Encouraging Life Quotes

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

Robert H. Schuller

Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

"Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Alton Brown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

Inspirational, Sports, Running

Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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Nothing in this 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. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Positive, Family, Trust

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Start where you are, use what you have.

Arthur Ashe

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Farrah Gray

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

David Allen

Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

Twitter post from Jun 10, 2009

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

Inspirational, Strength, Success

"The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Helen Keller

Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Unknown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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