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Top 9000+ Inspirational Quotes Series Part 104

Top 9000+ Inspirational Quotes Series Part 104
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The series will publish lists of motivational quotes and inspirational quotes. The page will guide you through all the articles published under this series. By reading these inspiring quotes you will get a daily dose of inspiration & motivation.

Inspirational Quotes Series Part 104

  1. Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. ~ Rashi
  2. It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. ~ Mary Renault
  3. Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful. ~ Lea Michele
  4. Just as it is known That an image of one’s face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of “I” exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a faceThe “I” does not at all exist as its own reality. ~ Nāgārjuna
  5. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! ~ William Shakespeare
  6. You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time.” It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah’s show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it. ~ Oprah Winfrey
  7. let your haters be your motivators ~ Nikki Carter
  8. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure. ~ Rob Brezsny
  9. Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST. ~ Lauren Graham
  10. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed the difference. I’ve always dreamt big. ~ Michael J. Fox
  11. Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
  12. Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. ~ Joseph Campbell
  13. Why give up? Why give in? ~ Breaking Benjamin
  14. Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t come with money and it doesn’t come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That’s having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That’s having a life of success. That’s what having a life of meaning is. ~ Tim Tebow
  15. When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift. ~ Justina Chen
  16. Every villian is a hero in his own mind. ~ Tom Hiddleston
  17. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out… Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes. ~ Golda Poretsky
  18. Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  19. That’s the trouble with loving a wild thing: You’re always left watching the door. ~ Edith Pattou
  20. The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon ~ Ken Kesey
  21. Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world. ~ Amit Ray
  22. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there ~ Bob Proctor
  23. We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~ William Wilberforce
  24. Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son. ~ Santosh Kalwar
  25. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. ~ C.G. Jung
  26. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backward, or sideways. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  27. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. ~ George S. Patton Jr.
  28. People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places. ~ Mitch Albom
  29. Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~ Nancy Willard
  30. If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. ~ Jim Stovall
  31. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents. ~ Eric Hoffer
  32. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ~ T.S. Eliot
  33. Rule your mind or it will rule you. ~ Horace
  34. World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!! ~ Mary Kate
  35. We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries. ~ Brother Andrew
  36. A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute. ~ Tobsha Learner
  37. Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on! ~ Tricia Cunningham
  38. Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony. ~ Paulo Coelho
  39. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  40. Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
  41. Hello!” He said hello and then said, “What are you up to now?” “I’m still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. “I don’t think I’d like that,” he said. “You might if you tried.” “I never have.” She licked her lips. “Rain even tastes good.” “What do you do, go around trying everything once?” he asked. “Sometimes twice. ~ Ray Bradbury
  42. it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance – the one which suddenly directs the symphony. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
  43. There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! ~ Abbie Hoffman
  44. The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish. ~ Rodney A. Winters
  45. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~ David McCullough
  46. I don’t really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven. ~ Bethany Hamilton
  47. We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are. ~ Morrie Camhi
  48. It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them. ~ Martina Boone
  49. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. ~ Eric Micha’el Leventhal
  50. You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible. ~ Henry Ford
  51. Pippa’s laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. ‘Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It’s misery. I wish I were someone else. ~ Libba Bray
  52. People who do not love themselves can adore others because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it. ~ Andrew Matthews
  53. Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived. ~ Shane Claiborne
  54. Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day. ~ Vera Nazarian
  55. Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence, there would be no rhythm. ~ Thomas Merton
  56. I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be. ~ Francesca Lia Block
  57. No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! ~ Tricia Cunningham
  58. Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s. ~ Sandy Nathan
  59. Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves. ~ Jack R. Rose
  60. Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself. ~ Corita Kent
  61. The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~ Abbie Hoffman
  62. They will only care when you’re gone. ~ Marilyn Monroe
  63. All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about. ~ Harvey Milk
  64. But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. ~ Libba Bray
  65. If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride ~ Karen Horney
  66. If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead….they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things. ~ Sharon Swan
  67. Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: ‘My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, “The Cookiepants Hypotenuse.”‘ Or else they get unbearably cutesy: ‘My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn’t oo, squeezums? ~ Connie Willis
  68. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve ~ W. Clement Stone
  69. You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place. ~ Kelly Link
  70. We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. ~ José Martí
  71. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. ~ Michael Moorcock
  72. stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
  73. When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied. “It’s so seldom I have one. ~ Bill Bryson
  74. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. ~ William Blake
  75. If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. ~ Daniel C. Dennett
  76. Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. ~ Stephen King
  77. We are wiser than we know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  78. You can t coast uphill. ~ Roger Crawford
  79. Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ~ Walter Isaacson
  80. Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath…It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. ~ Nicholas Sparks
  81. Never run from the enemy, tackle them ~ Victoria Addino
  82. People always ask me”Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?”To them I always say Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire that burns you up inside? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming With that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Cause if you want it all You’ve got to lay it all out on the line ~ Tim McGraw
  83. I think you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ~ Orson Scott Card
  84. Men are born to succeed, not to fail. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  85. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love. ~ Amit Ray
  86. What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them. ~ Toni Morrison
  87. A mind possessed by unmade books. ~ Michael Faudet
  88. A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. ~ Ray A. Davis
  89. A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. ~ Rita Mae Brown
  90. I don’t know exactly where ideas come from, but when I’m working well ideas just appear. I’ve heard other people say similar things – so it’s one of the ways I know there’s help and guidance out there. It’s just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard. ~ Jim Henson
  91. The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself. ~ Shannon L. Alder
  92. Inspiration is always a surprising visitor. ~ John O’Donohue
  93. Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. ~ Robert Bloch
  94. Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the keyring that opens the door. ~ Paulo Coelho
  95. There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. ~ Cynthia Hand
  96. In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ~ Robert Fanney
  97. Maybe it’s what we don’t say/that saves us. ~ Dorianne Laux
  98. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ~ Toni Morrison
  99. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ~ Brian Tracy
  100. I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. ~ Vincent van Gogh

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