Turning Points Quotes

• The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

  George Washington

  Life, Real, Moments

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• In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

  Julia Quinn

  Doubt, Shadow, Hints

  Julia Quinn (2006). “When he was wicked”

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• It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

  Napoleon Hill

  Important, Way, Unexpected

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.143, Penguin

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• The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

  Napoleon Hill

  Succeed, Moments, Crisis

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.28, Penguin

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• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Max Lerner

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Events, Unconscious

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• I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

  Deborah Norville

  Thinking, Gone, Epiphany

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• In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Opportunity, Order

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

  Michael J. Fox

  New Roads, Forsaken, Chosen

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• Life is always at some turning point.

  Irwin Edman

  Change, Moving, Life Is

  Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”

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• Every war has turning points and every person too.

  Meg Rosoff

  War, Persons

  Meg Rosoff (2004). “How I Live Now”, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

  Leon Trotsky

  Long, Looks, Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Camels, Action, Break

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

  Denis Waitley

  Commitment, Destiny, Moments

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• At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fate, Men, Shapes

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.

  Bob Proctor

  Blessing, Years, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 19, 2015

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• The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Careers, White

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They say when you reach a crossroad or a turning point in life, it really doesn't matter how we got there, but it's what we do next after we got there. Usually you arrive there by adversity, and then it is then and only then that we find out who we truly are and what we're truly made of. It's a process, a gift and a journey, and if we can travel it alone, although the road may be rough at the beginning, you find an ability to walk it. A way to start fresh again. It's neither a downfall nor a failure, but a new beginning.

  Paris Hilton

  New Beginnings, Adversity, Journey

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Kingdoms, Born Again

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• There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Struggle, Men, Battle

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.561, Dell

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• If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

  James Taylor

  Trying, Cleaning, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.

  Ellyn Stern

  Acceptance, Naked, Moments

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• Make your breaking point your turning point.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Point Break

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, p.17, Fawcett

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• I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

  Arjun Rampal

  Rocks, Careers, Lucky

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• Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

  David Jeremiah

  Water, Mind, Body

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.120, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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