Inspiring Life Quotations

Inspiring Life Quotations

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
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The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it's a different kind of life.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Bil Keane
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald Trump
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Edwin C. Bliss
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Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey
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When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Unknown
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Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Zig Ziglar
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset Maugham
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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown
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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Rumi
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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary.
Major Kira Nerys (from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
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Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Unknown
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes A. Gaertner
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown
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Someone once asked me 'why do you always insist on taking the hard road?' and I replied 'why do you assume I see two roads?'
Unknown
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Joyce Brothers
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious.
A. B. Zu Tavern
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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.
Unknown
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
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Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
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Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
John N. Mitchell
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz
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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Unknown
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.