I LOVE quotes. There isn't enough room for me to post all the quotes I love and that give me daily inspiration. They come from a myriad of sources and I'm hoping you find a couple here that resonate with you. At first I thought I would divide these into categories like education, success, inspirational, etc... but I find that so many of these can fit into multiple categories, which I think is what happens when you stumble upon pure truth. It just fits every part of your life. So, unless this gets unruly, I'll just keep them together. I'll keep adding when I find good ones.... quotes are like potato chips; you can't have just one!
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself." Jim Rohn
"The circumstances you complain about are, by their very nature, situations you can change -- but have chosen not to." Jack Canfield
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it." Brian Tracy
"The greater danger for most of us in not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
"The phrase I can't is the most powerful force of negation in the human psyche." Paul R. Scheele
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie
"No man ever became great or food except through a many and great mistakes." William E. Gladstone (former prime minister of Great Britain)
"I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened." Mark Twain
"Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew...." Guillaume Apollinaire (French poet)
"You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities." Brian Tracy
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." Michelangelo
"We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction." Chuck Gallozzi
"If I am through learning, I am through" John Wooden
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you." Sue Patton Thoele
"Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once." unknown
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." Mother Teresa
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed, than to have tried and succeeded." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Fully 95% of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel." Brian Tracy
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others" Tyron Edwards
"You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet." Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
"Be Grateful, Be Smart, Be Involved, Be Clean, Be True, Be Positive, Be Humble, Be Still, Be Prayerful." Gordon B. Hinckley
"You will never change what you tolerate." Joel Osteen
"I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces, as giving herself purposelessly." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence." John Maxwell
"You are the only person who can really label what you do a failure." John Maxwell
"The world is so noisy. There are voices everywhere trying to influence us. We all need time to think. We need to drown out the clamor and noise and simply be quiet. We need time to ponder and meditate, and to contemplate the deeper things in life. We need time to read and immerse ourselves in the thoughts of great minds." Gordon B. Hinckley
"Whenever you feel overtired and overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time, stop yourself and just say, 'All I can do is all I can do.'" Brian Tracy
"If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs, and instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you can ever think or ask." Joel Osteen
"Be grateful. Count your blessings and gifts and privileges and see just how long that list is. I Imagine that each of you will have difficulties ahead of you. None of us can avoid them. But do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight in the clouds. And be grateful for what you have." Gordon B. Hinckley
"You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you." Joel Osteen
