Positive Inspirational Quotes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

Life, Change, Positive

FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Farrah Gray

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

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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.

Sam Ewing

Motivational, Success, Attitude

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Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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

Muhammad Ali

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Inspirational, Life, Positive

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness, Hero, Inspiration

Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

Inspirational, Basketball, Business

1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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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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