–Inspirational/Advice

Just remember, when life knocks you down on
your knees… you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Unknown

If you only do what you know you can do, you’ll never do very much.
Tom Krause

Oh, don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Shulz

At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your time drawing lines. Or you can live your lives crossing them.
Grey’s Anatomy

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, and every piece you finish.
John Jakes

Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you don’t love and respect yourself, no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are completely; the good and the bad. And make changes as you see fit. Not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
Stacey Charter

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
Vince Lombardi

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship, and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James

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.
Helen Keller

People are always blaming their circumstances for who they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. 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.
George Bernard Shaw

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
Hitch

Every man dies, not every man really lives.
Braveheart

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

Nobody ever said that life was gonna be fair. You’re never gonna get nowhere by running scared. If you look down deep inside, you’ll find the faith to make you strong. Oh, carry on.
Tim McGraw

Never think about the future, because it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

This is your life and it’s ending, one minute at a time.
Fight Club

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.
Robert Heller

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of somebody else’s.
Billy Wilder

It’s the magic of risking everything, for a dream nobody sees but YOU.
Million Dollar Baby

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
Phil 2:3 (NKJV)

If you’re gonna get wet, might as well go swimming.
Matchstick Men

Speak when you are angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

For gorgeous eyes, seek out the good in people. For a beautiful smile, speak words of kindness. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you’ll never walk alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.
Braveheart

It is better, much better, to have wisdom and knowledge than gold and silver.
Proverbs 16:16

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths,
Question your assumptions,
Be kind to yourself, live for the moment,
Loosen up, scream, curse the world,
Count your blessings, just let go,
Just be.
Carol Shields

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.
Don Ward

You set yourself up for happiness or you set yourself up for sadness. Either way, it’s your doing.
Jill Davis

As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda-shoulda-woulda, buckle up, and just keep going.
Sex &The City

If you’re feeling a little frightened about what comes next…don’t. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes. Because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up, and find yourself lose, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart…where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.
Everwood

Hate is baggage, life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it.
American Hist X

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted. One moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Eminem

When you take that field today, you’ve got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the souls of your feet, with every ounce of blood you’ve got in your body, lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you do that, if you do that, we cannot lose. We may be behind on the scoreboard at the end of the game but if you play like that we cannot be defeated. Now we came here today to remember six young men and sixty-nine others who will not be on the field with you today, but they will be watching. You can bet your ass that they’ll be gritting their teeth with every snap of that football. You understand me? How you play today, from this moment on is how you will be remembered. This is your opportunity to rise from these ashes and grab glory. We are…MARSHALL
The funerals end today.
We Are Marshall

Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will break away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that’s when our vision clears. That’s when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Everwood

You have to learn to walk. You have to learn to talk. You have to
wear that totally ridiculous hat your grandma bought you. You have
no say in the matter. And when you get a little older, even though
you get to choose your hats, you don’t get to choose what they put
in those meatballs in the cafeteria, or when to fall in love.
Sometimes things happen and you just have to deal.
How to Deal

You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink ’til sunrise. The work never ends, but high school does.
Tom Petty

You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football . Because in either game – life or football – the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow , too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that’s gonna make the fucking difference between winnin’ and losin’! Between livin’ and dyin’! I’ll tell ya this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willin’ to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin’ to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin’ is!
Any Given Sunday

If you’re already walking on thin ice, why not dance?
Gil Atkinson

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway

I guess I’m learning, little by little, that we decide what our lives are going to be. Things happen to us, but it is our reactions that matter.
Felicity

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway

Do whatever makes you happy, but do it now. Live life for the moment
because everything else is uncertain. Take advantage of what is right
in front of you.
One Tree Hill

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z: imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

If you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elizabeth Kubler Ros

If there was nothing wrong in the world, there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen R. Covey

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
Albert Einstein

If you’re brave to say “good bye,” life will reward you with a new “hello.”
Paulo Coelho

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
St. Therese of Lisieux

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You are on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss

I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell

If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, colorful, and lively.
Mel Brooks

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
Dr. Seuss

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Spanish Proverb

A year from now you will wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
John Mason

Let’s take the good times as they go, and I’ll meet you further on up the road.
Bruce Springsteen

Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Albus Dumbledore

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Keonig

Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Aurelius

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains in them?
Rose Kennedy

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb

People are lazy by nature, but if you keep going you win. Thank goodness for mediocrity.
Jennifer Nettles

If one is not curious in ones youth, how does one expect to be wise in ones age?
Claire Carter

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still!
Chinese Proverb

Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.
Steve Jobs

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Millner

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein

Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and where you want to be.
Gossip Girl

When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
Anna Quindlen

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
Rainer Maria Rilke

Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria’s curse? I’d like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.
Practical Magic

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you’d always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
Mitch Albom

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

The bottom line is, life is about learning, whether you’re in school or not. We are human. We make mistakes. But your lowest moment might also be the one where you begin to rise, and rise. So double back. Regroup. Brush yourself off, and try again.
Sarah Dessen

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams.
John Galliano

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep it in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

I never worry about diets; the only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Let the beauty we love become the good we do.
Rumi

Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves — our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
William E. Simon

Not everything has wonderful closure but there’s always another time. Put the relationship first. The quality of the negotiating is much more important than what you are negotiating.
Rori Raye

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr. Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn’t matter who it is- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castenada

The thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does?
Patrick McWilliams

Don’t let go too soon. But don’t hang on too long.
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

It will require a determined heart and more than a little courage to wrench ourselves loose from the grip of our times and return to Biblical ways.
A.W. Tozer

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
Jim Carrey

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
Bertrand Russell

Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W. M. Lewis

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday.
Euripides

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Lucian

Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo.
Dr. Sara Jordan

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli

If you’re going through Hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
Henry David Thoreau

Use what talents you posess; the woods would be very silent if no birds snag there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

God never sends us more than we can handle.
Mother Theresa

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
Sir Winston Churchill

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell

Be what you are. This if the first step toward becoming better than you are.
August W. Hare

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confuscius

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Vince Lombardi

There are no gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James B. Conant

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
Napoleon Hill

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus

I do not like to repeat successes; I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Einstein

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
William Arthur Ward

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles F. Kettering

The nobles search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon. B. Johnson

The ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu

The real leader has no need to lead; he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
Napoleon Hill

The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

How far that little cnadle thorws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Shakespeare

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
Albert Einstein

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lae Tzu

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George F. Burns

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordon

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.
Victor Kermit Kiam

Improvement begins with I.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin L. Powell

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expcts of you.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.
Brian Tracy

Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
Mortimer Adler

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.
Henry Hodkins

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination.
Carol Lloyd

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey

In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude.
Catherine Pulsifer

The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try.
Charles F. Kettering

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln

When you are trying to move mountains, you want—and you need –people on your side who want to move them with you.
Jamie Oliver

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
Jackson Brown

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Create your future from your future, not from your past.
Werner Erhard

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar