Inspirational Quotes
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Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill

What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God.
- Jewish Proverb

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing

If you are going through hell, keep going.  - Sir Winston Churchill

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people - Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.. - Lao Tzu

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

All you need is love. - John Lennon

Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all - Alfred Tennyson

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. - Han Suyin

You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power

Enthusiasm moves the world. - Arthur Balfour

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucious

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy L. Goodman

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.

Smile even through your tears, Be Strong even through your fears

The people who laugh at you probably admire you the most.

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

There are two kinds of people, those that do the work and those that take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

Don't ask God to make your life easier, ask him to make you a stronger person!

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles Schulz

Don’t go through life, grow through life - Eric Butterworth

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me - Dudley Field Malone

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –Henry Ford

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs … one step at a time. -Joe Girard

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Jimmy Johnson

There Is No Next Time, No Time Outs, No Second Chances, Sometimes It's Now Or Never

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!  - Sasha Azevedo, Actress

'It always rains the hardest on those who deserve the sun.'

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan. – Larry Winget

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker

Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools

Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have

Don't wait for time. Make it.
Don't wait for love. Feel it.
Don't wait for money. Earn it.
Don't wait for the path. Find it.
Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.
Don't go for less. Get the best.
Don't compare. Be unique.
Don't fight your misfortune. Transform it.
Don't avoid failure. Use it.
Don't dwell on mistake. Learn from it.
Don't back down. Go around.
Don't close your eyes. Open your mind.
Don't run for life. Embrace it.
- Bigvai Volcy