Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 40

• Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

  Jean Charest

  Dream, Determination, Distance

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• In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

  Adora Svitak

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  "What adults can learn from kids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Children

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

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• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Joy

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• America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Healing, America, Serenity

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• Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Fighting

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• If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Succeed, Ifs

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• The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, People, Political

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• Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Purpose, Emptiness, Malaise

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• Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Stories, Demand

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• The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

  Robin Sharma

  Beautiful, Running, Fear

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Cards You're Dealt

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Want, Lgbt

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• The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

  Andrew Harvey

  Inspirational, Real, Growth

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• Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Trying, Consistent

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• Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Want

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• Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Giving, Purpose, Connections

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Matter, Headings, Ifs

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• The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Ego, Opponents, Emptiness

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• People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Hands, People

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• Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Way, Impatience

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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• It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Order, Enough

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• Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

  Clement Mok

  Simple, People, Simplicity

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• If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

  Washington Irving

  Sadness, Heart, Wrinkles

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• We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Water, Judging, Soul

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