These uplifting quotes for inspiration and motivation convey
a powerful message with a few simple words.

We hope you can find a few that have special meaning for you.

A few of these uplifting quotes are shown in the top right corner of the blog.

   
“Do we quit playing because we grow old,
or do we grow old because we quit playing?”
- Source Unknown -

   
“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.”
- Ruth Ann Schabaker -

   
“Life is like riding a bicycle…
To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
- Albert Einstein -

   
“To the world you might be one person,
but to one person you might be the world.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“It’s better to lend a hand than point a finger.”
- Jackie Phillips -

   
“Shoot for the moon… even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
- Les Brown -

   
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford – (also credited to Mary Kay Ash)

   
“The best angle to use in any situation is the TRY-angle.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“In a full heart there is room for everything,
and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
- Antonio Porchia -

   
“The best way to predict your future is to create it!”
- Old Chinese Proverb -

   
“Never be afraid to try something new… remember,
the Titanic was built by professionals,
but Noah’s Ark was built by an amateur.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers -

   
“Your belief determines your action and your action determines
your results, but first you have to believe.”
- Mark Victor Hansen -

   
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison -

   
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astonish ourselves”
- Thomas Edison -

   
“It is not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?”
- Henry David Thoreau -

   
”Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
- Lance Armstrong, 7-Time Winner of the Tour de France -

   
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- Walt Disney -

   
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
- Joe Girard -

   
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau -

   
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
- Jimi Hendrix -

   
“No one knows what they can do until they try.”
- Les Brown -

   
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
- Vince Lombardi -

   
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
- Seneca, American Indian Leader -

   
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
- Billie Jean King -

   
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you’ll start having positive results.”
- Willie Nelson -

   
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
- Sir Winston Churchill -

   
“It is hard to fail, but worse never to have tried to succeed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt -

   
“The key to happiness is having a dream.
The key to success is making dreams come true.”
- Source Unknown -

   
“Success is an attitude.”
- Source Unknown -

   
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”
- Bernard Berenson -

   
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.”
- General Norman Schwarzkopf -

   
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb… that’s where the fruit is.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“It’s a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything
but the best, you very often get it.”
- W. Somerset Maugham -

   
“Things have a way of working out okay in the end…
if it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“It is always too early to quit.”
- Norman Vincent Peale -

   
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius -

   
“Gravity is automatic… you must propel yourself upward”
- Source Unknown -

   
“Some goals are so worthy that it is glorious even to fail.”
- Source Unknown -

   
“Many people worry about what other people will think of them.
But few realize the world forms its opinion of us largely from the
opinion we have of ourselves.”
- Les Giblin -

   
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
- Eleanore Roosevelt -

   
“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
- Robert H. Schuller -

   
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.”
- Mother Teresa -

   
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
- Scott Adams -

   
“Because I took a moment to speak, and you took a second to smile,
a tiny part of me will leave with you, and a little bit of you will stay.”
- Jevan -

   
“Decision is the spark that ignites action.
Until a decision is made, nothing happens.”
- Wilfred A. Peterson -

   
“Never look down on anybody, unless you’re helping them up.”
- Unknown -

   
“If you’re going to dream, dream big. It’s free.”
- Unknown -

   
“Follow your dream… If you stumble, don’t stop and lose sight of your goal,
press on to the top. For only on top can we see the whole view.”
- Amanda Bradley -

   
“Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!”
- Author Unknown -

   
“The human body is equipped with 2 ears and 1 mouth,
and we should use them in that same proportion.”
- Author Unknown -

   
“The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is
a gift, and that’s why this moment is called the present.”
- Source Unknown -

   
   
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