plutarch
"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile." Denis Waitley
"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." - Og Mandino "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde "Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them." - Marilyn Ferguson "A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower." - Marianne Williamson "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." - Alan Alda "Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect." - Jean Jacques Rousseau "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it's the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula K Le Guin "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." - Margaret Fuller "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb "If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward." - Source Unknown "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein "Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. "Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." - Evan Esar "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." - Don Marquis "I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." - W. Somerset Maugham "This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln "The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." - Lawana Blackwell "Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." - Mary O'Hare Dumas "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present." - Joan Rivers "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." - Lydia Maria Child "An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves." - Lydia M. Child "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!" - Jean Sibelius "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas". -- George Bernard Shaw "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose". -- Helen Keller "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof". -- Barbara Kingsolver "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it". -- John Ruskin "Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life". -- Thich Nat Hahn "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies". -- Mother Teresa "A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are". -- Ara Parasheghian "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears". -- Arthur Koestler "Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomise infinity". -- E. Knight "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives". -- Albert Einstein "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen". -- Bobby - age 7 "To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come". -- Erich Jantsch "Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us". -- Oscar Wilde "You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it". - Albert Schweitzer "People may not remember what you did for them, or even what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." - Unknown "Make not your thoughts your prisons".-- William Shakespeare "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it". -- Michael Jordan "Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision." - Anthony Robbins "The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away". -- Joy J. Golliver "Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance." - Oprah Winfrey "Believe in the impossible. We have the power to make this an amazing society ... if we work together. Be a part of it. Make waves". -- Robert Egger "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared" - - Buddha Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -- Jimi Hendrix Be The Change: How well do you really listen? The next time you engage in conversation, watch where your mind is when the other person is talking. "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger "Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it". -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love doing. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." - Wayne Dyer "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. New dreams, new works in progress that's the ticket for a long and happy ride." - Unknown "Take the attitude of a student, Never be too big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new." - Og Mandino "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell "Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him." - Cicero "We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals." - Brian Tracy "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris "The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." - Wilfred A. Peterson "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James "Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams to live the life that you have imagined. That's when you have success." - Unknown "People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton "We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach "When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell "Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead." - Charles M. Schwab "I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way." - J. C. (James Cash) Penney "Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves." - Carol Pearson "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten "You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - Ruth Smeltzer "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." - Anon "Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney "In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt." - Meggin Cabot "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love doing. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." - Wayne Dyer "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France "It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not." - Michael Nolan The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." - Thomas Henry Huxley "If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible." - Anthony Robbins "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Teilhard de Chardin "Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present." - Sir John Lubbock "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." - Marcel Proust "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.--Joe Sabah |
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