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Inspirational Quotes


Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde


When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller


Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli


When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton


Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill


Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Bill W.


You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa


Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous


Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African Proverb


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi


The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. DeVos


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


We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous


If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

Win Borden


Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley


We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke


Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.

English Proverb


"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.

George P. Burnham


Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Rabindranath Tagore


Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn


We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

Bill W.


People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar


So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.

The Eagles


Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"

Anonymous


Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Gautam Buddha


A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

Norman Vincent Peale


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln


Dreams not pursued by action are simply that, dreams with little prospect of being attained. Action taken without a plan or direction is simply that-- action with little prospect of success. Tie the plan and the action together and the dreams can become reality.

Julie V. Watson


Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

Sophocles


If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous


Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Anonymous


There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer


The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus {535-475BC Greek Philosopher}


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss


The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller


Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara DeAngelis


What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi


A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous


The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

E.M. Gray


It is never too late to live happily ever after.

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