Inspirational Quotes
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"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears." ~Unknown "Sometimes on the way to what's supposed to happen, something even better happens." ~Third Rock From The Sun "Do not let yourself be defined by the words that others speak against you." ~President Bill Clinton "Sometimes you find out what you wanted isn't really what you need. And the dream and all its' promise was never meant to be. All your hope and desperation won't make it like it was and you believe the pain will never pass, believe me in time it does." ~Unknown "Don't lose sight of your ambition, keep on track. Remember always: confidence gain, doubt lack. Keep on trudging through the miles of time and never look back." ~Brittany Lyke "May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays." ~Unknown "There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle." ~Unknown "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." ~Henry David Thoreau "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." ~Henry David Thoreau "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~Henry David Thoreau "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." ~Helen Keller "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." ~Helen Keller "From dusk till dawn there is a new beginning, a time where you can start all over and have a perfect day." ~Brittany Dunlap "We may all live in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde "We're all dying. 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, it doesn't matter. What does is what we do while we are waiting; how we live out the seconds in between." ~Capt. John Sheridan "We are all made up of our experiences, both good and bad. We can no more wish away the bad than we can wish ourselves away. We can merely live each day and look to the future. For in the future lies hope." ~Unknown "It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt." ~Suellen Fried "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."~Helen Keller "Do not forget in the darkness what you have learned in the light." ~Joseph Bayly "You don't have to blow out someone else's flame to make your own flame burn brighter." ~Unknown "When the last thing we notice is the color of skin and the first thing we look for is the beauty within...we shall be free." ~Garth Brooks "A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest." ~Pearl Bailey "Gray skies are just clouds passing over." ~Duke Ellington . "If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?" ~G.K. Chesterton "It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." ~Alberta Lee Cox "Everyone is a gem not one in the same, but yet you see the beauty in each one!" ~Unknown "What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful." ~Goo Goo Dolls "Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows, lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the Spring - becomes the rose." ~Bette Middler "God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones." ~Publilius Syrus "If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." ~Erica Jong "A window of opportunity won't open itself." ~Dave Weinbaum "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." ~Oprah Winfrey "What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want." ~Mighon McLaughlin "It's hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." ~Theodore Roosevelt "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know that they were impossible." ~Doug Larson "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key." ~The Eagles "Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "What lies behind us and what lies between us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who play hopscotch and sing in the shower, and those that lie alone at night with tears in their eyes." ~Featured in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul "If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." ~Dolly Parton "Stillness is what creates dreams. Movement is what makes dreams come to life. To be still and still moving; this is everything." ~Luke "Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" ~Benjamin Franklin "Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see." ~Unknown "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true." ~Richard Bach "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."~Pamela Vaull Starr "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them." ~Louisa May Alcott "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more successfully." ~Henry Ford "We are the hero of our own story." ~Mary McCarthy "There are such things as stupid questions... but only fools are afraid to ask them." ~Dr. James Pratt "The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." ~Ivy Baker Priest "People do not lack strength, they lack will." ~Tressie Farley "The way I see it there are two kinds of dreams; one is a dream that is always going to be just that, a dream, a vision that you are never really going to hold in your hand, and then there is that thing that you live by, that you trade your days for, knowing that someday you are going to stand on top of that mountain, holding everything that you saw in your head right there in your hands. These people, possessing the second type of dream, all share one thing in common: courage, faith and hope." ~Garth Brooks "Opportunity knocks so many times that it has raw knuckles." Barry Kaufman "Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of." ~Geri Weitzman "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." ~Pierre Corneille "Pessimists see the way things are and ask why? Dreamers see the way things could be and ask why not?" ~John F. Kennedy "Only those who risk going too far can ever know how far they can truly go." ~T.S. Eliot "The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in." ~Tehyi Hsieh "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." ~Wayne Gretzky "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle harder than yours."~Plato "Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, you have time to do something about it." ~Unknown "There is no dream too big and no dreamer too small." ~Unknown "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 "Everything you can imagine is real." ~Pablo Picasso "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." ~Unknown "Shoot for the moon because even if you miss you'll always land among the stars." ~Les Brown "Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars - not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hollows the soul." ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin "The distance is not important; it's the first step that's the difficult part." ~Unknown "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." ~C.C. Scott "What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful." ~Sappho "I believe because it is impossible." ~Tertullian "He either fear his fate too much or his deserts are too small that dares not put it to the touch to gain or lose it all." ~James Graham "Opportunity involves some risk. After all, you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." ~Unknown "Miracles happen to those who believe in them." ~Bernard Berenson "Without making a mistake, you cannot make something right." ~Unknown "Never give up on anyone. Miracles happen everyday." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "If you find you are in the dark, try stepping out from behind your shadow and shine." ~Unknown "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." ~George Seaton "The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." ~Psalm 121:8 "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." ~Edward Everett Hale "You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must in order to gain courage and really feel joy." ~Carol Burnett "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton "From what we get we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." ~Arthur Ashe "Take all that you've become, set your standards high. You deserve the best...to be all that you can be. Soar above the clouds and let your dreams set you free." ~Jillian K. Hunt "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." ~Hellen Keller "When you believe you can- you can!" ~Maxwell Maltz "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." ~Ina Hughes "Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests." ~George Matthew Adams "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." ~Mark Twain "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." ~Unknown "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country." ~Anais Nin "Sometimes, you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down." ~Kobi Yamada "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware." ~Mel Colgrove "Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself." ~Epictetus "If you cry because the sun has gone down in your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." ~Unknown "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." ~Stephen A. Brennan "The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done." ~Mary Francis Berry "Sometimes, even in dark alleys, a red rose will bloom with just a touch of reflected sunlight." ~Unknown "I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love." ~"Angels Among Us" "If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?" ~Unknown "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." ~Louisa May Alcott "Let desire be your destiny." ~Great Expectations "Dry times only make for sweeter rain!" ~Dennis Jernigin "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." ~William Arthur Ward "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." ~Helen Keller "Remember, you are braver than you believe, you are stronger than you seem, and you are smarter than you think." ~A.A. Milne "Biologists have determined that, technically speaking, the bumble bee cannot fly. Fortunately, the bumble bee does not believe in biologists. Don't allow others to impose limitations on you." ~Unknown "Don't be afraid to embrace your dreams, because if you don't you'll never know if your dreams were supposed to be your life." ~Unknown "Cherish your vision; 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. If you remain true to them, Your world will at last be built." ~Jewel "I dream, therefore I exist." ~Unknown "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~Unknown "Any dream can come true if you have the courage to work at it." ~Unknown "The search for truth is more precious than its possession." ~Unknown "After the darkest night comes the brightest day." ~Unknown "May the best day we have seen be the worst to come." ~American Proverb "All dreams spin out from the same web." ~Native American Proverb "Somewhere there's a reason why things go like they do; somewhere there's a reason why some things just fall through. We don't always see them for what they really are, but I know there's a reason, I just can't see it from this far." ~Unknown "Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn." ~Unknown
