Inspirationional Quotes...

[Oscar's Mom]

I got this in an email...not sure who said it...but I think it is good.

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to
you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay,
and who you refuse to let go.

[For My Coby]

"I have my dreams. I have made plans." - The Pirate Queen musical

........Actually one of my newest favorite ones is the tagline that Megan uses. I recently sent it to my 21 year old daughter because it was like it was written FOR her and BY her. I love looking at the world through her eyes.

[MeganS]

Originally Posted by For My Coby

"I have my dreams. I have made plans." - The Pirate Queen musical

........Actually one of my newest favorite ones is the tagline that Megan uses. I recently sent it to my 21 year old daughter because it was like it was written FOR her and BY her. I love looking at the world through her eyes.

ah, I'm glad you like it. I totally forgot that I had it in my sig, but it is positivly my favorite thing in the entire world. I hope your daughter enjoys it!

[sabsab00]

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

~Abraham Lincoln

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by MeganS

I LOVE that one. (PS - after doing yoga 5 times a week for 3 weeks, its grown on me. But now that class is over and I'm really sad. )


I actually get daily emails from a site called www.mrpositive.com and I get uplifting quotes almost every day:

Some of my favorites:

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

--Goethe

Do not die without having lived. Give yourself the
opportunity to show your true color and when you do
go, go out in a blaze of glory.
--Bernie S. Siegel

Success is going from failure to failure without
a loss of enthusiam. --Winston Churchill

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them. --John F. Kennedy

Every noble work is, at first, impossible.
--Thomas Carlyle


If you want to get the best out of a man,
you must look for the best that is in him.
--Bernard Haldane


If you think you can, you can. And if you
think you can't, you're right.
--Mary Kay Ash


When we see problems as opportunities for growth,
we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves
which carries us through. --Marsha Sinetar

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself,
become the maker of your own life.
--Warren G. Bennis

To know even one life has breathed easier
because you lived...is to have succeeded!
--Emerson

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk
of your life...Time is the only wealth we're given.
-Barbara Sher

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important
thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life
and repeat to yourself the most comforting words
of all: "This, too, shall pass."
--Ann Landers

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
--Helen Keller

Sometimes you gotta create what you want
to be a part of. --Geri Weitzman

It's not the years in your life but the life
in your years that counts.
--Adlai Stevenson

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
--Alfred Whitefield

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
who finds himself, loses his misery.
--Matthew Arnold

For every minute you are angry, you
lose sixty seconds of happiness.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can have anything you want if you want it
desperately enough. You must want it with an
exuberance that erupts through the skin and
joins the energy that created the world.
--Sheila Graham

The most powerful weapon on earth is the
human soul on fire. --Ferdinand Foch

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

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks,
jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always
going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling
for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
--George Lucas

Do what you can where you are with
what you've got. --Theodore Roosevelt

Without hope, we cannot survive, much less progress.
--Warren G. Bennis

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


( PS -- sorry for the overload!)

Love yours Megan....here are a few more

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details. Albert Einstein
100% of the shots you don't take don't go in. Wayne Gretzky
scroll down for more:

'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where --' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. M.K. Gandhi

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Dr. Napoleon Hill

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want. Zig Ziglar
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain

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

I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. Helen Steiner Rice

[Suzy]

These are wonderful everyone...just what I needed today.

[Yorkie3]

This is the best thread ever!!! I will be coming here everyday to read all the new quotes.

[crystalsmom]

yokie3, I agree!!

Don't know how I could forget the one I have taped to my bathroom mirror

"Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement"

Someone I love very much gave me that when I was quite young and as I would move I would be sure to untape and tape on my new mirror...somehow I needed it.

[yorkiesmiles]

"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back." -- Harvey Mackay



How will you use your gift of time today??

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles

"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back." -- Harvey Mackay



How will you use your gift of time today??

Love it and never heard it before.

[sabsab00]

Originally Posted by crystalsmom

yokie3, I agree!!

Don't know how I could forget the one I have taped to my bathroom mirror

"Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement"

Someone I love very much gave me that when I was quite young and as I would move I would be sure to untape and tape on my new mirror...somehow I needed it.

Great quote! It must feel good to see that first thing in the morning!

[MeganS]

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles

"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back." -- Harvey Mackay



How will you use your gift of time today??

Yorkiesmiles, that was an awesome quote. I really love it.

There are a few more I'd like to add:

“Nothing is written in the stars, not these stars nor any others. No one controls your destiny.” - the novel of Wicked

"Never tell me the skys the limit when there are footprints on the moon..." - (I don't know what that's from)

"Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespere's Julius Caesar

"You future lies before you like a path of winter snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show." (I don't know what that's from either. But my social studies teacher had it hanging in his room last year, and I have loved it since the first time I saw it)

"Let the moment go
Don't forget it for a moment though"
- "Moment in the Woods" from Into the Woods

"For the wretched of the Earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise."
-"Finale" from Les Miserables

"You should be so excited about your lives. We are so blessed and therefore should be impassioned about who we are, what we can do with our talents, what the world has to offer. And if you aren't excited about today... there's always tomorrow!" ~ Stephanie J. Block

[sabsab00]

So I have decided to make my 1000 post something that I sing to myself when im stressed out...its REALLY silly but it works for me - maybe it will for you too??

"What would you doooooo for a Klondike bar"

I sing it to myself like in those old commercials...LOL I know I know...im a nut!

[Yorkiekids]

I signed up for the email inspirational quotes. Can't wait to start getting them.

[For My Coby]

Originally Posted by sabsab00

So I have decided to make my 1000 post something that I sing to myself when im stressed out...its REALLY silly but it works for me - maybe it will for you too??

"What would you doooooo for a Klondike bar"

I sing it to myself like in those old commercials...LOL I know I know...im a nut!

That's funny!