INPSIRATIONAL QUOTES 1
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"Dream as if you'll live forever...live
as if you'll die today."
James Dean
"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
"One hundred percent of the shots
you don't take don't go in."
Wayne Gretzky
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far
one can go. "
-T. S. Eliot
"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."
-Harold Whitman
"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"This is no time to engage in the
luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism, NOW
is the time..."
Martin Luther King
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goals."
-Author Unknown
"The Secret to success to do to the common things uncommonly well"
-J.D. Rockefeller
Even if you're on the right track, you'll
get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
"There is nothing more frightful
than ignorrance in action"
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
Mark Twain
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something
else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon
"Live each day as if it were your
last. Because one day it will be."
"Life or Something Like it"
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It takes a big man to cry. It takes
a bigger man to laugh at that man"
-Jack Handy
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that
frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission
to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others."
Marianne Williamson
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because
we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Seneca
“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to
use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is
important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow
comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have
left behind...let it be something good." "I would rather be ashes
than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper
function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying
to prolong them. I shall use my time."
Jack London
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes
a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that
which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes
to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
Dawna Markova
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The
round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're
not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the
status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy
ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they
can change the world, are the ones who do.
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"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the
lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer,
or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems
with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how
to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no
positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the
situation will change."
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just
as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
Earl Nightingale
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders
and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow
is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It
is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude
to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than
what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance,
gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable
thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace
for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people
will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing
we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced
that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles Swindoll
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks
outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great."
Mark Twain
"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is
nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"If you're going to do it, Over
do it"
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Suffering chastens us and makes us remember. We are like the child who tries to pick up fire and is unlikely to do it again, once she has seen the consequences. With material things, seeing is easy; but when it comes to picking up the fires of greed, aversion, and delusion, most of us aren’t even aware we’re holding fires at all. On the contrary, we misguidedly believe them to be lovable and desirable, and so we are never chastened. We never learn our lesson.
-Buddhadhasa Bhikku, "Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree"