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100 Most Inspirational

Saturday, 4. July 2009, 09:36:13

Stop the devils from sucking you dry, stealing your passion and making you miserable. Give yourself a slap hard in the face with these 100 most inspirational quotes that the devils absolutely do not want you to know.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

Make each day your masterpiece.
-John Wooden

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness, have few desires.
-Lao Tzu

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

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.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Fall seven times, stand up eight!
Japanese Proverbs

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
Charles Fletcher Lummis

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

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

No pressure, no diamonds.
Mary Case

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.
Jack London

Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.
Bill Bowerman (Nike)

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.
Author Unknown

The best dreams happen when you’re awake.
Cherie Gilderbloom

God, grant me the serenity to accept things that I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

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.
Mary Manin Morrissey

To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown

There will be sleeping enough in the Grave.
Benjamin Franklin

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is either daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.
Mark Houlahan

Don’t make me walk when I want to fly.
Galina Doyla

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.
Leonard Louis Levinson

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve

The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
Dr.Horace

Nobody ever drowned in sweat
US Marine saying

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
Vince Lombardi (one of the most successful coaches in the history of American football in his first team meeting as Packers coach)

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

Reach up as far as you can and God will help you reach the rest of the way.
Greg Hickman

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill ( In his later years, Winston Churchill was asked to give the commencement address at Oxford University. Following his introduction, he rose, went to the podium, and said the above 5 words. Then he took his seat.)

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man with a smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
Author Unknown.

Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo.
Dr. Sara Jordan

Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Lucian

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Joan Collins

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Tagore

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.
Walt Whitman

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

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
Mario Fernandez

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

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.
Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
Helen Keller

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

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

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Helen Keller

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

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.
Author Unknown

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter Hagen

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.
Author Unknown

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Buddha

Dance as though no one is watching you,
Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no one can hear you,
Live as though heaven is on earth.
Irish saying

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.
Henry Drummond

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
William James

Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday.
Euripides

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
Pablo Neruda

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
Spurgeon

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Georges-Louis Leclere De Buffon

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Abraham Lincoln

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
Henry David Thoreau

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

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.
Og Mandino

Success and rest don’t sleep together.
Russian proverb

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

If you’re going through Hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli

Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

God never sends us more than we can handle.
Mother Theresa

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Christian Larson

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
Henry Ward Beecher

The things that hurt us teach us.
Author Unknown

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The oyster turns into pearl the sand which annoys it.
Sidney Newton Bremer

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb

Breathe In Breathe Out ...Happy 4th of July!!!

Comments

Dacotah # 4. July 2009, 13:04

Long list.

The first one seems to be missing a word.
"but the really great make you feel that you, too, can"
great what? ones, people?

wickedlizard # 4. July 2009, 13:07

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

it's all there...

Dacotah # 4. July 2009, 13:13

Just to me he forgot a word after great.
Guess he means people since he used "Small people" in the beginning of the sentence.

wickedlizard # 4. July 2009, 13:31

PainterWoman # 4. July 2009, 14:39

Such good quotes....all of them. Perhaps my favorite is Van Gogh's: If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.