GREAT INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
GREAT INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
HAPPINESS QUOTES
SUCCESS QUOTES
INSPIRATION QUOTES
DREAMS QUOTES
COURAGE QUOTES
PERSONAL GROWTH QUOTES
GOALS QUOTES
LOVE AND KINDNESS QUOTES
CREATIVITY QUOTES
JOY QUOTES
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd
invented it, because it is very true. “
Audrey Hepburn
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Helen Keller
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. “
Dalai Lama
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no
happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. “
Henry David Thoreau
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony. “
Mahatma Gandhi
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from
telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
Mark Twain
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which
chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good
health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
Thomas Jefferson
"Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to
play and to look up at the stars." -Henry Van Dyke
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but this one thing I do know: The
only ones of you who will truly be happy are those of you who have sought
and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and
harmony.”
Thomas Merton
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort
to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude.”
Denis Waitley
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as
possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for
both yourself and others will come.”
Dalai Lama
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
Helen Keller
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
Mildred Barthel
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the
moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in
contentment. “
Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.”
Margaret Runbeck
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position
that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while
trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond
their greatest failure.”
Napoleon Hill
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.”
Jim Rohn
“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.”
Dennis Green
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something
else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and
enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the
work that he likes best.”
Napoleon Hill
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and
the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure
the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to
give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with
enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your
whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. “
Orison Swett Marden
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you
win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the
result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” –
Anthony Robbins
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games.
26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve
failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off
your invitation list.”
John Eliot
“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb.
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not
trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Men are born to succeed, not fail.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size
of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Rosevelt
“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.”
Deamsian Wisdom
“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as
well.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work,
learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the
hour.”
Jim Rohn
“Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the
right things.”
Peter Drucker
“It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that
others waste.”
-Henry Ford
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all
your money.”
~ Unknown
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“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try
and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your
years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I
think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to
walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even
recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a
child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
“Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow,
grow.' “
The Talmud
“Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine”
-Buddha
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
David Carradine
"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy,
not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to
stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do
all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my
symphony."
William Ellery Channing
“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 one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened
for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate.
The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.
Let go & it will be yours forever”.
Deepak Chopra
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us
tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over
the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows
today.”
Dale Carnegie
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”
Buddha
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
Deepak Chopra
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never
been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven
is on earth.”
Souza
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in
the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
Albert Einstein
“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its
total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the
actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our
lifetime.”
Herbert Otto
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Napoleon Hill
“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would
make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a
forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.”
Denis Waitley
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come
alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who
have come alive."
Howard Thurman
“A man can do all things if he will.”
Leon Battista Alberti
“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I
say ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw
“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of
possibilities”
Terry Josephson
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.”
John Stuart Mill
“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
Denis Waitley
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can
dream it, you can make it so.”
Belva Davis
“No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.”
Anonymous
“20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than
by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
Mark Twain
“I am not my memories. I am my dreams.”
Terry Hostetler
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be
trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s
thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner
voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions
to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.”
Denis Waitley
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do
not dare that things are difficult.”
Seneca
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you
will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t be timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Helen Keller
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter
than you think.”
A.A. Milne
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
Albert Einstein
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the
quality, which guarantees all others.”
Winston Churchill
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative
and independence.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized
moral qualities of men.”
Confucius
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make
love known?”
William Shakespeare
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
Bruce Lee
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the
testing point.”
C. S. Lewis
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.”
Winston Churchill
“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and
fights against the enemy. “
Socrates
“One man with courage is a majority.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and
moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone
deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes
to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized
moral qualities of men.”
Confucius
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor. “
Aristotle
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We
can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. “
Maya Angelou
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or
resolution enough to mend them.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. “
Confucius
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“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you
are for what you could become."
Charles Du Bois
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom. “
Anais Nin
“Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are
carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run
away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to
oneself.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
Napoleon Hill
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself
alone.”
Orison Swett Marden
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the
internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need
to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is
doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they
come up.”
Deepak Chopra quote
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.”
Cherokee Expression
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from
the unacceptable.”
Denis Waitley
“The most authentic thing about us
Is our capacity to create, to overcome,
To endure, to transform, to love,
And to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not
defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can
avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Denis Waitley
“This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is
no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately
you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you
will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do? “
Osho
“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear
words.”
Calvin & Hobbes quotes
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the
great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you
are really a wise man.”
Euripides
“A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more
than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability -if you try even a
little bit- to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different
vibration, to change your point of attraction.”
Abraham-Hicks
“The final mystery is oneself.”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
Lao-Tze
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power
to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because you’re not
taking good care of your grass.”
Anonymous
“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change
rather than allowing it to master you.”
Sri Ram
“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the
offense cannot reach it.”
Rene Descartes
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
Marilyn Monroe
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My life is my message.”
Gandhi
“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a
better job of being you than you.”
Unknown
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. ”
Judy Garland
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
Thomas Edison
“Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it
permanently.”
Zig Ziglar
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only
feels good when you stop.”
John Powers
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Lewis Smedes
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with
compassion.”
Buddha
“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.”
G.K. Chesterton
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
Thomas A. Edison
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop
laughing.”
Michael Pritchard
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you
nowhere.”
Glenn Turner
“You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.”
Buddha
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“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our
journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as
to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one
step at a time.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to
myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really
becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can
do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at
the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to
become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with
our desire.”
Orison Swett Marden
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tze
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.”
Henry Ford
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people
can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”
J. Gitomer
“The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.”
Mark Twain
“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give
yourself to it.”
Buddha
“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of
thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no
reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs.
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
Marsha Sinetar
“But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.
That’s how winning is done!”
Rocky Balboa
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it
happen.”
Michael Jordan
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach
“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
“No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter
how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.”
Esther & Jerry Hicks
“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the
ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
Tony Robbins
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible
for your life.”
Les Brown
“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great
political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries –
are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”
John Eliot
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others
have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you
can get there if you’re willing to work.”
Oprah Winfrey
“There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”
Peter A. Cohen
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no failure except in no longer trying”
Elbert Hubbard
“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go,
success won’t happen.”
Phillip Adams
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.”
Napoleon Hill
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running
up and down the field and never score.”
Bill Copeland
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone
else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the
person who is doing it.”
Chinese proverb
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
Les Brown
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —
Aristotle
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”
Pablo Picasso
“A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.”
Unknown
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt
“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”
Doug Firebaugh
“It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
Vaclav Havel
“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
Stevie Wonder
“The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what
happens to you.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they
do.”
Andrew Carnegie
“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
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
Tony Robbins
“In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads;
this is the reason we stop laughing.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Don’t get bogged down with all the details of how it’s going to come together.
Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.”
Brian J
The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
Mark Twain
“The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. “
Paulo Coelho
“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the
time to do something about it.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.”
Marcia Wieder
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one
step at a time.”
Joe Girard
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”
Tobias Wolff
“The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo
“The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot
is just a little shot who kept on shooting.”
Zig Ziglar
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place
and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep
you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard
as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit
and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.
That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out
and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not
pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her,
or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!”
Rocky Balboa
“Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The
slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human
race.”
Calvin Coolidge
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.”
Chinese Proverb
“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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
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“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions
should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does
things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly
that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the
water's edge.”
Napoleon Hill
“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither
themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about
love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere
sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”
Deepak Chopra
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.” Ann Landers
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to
the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Wolfgang Mozart
“We can judge others or we can love others - but we can't do both at the same
time.”
Author Unknown
“It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.”
Mother Teresa
“Books about relationships talk about how to 'get' the love you need, how to
'keep' love, and so on. But the right question to ask is 'How do I become a
more loving human being?'
Sam Keen
“Great love and great achievements involve great risks.”
Dalai Lama
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
Willa Cather
“There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for?
And what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same...
Only love.”
Don Juan DeMarco
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.”
From 'A Course In Miracles' Foundation For Inner Peace
“I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without
any witch's magic; if you want to be loved, then LOVE.”
Hecato of Rhodes
"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and
gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day,
for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are
worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we
are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and
our neighbors worthy.”
Thomas Merton
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say
“thank you?”
William A. Ward
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
Seneca
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Plato
“A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the
things which renew humanity.”
Buddha
If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.”
Buddha
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the
object on which it is poured.”
Ann Landers
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and
should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
Goethe
“If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.”
Leo Buscaglia
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we
never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
“One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.”
Leo Buscaglia
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“There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you
are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is
isn't.”
Tori Amos
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of
social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of
questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”
John W. Gardne
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom.
Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
Susan Sontag
“Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look
at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble
those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones
to keep.”
Scott Adams
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you
will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
George Bernard Shaw
“-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right
mood.
-What mood is that?
-Last-minute panic.”
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“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or
produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions
and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. “
Ansel Adams
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one
else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the
wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work
and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover
will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.”
Alan Alda
“The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow
them to do something they love. “
Teresa Amabile
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. “
Julia Cameron
“It is in awareness that we bring everything to life that lives within us. There
is no time like the present to give birth to creativity. “
Kathleen Anderson
“I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is
daring to dare.”
Maya Angelou
“Time is clay. Go make something.”
Barbara Bach
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. “
Maya Angelou
“Enthusaism is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of
creativity.”
Bo Bennett
“There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of
life is expressed by creation.”
Henri Bergson
“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”
Julia Cameron
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and
anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must
do things.”
Ray Bradbury
“Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful
that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be
compared.”
Brene Brown
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than
you work.”
Rita Mae Brown
“The first step to being creative is to get rid of your own unwritten rules.”
Mary M. Byers
“As adults we have quite a bit of work to do, and play seems to function as a
protective mechanism against the costs of this work; a buffer against stress, a
support during life transitions, a means of forming bonds and alliances, a
jump start for creativity and problem-solving.”
Christine Caldwell
“Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process
at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end
of a slender green stem.”
Julia Cameron
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
Frank Capra
“All creative people are kids at heart. You’ve got to play – do stuff that’s
definitely not work to get off the linear approach to creative work. I keep yoyos in my office and I play solitaire on my computer.”
Steve Carmichael
“Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening
to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and
create something.”
Liz Carpenter
“With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the
realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. “
Deepak Chopra
“Enhancing creativity is not only for enrichment; it’s a vital resource for
meeting the challenges and dangers, as well as the opportunities, of the
accelerated change climate of the twenty-first century. “
Shelly Carson
“Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.”
Julia Cameron
“We are all creative. Creativity is the hallmark human capacity that has
allowed us to survive thus far. Our brains are wired to be creative, and the
only thing stopping you from expressing the creativity that is your birthright
is your belief that there are creative people and uncreative people and that
you fall in that second category. “
Shelly Carson
“We should not forget to enjoy the experience of daily creativity, whatever
that may entail.”
Diane Carter
“Contemplation is the root of awareness and creativity.”
Sandra Chantry
“Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is
beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life. “
Deepak Chopra
“Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”
Julia Cameron
“Laughter is the best creative medicine.”
John Cleese
“Each of us possesses a creative self. Claiming that is a transformational art.
When you begin to act on your creativity, what you find inside may be more
valuable than what you produce for the external world. The ultimate creative
act is to express what is most authentic and individual about you.”
Eileen M. Clegg
“The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the
creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest
reward.”
Alan Cohen
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking
rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
Mary Lou Cook
“Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.”
Mason Cooley
“In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.”
Julia Cameron
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“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.“
Joseph Campbell
“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with
recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.”
Thomas Kinkade
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy
follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Mother Teresa
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is
better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of
those who work with joy.”
Khalil Gibran
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties. “
Helen Keller
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. “
Joseph Campbell
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and
behold, service was joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general
reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. “
Henry Miller
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
Khalil Gibran
“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which
I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”
Anais Nin
“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my
name. Sweet joy befall thee!”
William Blake
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Emily Dickinson
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really
are.”
Marianne Williamson
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a
bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which
life implies.”
Erich Fromm
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
Karl Barth
“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other
people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be
no true joy.”
Thomas Carlyle
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of
despair.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or
sorting the laundry.”
E. B. White
“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies
our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity
as a being of worth and dignity.”
Rollo May
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your
nature with Nature.”
Joseph Campbell