Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. Buddha
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen R. Covey
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. Roy T. Bennett
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. Lao Tzu
Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business. Cindy Gallop
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. Jim Rohn
What you deeply need is not stuff, comfort or beauty, it’s meaning. Maxime Lagacé
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. Confucius
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Epicurus
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt
Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn its back on you. Jennifer Donnelly
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Tom Wilson
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Roy T. Bennett
Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Belief and hope don’t make goals easy… but make them possible. Invajy
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. Charlie Munger
What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored. Sheryl Sandberg
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama XIV
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed. Billie Jean King
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. Aldous Huxley
Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you. Lauren Conrad
The most important thing is to enjoy your lifeto be happyit’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear. Joshua Wisenbaker
They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. Fred Rogers
The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them. Stephen King
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. Henry David Thoreau
If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. Diane Von Furstenberg
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen
Reality is such an elusive concept. Laura Gilfillan
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. Mortimer J. Adler
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. Deepak Chopra
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to. Lao Tzu
Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. Wim Wender
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
If you continue to think the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got. Kevin Trudeau
What we think, we become. Buddha
Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble. Aaron Lauritsen
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. William Faulkner
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill
Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless? Tommy Wallach
We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. Albert Einstein
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
Finding Inner Strength: Quotes to Inspire
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. James Dean
It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times. Yukiso Yamamoto
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
The greatest mistake you can ever make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. Ellen Hubbard
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. Bryant H. McGill
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. Nina Guilbeau
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. J. K. Rowling
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. Flannery O’ Connor
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. C.S. Lewis
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Jackson Brown Jr.
Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. Mike Higton
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. Wallace Stevens
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge
Never regret anything that made you smile. Mark Twain
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Sherrilyn Kenyon
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. Chantal Sutherland
The ultimate productivity hack is saying no. James Clear
He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. C. S. Lewis
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Washington Irving
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice. Octavia Butler
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. George R.R. Martin
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Buxton
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle Ross Simmonds
When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT’S when you push forward the hardest. Yvonne Pierre
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. Michel de Montaigne
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey
When you train your eyes to see the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift. Carol Woodliff
We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet
Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. Renata Adler
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. Nikola Tesla
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert. Paulo Coelho
Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well. Neil Strauss
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out. Eleanor Roosevelt
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda
One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. Lucille Ball
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. Ariana Huffington
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. Bobby Unser
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. So think positive and be positive. Anurag Prakash Ray
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. W. P. Kinsella
Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead. Rebecca Wells
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead. Jack Nicholson
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only with what you are expecting to give-which is everything. Katharine Hepburn
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L.M. Montgomery
In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines. Mike Dolan
Reflecting on Life: Inspirational Words
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. Charles Bukowski
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. Helen Keller
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Oprah Winfrey
Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey
If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. Louise Hay
When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. Erol Ozan
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got. Robert Brault
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Yann Martel
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Lee Iacocca
Where expectations end… peace begins there. Invajy
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. Isabel Allende
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion. Mohammed Ali Bapir
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. Sir Edmund Hillary
If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person. Clayton M. Christensen
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. Elbert Hubbard
Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage. Doe Zantamata
There is no truth. There is only perception. Gustave Flaubert
Reality is wrong, dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself; the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of usthat’s where it’s at. Jesse Owens
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. Confucius
What matters most in life is often invisible. Duane Elgin
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. Edgar Cayce
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. Walt Disney
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. Rick Warren
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right. Childish Gambino
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. Roseanne Barr
What you’re thinking about can be what you become. Mitch Albom
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. Luke the Evangelist
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. John C. Maxwell
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. Gerard Way
If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy. Mark Cuban
If a thing loves, it is infinite. William Blake
The only one who can tell you you can’t win is you and you don’t have to listen. Jessica Ennis
Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. Rumi
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert Schuller
Every moment is a fresh beginning. T. S. Eliot
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. Christian D. Larson
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin
Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
And still, I rise. Maya Angelou
The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. Isobelle Carmody
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama
Never cheat in the relationships… if you don’t like a relationship, just end it. Invajy
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. C.S. Lewis
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. Jimmy Carter
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau
The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn. Napoleon Hill
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future. Denis Waitley
Overcoming Challenges: Motivational Quotes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fail by default. J.K. Rowling
Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friederich Nietsche
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Kahlil Gibran
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. A.A. Milne
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Thich Nhat Hanh
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on it is going on when you don’t have strength. Napoleon Bonaparte
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. Tony Robbins
You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches. Dita Von Tees
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it. Jim Rohn
Find people who will make you better. Michelle Obama
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham Bell
Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together. Diane McLaren
Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway. Yasmin Mogahed
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Seneca
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King
Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love … Marcus Aurelius
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph
Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending. Chico Xavier
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou
Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear. George Addair
The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday. Matty Mullens
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. Edmund Hillary
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. David Allen
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe
Stay foolish to stay sane. Maxime Lagacé
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is a verb. Love the feeling is a fruit of love, the verb. Stephen Covey
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein
The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Socrates
If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun. APJ Abdul Kalam
If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one. Mother Teresa
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Arianna Huffington
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. Lolly Daskal
We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. Earl Nightingale
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. Dalai Lama
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. Kurt Vonnegut
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. George Harrison
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. Will Rogers
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. Francis Bacon
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. Les Brown
Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future. Tony Robbins
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
By changing nothing, nothing changes. Tony Robbins
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. John F. Kennedy
Don’t use yesterday’s state of mind, to make today’s decision. C. Nzingha Smith
