Inspirational Quotes I

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by

the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."

- Marsha Sinetar

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

"A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others."

- Joe Brown

"Don't let setbacks get you down. Studying successful people will show you that they did not attain their success without first overcoming challenges."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"We are all faced with challenges at some point in our life, challenges that we did not create. Challenges that happened beyond our control. The difference is how we respond to these challenges. You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."

- Jan Glidewell

"If you accept what has happened and search for the positive, you will be able to move forward in your life."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on. It is one of the hardest things a person can do... We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so."

- Unknown

"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become."

- Unknown

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities."

- John C. Maxwell

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

- Ben Stein

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

- Mike Murdock

"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."

- James Dillet Freeman

"A man's life is what his thoughts make it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

- Walt Disney

"Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life."

- Remez Sasson