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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

Related topics: Motivational

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk

I Dream with Powerful Intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

You are the Michelangelo of your own life.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts.
- Joe Vitale

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future,
and I empower my intent to
transform those visions into reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie