Inspirational and Uplifting Quotes
Attitude
- There are two kinds of people in the
world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse
person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results
person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator,
not a reactor. -- Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
- You can't have a better tomorrow if you
are thinking about yesterday all the time. -- Charles F. Kettering
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Cherish your visions; cherish
your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty
that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all
heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.." -- James Allen, 1864-1912,
British-born American Essayist, Author of "As a Man Thinketh"
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The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
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What lies behind us and
what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Pessimist complains about the wind,
the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails. (author
unknown)
- A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William
James
- In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost
Confidence
- No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
- The hardest challenge is to be yourself
in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
-- E. E. Cummings
- Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin,
and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. -- Brendan
Francis
Empowerment
- Begin doing what you want to do now.
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and
melting like a snowflake. -- Marie Beyon Ray
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My dad always used to
say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to
fly. You have nothing to lose." -- Captain John Sheridan,
Babylon 5
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Things turn out the
best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-- John Wooden
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You cannot be lonely
if you like the person you're alone with. -- Wayne Dyer
- When we blame, we give
away our power. -- Greg Anderson
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Maturity is the ability
to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration
for the thoughts and feelings of others. -- Hrand Saxenian
Friendship
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It is the first law of
friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to
be indulgent when the first law is neglected. -- Voltaire
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A new friend is like new
wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure. --
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Love
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Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There are countless ways
to express love. Be creative! -- Inneractions by Stephen
C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
Miracles
- There are only two ways to live your
life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
Persistence
- When you get in 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. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Your persistence is your measure of faith
in yourself. Author Unknown
- "There are some people who live
in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there
are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglas Everett, American
Hockey Player
Success
- The only place where your dream becomes
impossible is in your own thinking. -- Robert Schuller, American
Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
- If you want to be successful, it's just
this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And
believe in what you're doing. -- Will Rogers
- When you reach for the stars, you may
not get one, but you won't come up with a hand full of mud, either." -- Leo
Burnett
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The future is simply infinite
possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination
to crystallize its possibility. -- Leland Kaiser
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The first step toward success
is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in
which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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The people that get on
in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances
that they want; and if they can't find them, they make them. -- George
Bernard Shaw
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Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is
hard to realize this. - Henry Ford
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The best way to predict
the future is to create it! -- Jason Kaufmann
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Everything you do can be
done better from a place of relaxation. -- Inneractions by
Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
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Remove the rock from your
shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably. -- Inneractions
by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
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The point of life is not
to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or
humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose
- it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.
-- Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
Values
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Do more than belong, participate.
Do more than care, help. Do more than believe, practice. Do more
than be fair, be kind. Do more than forgive, forget. Do more than
dream, work. -- William Arthur Ward
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It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are. -- Roy Disney
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To speak ill of others
is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such
transparent egotism. -- Will Durant
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