INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
Amy Poehler
FRIENDSHIP
“There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!”
Irish Proverb
FRIENDSHIP
“At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. ”
S.L. Parker
PERSISTENCE
“You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
Tom Hiddleston
PERSISTENCE
“To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
PERSISTENCE
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Carl Sandburg
INSPIRATION
“A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.”
Idowu Koyenikan
INSPIRATION
“ The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
Kobe Bryant
INSPIRATION
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness... or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.”
Walter Anderson
OVERCOMING
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
Louis "Lou" Holtz
OVERCOMING
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
C.S. Lewis
OVERCOMING
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.”
Alan Alda
CREATIVITY
“Creative people do not see things for what they are; they see them for what they can be.”
Julie Israel
CREATIVITY
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well…, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
Vaclav Havel
HOPE
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
HOPE
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'...”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
HOPE
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
FAMILY
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
Peter Buffett
FAMILY
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
Richard David Bach
FAMILY
“Having somewhere to go is home, having someone to love is family, having both is blessing.”
Unknown
FAMILY
“This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!”
D.M. Dellinger
CHEER
“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”
William R. Alger
CHEER
“I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.”
George Matthew Adams
CHEER
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
GIVING BACK
“Giving is not just about making a donation, it's about making a difference.”
Kathy Calvin
