Quotes That Inspire Me

  These are the quotes that inspire me. Some make me smile. Some make me try when I want to give up. Some make me remember why I work so hard. Some make me think. Some remind me to have fun. Some remind me I am blessed. Some pick me up when I am down. Some give me the desire to push further. Some remind me to make time for the little things. All of them speak to me deeply.

 Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. -Lawana Blackwell

~Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever –Gandhi

Life Offers you a Thousand Chances, All you have to do is take one!

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale


~A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright

~Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much!~

~A Journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.~

Lao Tzu

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.


“Well-behaved women rarely make history” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. -CS Lewis

Just keep swimming! - Dori on Nemo
 
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone -Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
 

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. -EB White

 
People who give a shit are sexy. -Scott Hahn & Rogan Gregory
 

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -Harold Wilson

 
 

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

 
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon




We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -Lynn Hall

It seems to me that people have vast potential.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the

confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't.

They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Philip Adams

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,

let it be enthusiasm. -Bruce Barton

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. -Patricia Neal

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

 

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

By: Carl Jung

Better to write for yourself and have no public,
than to write for the public and have no self. 
Cyril Connolly

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive,

 go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.



Arnold Palmer

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. By: Saint Bernard

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr

 
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor;

but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,

 more people would be content to be ignorant than

would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute
overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always
excited me more than the
intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.

The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~John Lennon

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You have to keep plugging away.
We are all growing.
There is no shortcut.
You have to put time into it to build an audience.  
John Gruber
 

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent,
in the ideas of living.



Miriam Beard

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

It's amazing
how quickly
nature consumes
human places
after we turn
our backs on
them. Life is a
hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

 

I would feel more optimistic

about a bright future for man

if he spent less time proving

that he can outwit Nature

and more time tasting her

sweetness and respecting her

seniority.

E. B. White