Inspiring Quotes...

I am not sure if this has been posted before, but I am too lazy to click on the search option, so leave me alone.

Anyway, I am a sucker for this type of stuff, but I really love inspiring and motivational quotes, and sometimes when times get tough I read some of these as a source of encouragement. So I'll post some of my favorite ones, I have these taped to a wall, on fridge, and in my personal binder as a reminder.




Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the
rest of your life there

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it
touches and hurts the one who is possessed by it more
than the one against whom it is directed

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in
in harmony with your dominant thoughts

Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help
them to become what they are capable of being

There is no security in life. There is only opportunity.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. Don't complain

God, 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.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better place because you were important in the life of a person

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves.

Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom

"You are not finished when you lose, your finished when you quit."

"The difference between dreams and accomplishments is purely desire"

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself

"It is not how busy you are that matters , it is why you are busy ..... the bee is praised while the mosquito is swatted"

"Only he who dares to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing"

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

"ask not for lighter burdens, but broader shoulders."

Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

There's no excuse to go about your business in a half-assed way. We are only alive for a finite number of days, and we're poorer for every hour that we spend in soft-hearted pursuits. We rob ourselves when we submit to diluted entertainments and settle for second-rate gratifications

"Fall down seven times, get up eight"

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

I must admit, I am a sucker for quotes too . Even certain parts of songs or lines in movies stick out to me. I have a bunch saved on my computer, I even have this idea of making a quote book and put all of them in it, but it's just one of those things I plan but never actually get around into doing, lol.

Here's just a couple I like:

"Heaven never helps the man who will not act."
Sophocles


"Strength is nothing more then
how you hide the pain."


"God doesn't give you the people you want.
Instead, he gives you the people you need.
To teach you, to hurt you, to love you
and to make you exactly the way you're meant to be."


"Without suffering, there'd be no compassion." A walk to remember, hehe


"...the time will come for us to finally win." T. Swift

so i guess im not the only quote-lover
my favorite ones:
"even if youre having the worst day of your life, keep a smile, and give it to a stranger, because you dont know if they need it more then you do."

"dont ever look down on a person unless you are helping them back up"

"you are unique. in all the history of the world there was never anyone else exactly like you"- Barbara Smallwood

"the important thing is to never stop questioning"- Albert Einstein

then the all-time favorite ones:

"how dare you? dont you ever underestimate me."

and of course..
"you just cant beat the person who never gives up"- Babe Ruth




.. and the inscription on lady liberty's base in ny
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-lost to me"

Oh I love quotes! heres a few of my favorite ones:

"You can take your PhD and shove it up your ass!" -Accepted

"God grant you the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and wisdom to know the difference."

"It may be stormy now but it can't rain forever."

"Last week saw me living for nothing but deadlines." -Awakening by Switchfoot

"You'll quietly revise your definition of love and try to be happy. And sometimes you will be.
Only in the wistfulness in your gaze and the tiny pause before you say 'I love you' will hint that this wasn't the ending you'd hope for."

"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

"Procrastinators of the world unite!... tomorrow."

"... when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro (or undocumented), living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait." -Letter from Birmingham Jail MLK Jr.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"

When you ain't got nothing...you got nothing to loose--

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte

Real good quotes ill ream some more later, im kinda tired right now

"If you have the power to make a difference you should put it to good use."