INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES 2.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing
a poor hand well.
-- Jack London
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it offers you.
-- T.S. Eliot quotes
" Everyone wants to be the sun that brightens up your life.
I'd rather be the moon that shines upon you in your darkest hours."
-unknown
"If you don't have a plan you become a part of someone else's
plan"
-Terrence McKenna
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot
If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life.
-- Confucius
“Whether you think you can or think you can't --you are right.”
- Henry Ford
Founder, Ford Motor Company
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to
do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
-- Ella Fitzgerald
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked
like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
-- Ronald Reagan
" You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with
a club."
Jack London
" God is closest to those with broken hearts."
Jewish Saying
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is
the best -- that is inspiration.
-- Robert Bresson
"...And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside
the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that
knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
26th President Of The United States
" Sometimes people have hurt us. We ask ourselves, "Why me?" I say, "Why not me?" The things we go through in life happen for a reason and help prepare us for the next step in life. Have faith in yourself and anything you want will happen. Always go forward, don't go backward."
“Pay no attention to what the critics say, no statue has ever
been erected to a critic.”
- Jean Sibelius
Finnish Composer
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn
out in a brilliant blaze than 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.
-- Jack London