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| Quote | author |
| Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. | Francis of Assisi |
| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. | Helen Keller |
| I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. | Jimmy Dean |
| The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| We know what we are, but know not what we may be. | William Shakespeare |
| Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. | Walt Whitman |
| Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. | Vince Lombardi |
| What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. | Aristotle Onassis |
| No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. | Aesop |
| I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ | Muhammad Ali |
| Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. | Martin Luther |
| If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. | Bear Bryant |
| Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? | Robert Browning |
| We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. | Joseph Campbell |
| If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. | Isaac Newton |
| Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Change your thoughts and you change your world. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. | Edith Wharton |
| If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. | Milton Berle |
| It is never too late to be what you might have been. | George Eliot |
| Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. | Swami Sivananda |
| The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. | Ben Okri |
| Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. | Nido Qubein |
| I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today! | William Allen White |
| Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. | Ella Fitzgerald |
| Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. | Democritus |
| No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. | Robin Williams |
| The only journey is the one within. | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. | Kevyn Aucoin |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Give light and people will find the way. | Ella Baker |
| Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Out of difficulties grow miracles. | Jean de la Bruyere |
| My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. | Maya Angelou |
| Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. | Sharon Begley |
| Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. | Malala Yousafzai |
| I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. | Neil Armstrong |
| Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. | Maya Angelou |
| A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. | Jack Dempsey |
| When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. | Carol Burnett |
| Light tomorrow with today! | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. | Morgan Freeman |
| Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. | Warren Buffett |
| Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. | Octavia E. Butler |
| The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. | Vince Lombardi |
| Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. | Desmond Tutu |
| Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. | Arthur Helps |
| It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. | Amelia Barr |
| Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! | Audrey Hepburn |
| Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. | Malala Yousafzai |
| Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost |
| Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world. | Tommy Douglas |
| If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. | James E. Faust |
| The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. | Richard L. Evans |
| If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. | Lucy Larcom |
| It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. | Andrew Wyeth |
| In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. | Jim Rohn |
| Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. | Steve Jobs |
| Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| The power of imagination makes us infinite. | John Muir |
| From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. | Aeschylus |
| Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. | Michael Jackson |
| The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. | Wallace Stevens |
| God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. | Arthur Young |
| Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. | Buddha |
| We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. | Ronald Reagan |
| What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. | Plutarch |
| The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. | Arthur C. Clarke |
| The best way out is always through. | Robert Frost |
| Ideas shape the course of history. | John Maynard Keynes |
| Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. | Johannes Brahms |
| Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. | Edward Young |
| There is nothing impossible to him who will try. | Alexander the Great |
| Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. | Vincent McNabb |
| Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. | Alan Alda |
| A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. | Joseph Campbell |
| Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. | Mary Kay Ash |
| Believe you can and you’re halfway there. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. | Jim Elliot |
| Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell. | Bill Copeland |
| I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. | Gustave Flaubert |
| Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. | Han Suyin |
| Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. | John Wayne |
| We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. | Helen Hayes |
| Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. | Bernard Williams |
| A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. | Francis of Assisi |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | Anne Frank |
| The things that we love tell us what we are. | Thomas Aquinas |
| It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. | Tony Robbins |
| Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. | Augustus Hare |
| When deeds speak, words are nothing. | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. | Hosea Ballou |
| As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. | John F. Kennedy |
| Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. | Plato |
