Inspirational sayings and famous quotes

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

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Muhammad Ali

29 Aug | Effort | Quotes by Muhammad Ali

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

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Plato

29 Aug | Kindness | Quotes by Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Sam Walton

29 Aug | Living Life | Quotes by Sam Walton

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

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Deepak Chopra

29 Aug | Meditation | Quotes by Deepak Chopra

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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Joan Collins

29 Aug | Adversity | Quotes by Joan Collins

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

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Dr. Sara Jordan

29 Aug | Mind | Quotes by Dr. Sara Jordan

Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo.

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Leonard Louis Levinson

29 Aug | Optimism | Quotes by Leonard Louis Levinson

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.

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Mary Manin Morrissey

29 Aug | Present Moment | Quotes by Mary Manin Morrissey

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

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Bill Bowerman

29 Aug | Action | Quotes by Bill Bowerman

Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.

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Dolly Parton

29 Aug | Ambition | Quotes by Dolly Parton

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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Theodore Roosevelt

29 Aug | Achievement | Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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Bill Blackman

29 Aug | Religion | Quotes by Bill Blackman

I believe in God but I’d much rather live with people who care about each other than those who only care about God or heaven.

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John Wooden

29 Aug | Effort | Quotes by John Wooden

Make each day your masterpiece.

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Dalai Lama

29 Aug | Kindness | Quotes by Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

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Stephen Covey

29 Aug | Journey | Quotes by Stephen Covey

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

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Gorden B. Hinkley

29 Aug | Business | Quotes by Gorden B. Hinkley

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

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Og Mandino

29 Aug | Perseverance | Quotes by Og Mandino

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; If I persist long enough I will win.

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Greame Clegg

29 Aug | Perseverance | Quotes by Greame Clegg

Some men succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to.

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Dr. Joyce Brothers

29 Aug | Failure | Quotes by Dr. Joyce Brothers

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

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William Blake

29 Aug | Sorrow | Quotes by William Blake

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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Nikki Giovanni

29 Aug | Intuition | Quotes by Nikki Giovanni

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

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Hubert H. Humphrey

29 Aug | Be Yourself | Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

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Vauvenargues

29 Aug | Intuition | Quotes by Vauvenargues

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

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Henri Bergson

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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Albert Einstein

29 Aug | Imagination | Quotes by Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Rabindranath Tagore

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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Aldous Huxley

29 Aug | Intuition | Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

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John Henry Cardinal Newman

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by John Henry Cardinal Newman

Calculation never made a hero.

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Ingmar Bergman

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

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Dr. Joyce Brothers

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Dr. Joyce Brothers

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

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Henri Frederic Amiel

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

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Rollo May

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by Rollo May

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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Katharine Butler Hathaway

29 Aug | Fear | Quotes by Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

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George Bernard Shaw

29 Aug | Instinct | Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

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The Koran

28 Aug | Spiritual | Quotes by The Koran

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.

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Cynthia Ozick

28 Aug | Health | Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

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Martin Buxbaum

28 Aug | Beauty | Quotes by Martin Buxbaum

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

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Benjamin Franklin

28 Aug | Effort | Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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Edward Gibbon

28 Aug | Skill | Quotes by Edward Gibbon

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Sam Ewing

28 Aug | Character | Quotes by Sam Ewing

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don\'t turn up at all.

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Swami Sivananda

28 Aug | Effort | Quotes by Swami Sivananda

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

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Garth Henrichs

28 Aug | Effort | Quotes by Garth Henrichs

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

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Robert James Waller

28 Aug | Stress | Quotes by Robert James Waller

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

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Lao Tzu

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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Frances Willard

28 Aug | Attitude | Quotes by Frances Willard

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

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Pope John XXIII

28 Aug | Awareness | Quotes by Pope John XXIII

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

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Agavé Powers

28 Aug | Writing | Quotes by Agavé Powers

Nature is a writer's best friend.

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St. Bernard

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by St. Bernard

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

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John Fowles

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

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Francis Bacon

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Eleonora Duse

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Eleonora Duse

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

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Robb Sagendorph

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Robb Sagendorph

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you\'ll find it there.

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Sara Moss-Wolfe

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Sara Moss-Wolfe

Nature is my medicine.

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Alan Hovhaness

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Alan Hovhaness

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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Albert Einstein

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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Frank Lloyd Wright,

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright,

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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William Blake

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.

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George Gordon

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by George Gordon

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

28 Aug | Patience | Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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John Muir

28 Aug | Nature | Quotes by John Muir

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

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Lionel Hampton

28 Aug | Gratitude | Quotes by Lionel Hampton

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

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Denis Waitley

24 Aug | Dreams | Quotes by Denis Waitley

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it,
taste it, and see it from a mile away.

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Samuel Goldwyn

24 Aug | Joy | Quotes by Samuel Goldwyn

When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.

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Linda Brakeall

14 Aug | Life | Quotes by Linda Brakeall

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

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Walt Disney

12 Aug | Winning | Quotes by Walt Disney

The difference in winning and losing is most often...
not quitting.

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Og Mandino

11 Aug | Mind | Quotes by Og Mandino

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

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Robert H. Schuller

09 Aug | Action | Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

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Brother David Steindl-Rast

08 Aug | Gratitude | Quotes by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The root of joy is gratefulness...
It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

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Elbert Hubbard

01 Aug | Intelligence | Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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Joseph P. Thompson

28 Jul | Glory | Quotes by Joseph P. Thompson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

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Abraham Lincoln

27 Jul | Skill | Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 hours sharpening my axe.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

27 Jul | Purpose | Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

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Arthur C. Clarke

20 Jul | Funny | Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

20 Jul | Freedom | Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Aldous Huxley

19 Jul | Work | Quotes by Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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William Penn

19 Jul | Prejudice | Quotes by William Penn

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

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Ralph Ellison

19 Jul | Prejudice | Quotes by Ralph Ellison

I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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William Hazlitt

19 Jul | Prejudice | Quotes by William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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George Aiken

19 Jul | Prejudice | Quotes by George Aiken

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

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Voltaire

19 Jul | Prejudice | Quotes by Voltaire

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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R. H. Grenier

19 Jul | Funny | Quotes by R. H. Grenier

All generalizations are bad.

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Albert Einstein

19 Jul | God | Quotes by Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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Bishop Mandell Creighton

19 Jul | Education | North West | Quotes by Bishop Mandell Creighton

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

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Ralph W. Sockman

19 Jul | Curiosity | Quotes by Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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Arnold Edinborough

19 Jul | Curiosity | Quotes by Arnold Edinborough

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

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James Stephens

19 Jul | Curiosity | Quotes by James Stephens

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

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Albert Einstein

19 Jul | Curiosity | Quotes by Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

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