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"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe

Ok this reminded me of a quote I heard YEARS ago! Its not inspirational but kinda! HAHA

Live by the 7 Ps... "proper prior planning prevents p*ss poor performance" :)

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. --John Lennon

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings." --Kate Chopin, The Awakening.

Uggh Ive been having YT withdrawls :)
 

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a "doer"! -- Josh S. Hinds

"Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return." -- Josh S. Hinds

This one Ive been saying to myself over and over and over and over...

"Failure is not my Destiny."

As we wrap up our Adopt-A program at work, and people have been super generous, this seems like an apt quotation:

All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. -- Edwin Markham

Seems equally appropriate for all the great YTers out there ...

I'm not sure how I missed this thread for like the whole month. I love quotes and there were a lot on here that I had not heard.

Here's my favorite, my softball coach told me this a long time ago.

"Things are changing and if you don't change with them, you're going to get left behind."

Maybe it's not inspirational but it's helped me through some of life's changes.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Hellen Keller

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foolsih man looks for happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

Here are some of my favorites. (Sorry if they've already been mentioned...)


Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed , it's the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. ~Mother Teresa

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. ~Benjamin Franklin

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. ~Dumbledore

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ~Dumbledore

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ~Dumbledore

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~Dumbeldore

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~Sirius Black

They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. ~John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poet's Society

The best and most beatiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one!' ~C.S. Lewis

"Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away." ~Hitch (Will Smith)

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

got one more,

after having a baby,

"You finally realize that true joy doesn't come from material weath"
anonymous

Here is an awesome website for motivational thoughts that I look at every day. It is one of the best websites I have found for inspiration and motivation. http://greatday.com/motivate/

Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. -- Linda Ellerbee

" Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
Henry David Thoreau

A new favorite!
 

" No one will manufacture a lock without a key. Similarly, god won't give us problems without solutions."
Author Unknown

That is probably one of my favorite quotes. I've never heard it before, but I just love it so much. Thank you!

I know I'm not getting this right and I don't know who said it first, but I say it to my kids all the time:

"True character is doing what's right when nobody's watching"

This one I'm applying TODAY
 

Dear Abby (the original)
 

Found this one today - had to send it to my 18 year old -- who keeps saying "I'm 18" :rolleyes:

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. – Abigail Van Buren


Who else has one to add?

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. - Mark Houlahan

Do you have one to share??