INSPIRING LIFE-LESSON QUOTES

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and God-like. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it || Helen Keller

Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever || Joanne H Morscher

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance || Unknown

There are a group of people that wake up every day and go to work to learn nothing, get nowhere and wonder when and how things will ever change || Don Sabatini

Great minds discuss ideas;

Average minds discuss events;

Small minds discuss people || Unknown

Hot tubs are like relationships! They're almost too hot when you first get in, then after a while it's pure comfort... But if you try to stay in one forever, you will become dehydrated and die! But hey, somehow we all get to drinking and find ourselves waking up in one || Zach Taylor

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one || Mark Twain

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on || Forrest Gump

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase || Martin Luther King Jr

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible || Wayne Dyer

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared || Eddie Rickenbacker

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible || Wayne Dyer

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come || Joseph Campbell

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors || Max Lerner

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up || Mark Twain

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson || Tom Bodett

The starting point of all achievement is desire || Napoleon Hill

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood || Helen Keller

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience || George Washington

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am || Michelle Obama

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure || Bill Gates

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower || Hans Christian Anderson

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower || Hans Christian Anderson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me” || Erma Bombeck

The purpose of life is a life of purpose || Robert Byrne

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day || Elwyn Brooks White

Life is simple, it's just not easy || Unknown

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't || Richard Bach

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow || Terri Guillemets

DREAMS QUOTES

May the best of your dreams be the least of your rewards || Unknown

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope || Aeschylus

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act || Anatole France

Hope is a waking dream || Aristotle

Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream || Rogers & Hammerstein from the song "Climb Every Mountain"

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't || Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life || Cynthia Ozick

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly || Henry David Thoreau

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it || Douglas Adams

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night || Edgar Allen Poe

The wisest men follow their own direction || Euripides

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth || Friedrich von Schiller

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" || George Bernard Shaw

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves || Germaine Greer

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts || Henry Bromel

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them || Homer

We need men who can dream of things that never were || John F. Kennedy

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams || Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream as far as you can see, and when you get there you can see farther || Zig Ziglar

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them || John Updike

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown || Kathe Kollwitz

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds || Kirby Larson

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies || Kirby Larson

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them || Man Ray

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal || Martin Luther King Jr.


I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you || Oprah Winfrey

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning || Oprah Winfrey

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for || Oscar Wilde

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be || Randy K. Milholland

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow || Victor Hugo

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives || William Dement

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy || William Shakespeare

THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING

The experience to be gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former || Samuel Smiles

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone.... || John Maynard Keynes

I think that's the nature of discoveries, many times: that the reason they're difficult is that you've got to take a series of steps, three or four steps, which if you don't make them you won't get there, and if you're wrong in any one of them you won't get there. It isn't a matter of one jump - that would be easy. You've got to make several successive jumps. And usually the pennies drop one after another until eventually it all clicks. Otherwise it would be too easy || Francis Crick

For an ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value, without some sacrifice to it. Something given up, something not taken, something not gained. We do it in exchange for a greater good, for something worth more than just money and power and position. The great paradox of this philosophy is that in the end it brings one greater gain than any other philosophy || Jerry Kohlberg

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me || Charles R. Swindoll

If anything goes bad, I did it.

If anything goes semi-good, then we did it.

If anything goes really good, then you did it.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you || Bear Bryant

Many people will walk in and out of your life,

But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head;

To handle others, use your heart.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;

If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

Great minds discuss ideas;

Average minds discuss events;

Small minds discuss people.

He who loses money, loses much;

He, who loses a friend, loses much more;

He, who loses faith, loses all.

GREAT INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

|| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

|| Franklin D. Roosevelt

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. 

|| Martin Luther King Jr.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

|| William Ellery Channing

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

|| Joshua J. Marine

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

|| Albert Einstein

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

|| George S. Patton

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

|| Henry David Thoreau

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

|| Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

|| Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

|| Danish Proverb

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

|| Henry J. Kaise

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

|| Proverb

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

|| Louis Kossuth

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.|| B. C. Forbes

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

|| Norman Vincent Peale

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. -Robert H. SchullerObstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you|| Jeffrey Gitomer

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

|| Michael Jordan

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.

|| Bob Richards

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

|| Henry Ward Beecher

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

|| Napoleon Hill

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
|| Lou Holtz

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.|| Aristotle

Kites rise highest against the wind-not with it.
||  Winston Churchill

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
|| J. C. Penney

If you're going through hell, keep going.
|| Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
|| Winston Churchill

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
|| James J. Corbett

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
|| Barbara De Angelis

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
|| Walt Disney

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
|| Epictetus

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.|| Denis Waitley

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
|| Paul "Bear" Bryant

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - ssential to success.
|| Napoleon Hill

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.|| Peter Marshall

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
|| Dale Carnegie

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
|| Samuel Johnson

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
|| Franklin D Roosevelt

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
|| John J. Watson

It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
|| William Somerset Maugham

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
|| Swedish Proverb

To him who is determined it remains only to act.
|| Italian Proverb

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

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
|| Tommy Lasorda