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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” – Robert Fritz
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision.” – Sir Cecil Beaton
“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.” – don Miguel Ruiz
“Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourself is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people’s demands. We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.” – don Miguel Ruiz
“Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“When you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that its stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“Ask yourself this: would your childhood self be proud of you, or embarrassed?” – Unknown
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are what we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The quality and fullness of our lives is not measured in length, but in the love and examples we leave those we have left behind.” – Unknown
“Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.” – Grey’s Anatomy
“You’re braver than you believe, smarter than you think, and stronger than you seem.” – A. A. Milne
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
“There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.” – from Apple commercial
“Every morning I ask myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” – Steve Jobs
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” – Albert Einstein
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.” Henry Ford
“Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
“With our thought we make the world.” Buddha
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” – from A League of Their Own
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived–that is truly to have succeeded.” – Unknown
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” – G.B. Shaw
“Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.” – Tony Robbins
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” – Winston Churchill
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
What are some of your favorite quotes? I’d love to hear them!
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