Inspirational Quotes
Life & Motivation
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When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - Unknown
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. - Richard Bach
To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” - Maria Robinson
“Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” - Danny Kaye
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Ryun
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world." - Wayne Dyer
"Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." - Jonatan Mårtensson
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” - Bruce Lee
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.” - Dalai Lama
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” - Mother Teresa
"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
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” - Paulo Coelho
"We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.” - Paulo Coelho
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." - T.S. Eliot
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao Tzu
It's not who you are that holds you back,it's who you think you're not - Denis Waitley
“Dreams are like stars... you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.” - Anonymous
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away - Shing Xiong
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -Neale Donald Walsch
The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter Drucker
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw
To understand everything is to forgive everything -Buddha
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. -Eckhart Tolle
Start Where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. ~ Khalil Gibran
“Things do not change; we change” - Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears - Rumi
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
We see things not as they are, but as we are. - H. M. Tomlinson
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. - Rumi
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. -T.S. Eliot
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” - James Neil Hollingworth
“Look at what you've got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” - Proverb
“Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.” -Libbie Fudim
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. - Benjamin Spock
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts
Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it. - Yrjo Kallinen
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.- Oprah Winfrey
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein
"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities." - Sue Atchley Ebaugh
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom." - Marilyn Ferguson
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”― Ram Dass
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon