Inspirational Quotes - Page 9

• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Running, Positive Thinking, Adversity

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Strength, Success, Leadership

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

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• Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Dream, Heart

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jun 24, 2013

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teacher, Teaching

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Encouragement, Character

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 15, 2013

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• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Time, Stress

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Motivational, Change

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, Graduation, Education

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• The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Character, Long

  "Awaken The Giant Within". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Opportunity, Singleness Of Purpose

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

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• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Cancer, Moving Forward

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Stay Strong, Adversity

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Business, Wisdom Experience, Addiction

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

  James Cash Penney

  New Beginnings, Entrepreneur, Effort

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• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Business, Responsibility, Opportunity

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Laughter, Fun, Regret

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• Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Leonard Cohen: Most Iconic Quotes" by Katie O'malley, www.elle.com. November 11, 2016.

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Real, Yoga

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Honesty, Real

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

  Leo Rosten

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Life, Strength, Business

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• Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Success, Uplifting

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