INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.”
Steve Pavlina
COMPLIMENTS
“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.”
Mikhail Bakunin
KINDNESS
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else's life. Don’t be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
KINDNESS
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”
Felix Adler
INCLUDING OTHERS
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
Rachel Carson
INCLUDING OTHERS
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway
COURAGE
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
J.K. Rowling
COURAGE
“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”
Will Durst
COURAGE
“We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we're that much closer to finding what will.”
INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN
PERSISTENCE
“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
WRITER
APPRECIATION
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
ARTIST, INVENTOR, SCIENTIST
INNOVATION
“A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
POET, CRITIC, TRANSLATOR
LEARNING
“A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough.”
POET
INTEGRITY
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
NATURALIST, AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER
AMBITION
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ”
EXCERPT FROM LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET
LOVE
“There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.”
SWEDISH POLITICAL LEADER, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS
COMMITMENT
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
PLAYWRIGHT, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
OPPORTUNITY
“Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used. ”
KINDNESS
“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
ACTRESS
OVERCOMING
“If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.”
LIVE YOUR DREAMS
“When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.”
FIGURE SKATER, OLYMPIC MEDALIST, UNITED STATES PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AMBASSADOR
DRIVE
“The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.”
POET, ARTIST
FRIENDSHIP
“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
SINGER
LAUGHTER
“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”
FIRST FEMALE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP) IN THE ENGLISH HOUSE OF COMMONS
UNITY
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
AUTHOR, EDUCATOR, CLERGYMAN
EXCELLENCE
“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
EDITOR
HUMILITY
“He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows- he breathes but does not live.”
APPRECIATION
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
AUTHOR, LECTURER, ACTIVIST
COURAGE
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
AUTHOR, BUSINESSMAN
OPTIMISM
“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
AUTHOR
INSPIRATION
“Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind can destroy the blessing of a good deed, and it will reform the world. ”
KINDNESS
“You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure. ”
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