- Start where you are. Use
what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe
- Maybe it's not about having a plan, or even a plan B. Maybe it's about
seeing where life takes you and learning to enjoy the ride. Jenny O'Connell
- Strong
lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Kenneth Hildebrand
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most
frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your
playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant
to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that
is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others. Marianne Williamson
- Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
We make the world we live
in and shape our own environment.
Who seeks shall find. Sophocles
A will finds a way. Orison Swett Marden
One of the things
that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a
motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within.
You have to be inspired. Herman
Cain
We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve
been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right
person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are
wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some
complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own
wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons,
your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re
ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re
looking for.....Let our scars fall in love. Andrew Boyd
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy
themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes
anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin
One finds limits by pushing them.Herbert Simon
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth. H.L. Mencken
But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am. P.C. Cast
Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if
you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
You must embrace change before change erases
you. Rob Liano
Men
do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle
In
any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be
no successful outcome. William James
With the new day comes new
strength and new thoughts.Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free,
cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. Cat Stevens
Adversity introduces a man to himself. Albert Einstein
The will to win, the
desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys
that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius
I've worked too hard and
too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my
teammates down and I will not let myself down. Mia Hamm
I realized I love motivating
and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for
18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as
doing work on television. Dominique Dawes
I'd rather attempt to do something
great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller
You can't build a reputation on what
you are going to do.Henry Ford
All men are created equal.' That doesn’t mean
we are born into equal circumstances, or have the same skills. What we do have
in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we
desire. Each of us has the capacity to dream big, to assess and accept the
aspects of our reality that are standing in our way, learn from them, overcome
them and succeed. Justin Young
The key to your happiness is to...own who you are, own how you look, own
your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. [Otherwise]
you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. Abraham Verghese
Let me tell you something you haven't learnt yet, something you learn
only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you
down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time,
events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your
confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second
thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you
don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just
don't have the fire anymore...Then you have a choice. You can either give in to
what you're feeling, just say "okay, enough is enough" and be done
with it, or you can fight it. Terry Brooks
Follow your dreams, work hard,
practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of
exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet. Christian D. Larson
Dare to Be
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can –
At all times, Dare to be! Steve Maraboli
How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how
it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life. Marwa Ayad
I like motivational
books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your
own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before
you're pushed, leap before you look. Louise Mensch
Your talent is God's gift
to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time. Anna Freud
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because where we are is always the most important place. Philip Pullman
- If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your
outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be
valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining
than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are. Lance Armstrong
Our
greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always
to try just one more time. Thomas Edison
After a storm comes a
calm. Matthew Henry
I believe that any type
of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create
something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational
speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all. Andy Andrews
Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does. William James
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and
love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time,
they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of
it--always. Mahatma Gandhi
May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
I don't believe you have
to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever
thought you could be.Ken Venturi
Whatever you want in life, other
people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea
that you have an equal right to it. Diane Sawyer
Step by step and the thing is done. Charles Atlas
Knowing
is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If
you would create something,
you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late'
to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world. Kellie Elmore
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney
Learn from the past, set
vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over
which you have any control: now. Denis Waitley
One day, I got so
disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to
do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to
'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a
motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well. Justin Zackham
Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
- I
have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have,
if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith. Mahatma Gandhi
- Never, never, never give up. Gerald Gillis
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will
never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to
think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him
and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not
thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he
knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for
more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when
he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is
love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy
that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.”
― Rumi
Consult not your fears
but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about
your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed
in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Don't watch the clock; do
what it does. Keep going.
To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time
again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the
first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a
path to where you wish to be.Neale Donald Walsch
Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the
comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest
grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.Alexandre Dumas
Motivation is the art of getting
people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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If
you've got a talent, protect it.
Reach
perfection.
Baltasar Gracián
I
avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are
just the things which no one can see.”
It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost
bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives:
"This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you
must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing
when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all
these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice
of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that
there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are
four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's
always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's
always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance
is in style at any age!”
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but
I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will
kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge
and revenge will never come to an end...”
― Ishmael Beah
Hope
is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden
behind us.
Samuel Smiles
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to
return.”
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And
not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a
bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away,
dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to
smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents
and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to
put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been
buried.”
― Henry Miller
“I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no
longer enduring it.”
It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations,
forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every
street in the city, people not yet old enough to have lines on their foreheads
were laughing away memory, warmly ensconced in shrines of forgetfulness. Those
who followed the word of God and those who preferred what the priests called
"hoodoo" alike.Anna Godbersen
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher
storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
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“There’s nothing you
can’t do if you want it bad enough.”
Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well
begun is half done.
Greek Proverb
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One love, one heart, one destiny.”
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you
forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you
cannot move forward.”
“The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily
becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the
inevitable.”
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“If you want success, then don't rely on other
people to do what YOU can do!”
― Sasha Azevedo
What you believe you can receive if you doubt it
you will do without it.”
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You
trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give
up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any
large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual
level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison
“There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.”
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Inspiration
and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo
No
great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How am I going to live today in order to create
the tomorrow I'm committed to?”
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
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“Focus on making yourself better, not on
thinking that you are better.”
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more
potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always
triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I
believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Like the power of salvation itself—like rays of sunlight from the eyes
of the Almighty—Stormlight exploded from those gemstones. It streamed through
the air, pulled in visible streams, like glowing columns of luminescent smoke.
Twisting and turning and spiraling like tiny funnel clouds until they slammed
into him.
And the storm came to life again.”
“I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to
say it. What happened to us? Where are we going? It was like this silence
between us was frozen and we were both feeling our way around it. How is it
that two people can need each other so absolutely and then, in moments, not
even know how to be next to each other and just be quiet?”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their
fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it
doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
A person's a person, no matter how small.”
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
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“Peace begins with a smile..”
“When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the
best day of your life?”
And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will
shine.”
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.”
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life
interesting.”
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day,
what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or
knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”
We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is
denying yourself of a life worth living.”
Life
has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim
the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend,
over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
If
you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
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don't trouble the trouble if you don't want the trouble to trouble you.”
“Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or
complain about what you don’t have.”
It Hurts...It Kills...It Teaches...
It Thrills...“IT” Is LIFE...!”
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you
plant.”
“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one
advice - read books.”
Don't
wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them
great.
Orison Swett Marden
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Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us
see them and some are too busy to notice.”
When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take
physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the
possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is
inevitable.”
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
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When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just
glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her
vow.”
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse
than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to
me.”
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and
I say 'Why not?”
Do
we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of
inspiration?
George Eliot
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate”
“I'd rather identify with a past of infinite
growth, than a past which hinders it.”
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet
is turned on.”
..the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an
asshole”
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all
things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Each
day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: "What is my
exciting thing for today?" Then I do the day.
Barbara Jordan
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To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely
unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of
them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
-
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized
anyway.”
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We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Work
spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
- The
best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
If
you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on.
The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that
the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than
to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with
him to wealth or influence.
John B. Gough
Never prove people right. Never prove them
wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.”
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit
there.”
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the
trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by
it. Maya Angelou
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?” Gautam Buddha
Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by
the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It’s
inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in
which you participate.”
She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for
certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd
travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational.
She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on
it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a.
Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to
possess a savage glitter.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in
your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your
own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to
go...”
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“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones
who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous
yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile
tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences
anymore.”
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the
vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit
in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. ”
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the
key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment,
and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you
meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the
bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you
always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is
not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a
black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you
laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
“Here's to opening and upward...
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”
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For
hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right
for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest
goddamned thing in the world.”
Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and
beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season.
Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change.”
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see
it”
First
say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Fortune
favors the brave.
Publius Terence
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole
life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and
how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you
never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a
field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.”
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before
they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go,
and fix it along the way…”
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“You don't need to wish harder, you need to work
harder.”
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and
earnestly.”
Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
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You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you
should expect it.”
The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.”
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can
propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.”
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now
mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
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.”
and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on
whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in.
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating
burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping
the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely
misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned
individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead,
they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the
wind of his trail.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to
suit me.”
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we
die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good
things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you
put into what you did?”
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
But...to sing,
to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,
with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see!
To cock your hat to one side, when you please
at a yes, a no, to fight, or- make poetry!
To work without a thought of fame or fortune,
on that journey, that you dream of, to the moon!
Never to write a line that's not your own...”
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the
hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let
the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved
and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists..
it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
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When
the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.
Richard Hooker
Believe
with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest
regret was how much I believed in the future.”
There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented
people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something.”
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It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena
to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held
high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between
the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of
fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the
world.”
At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to
choose to be happy.”
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
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This life is what you make it. No matter what,
you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Marilyn Monroe
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most
to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions,
or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm
and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or
confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of
our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of
the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding
of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I believe that we are who we choose to be.
Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself.
Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.
Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if
you don't get it.
So don't give up your dreams.”
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are
looking at the stars.”
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step
as possible in the direction of fulfilling it but if the step is only a tiny
one, don't worry if it is the largest one now possible.”
― Mildred McAfee
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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by
an encounter with another human being.”
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.”
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth.”
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come
to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
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Search for contentment in each person you meet.”
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday
you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
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In
every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking
for it.
Norman Vincent Peale
Experience
is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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“If you've got nothing to dance
about, find a reason to sing.”
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk
then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and
humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud
people.”
“It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can
only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you
can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That
broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.”
The opposite of love is not hate, it's
indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The
opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is
not death, it's indifference.”
We
can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
You
cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown Anonympus
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Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether
or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will
not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path
of authentic service in the world.”
“Sometimes the only
way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.”
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“The more man
meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at
large.”
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision
and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have
the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on
the paper.”
“To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to
make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.”
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.”
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“It's not whether
your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.”
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do
is the worst kind of suffering.”
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!”
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college
student.”
Take
calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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Without music, life would be a mistake.”
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single
candle.”
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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“It takes two men to
make one brother.”
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If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run
out of gas.”
O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I
believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything
seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I
believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
“There is a difference between WISHING for a
thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he
believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or
wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.”
Try
not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
In
doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Publilius Syrus
The
only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect
and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.”
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,
and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at
the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping
yourself and the other for helping others.”
“Growth can't be constrained when the journey
unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.”
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“I cannot compromise
my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
In
every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking
for it.
Norman Vincent Peale
The
only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no
mistakes in it yet?”
This is my country, that is your country; these
are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is
a family.”
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“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to
seek Him just to find her.”
“It's not the face, but the
expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look
in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
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“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you
If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the
lifeboats.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
“If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant
beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made
to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold
evermore wonders.”
“If we hold tightly to anything
given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used
we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily
"ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours
to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must
go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.”
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If
you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have
been.”
Doubt
whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We
are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
Seek
the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
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“In the end, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“He who controls the past
controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of
the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
To
find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
No
star is lost once we have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Proctor
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When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you
could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the
place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“If you are feeling unhappy in life for any
reason and often getting negative results, try this -> start replacing
negative thoughts with the positive one, make a plan and act on them. The more
positive thoughts you have the more positive and happy your will become and
results are bound to be positive sooner or later.-Subodh Gupta author
"Stress Management a Holistic approach - 5 steps plan”
“What I need is the dandelion in
the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The
promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good
again.”
“Don't say you don't have
enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given
to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes
short again and again, because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great
enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at
the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor
defeat.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“I like living. I have
sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but
through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand
thing.”
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“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and
sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
“Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man
Owning Your Reputation Is”
Nothing
contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
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if
you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where
they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
“You would not want to be responsible for
someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for
yours!”
““A great measure of the real value of the
things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our
lives”
- “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be
in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
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