Brighten Your Day Quotes

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

  Edward Young

  Inspirational, Sweet, Flow

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.81

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• The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

  Paul Scherrer

  Inspirational, Earth, Way

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Up from Slavery".

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• Thought is the seed of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Health, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Running

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• If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

  David Niven

  Happiness, People, Cost

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• The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiring, Heart, Broken

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• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Our Actions, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• Silence does not always mark wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Silence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.44

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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  B. F. Skinner

  Inspiring, Education, Book

  "B. F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73, 1968.

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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• Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Life, Meditation

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

  Plutarch

  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition".

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• How long should you try? Until.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Determination

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