Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 16

• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Believe, Moving

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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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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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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• The most wonderful taste of serenity is found by the love you create for yourself, and those around you.

  Joe Torres

  Inspirational, Life, Love You

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• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Suffering, Different

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

  Victor Kiam

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Effort, World, Matter

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Fun, Epic

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• When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Stars, Moving

  Song: Master Blaster, 1980

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• I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Important, Be Kind

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• a setback is a setup for a comeback

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Success, Comeback

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• Everything in life is luck.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Life, Good Luck

  Twitter post from

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• Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

  Gary Smalley

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  Gary Smalley, Greg Smalley, Michael Smalley, Robert S. Paul (2013). “The DNA of Relationships”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen (1992). “The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra”, Parallax Pr

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• There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Love Is, No Fear, Easier

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• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  Edgar Cayce

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Trying, Looks

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Trouble is part of your life

  Dinah Shore

  Inspirational, Change, Trouble

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