Encouraging Quotes - Page 21

• Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, Christ, Source

  "Morning & Evening".

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  Bear Bryant

  Going Out, Ems, Beaten

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• Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

  Lance Armstrong

  Girl, Strong, Attitude

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• The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
  Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Self Esteem, Adventure

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.3, Conari Press

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• If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Perseverance, Warrior, Winning

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• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Richard Bach

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Honesty

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

  Lou Holtz

  Perseverance, Successful, Sacrifice

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• Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

  Thomas Traherne

  Love You, Conceited, Love Is

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Being Single, Self Confidence

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

  Liz Carpenter

  Life, Choices, Want

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• I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

  Dale Carnegie

  Few Words, Looks, Praise

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

  Jim Harrison

  Hands, Soul, Voyages

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• If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

  Sheila Walsh

  Change, God, Encouragement

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

  Anne Frank

  Hope, Sky, Suffering

  Anne Frank (1995). “Anne Frank”, Bantam Books

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• In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Responsibility, Decision

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• We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Community, Body

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.52, Multnomah

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• Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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• Things don't happen to us. They happen for us.

  Michael Hyatt

  Happens

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• Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

  David Platt

  Christian, Song, Father

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• Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Conceited, Debt, Praise

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• We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Needs, Praise, Assistance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

  Donald Trump

  Encouragement, Attitude, Believe

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• No one knows what they can do until they try.

  Les Brown

  Trying, Knows, Can Do

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