INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Grit is not just a simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest and do it again and again.”
Sarah Lewis
GRIT
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel
LAUGHTER
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
JUSTICE
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
Nelson Mandela
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“We can choose to be affected by the world or we can choose to affect the world. ”
Heidi Wills
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.”
Leonardo da Vinci
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
Dan Fallon
FORGIVENESS
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
FORGIVENESS
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
COURAGE
“To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula. It's an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all and each person must look for that courage in their own soul. ”
John F. Kennedy
COURAGE
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
James Neil Hollingworth
COURAGE
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
Orison Swett Marden
COURAGE
“This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.”
Victoria Lincoln
COURAGE
“When it comes time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ”
Henry David Thoreau
LIVE LIFE
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
MINDFULNESS
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
INSPIRATION
“Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Jim Henson
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
Bob Talbert