Inspirationional Quotes...
 

I know I have been going through a tough time and have decided to do something about it. Im going to TRY to be more positive and to have faith in myself.
I know that we all have times when we could use a little inspriation...
So im starting this thread and intend on posting an inspirational quote every day.
Anyone is welcomed to add thier own!

Here's is my ABSOLUTE favorite....

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same"

~Marianne Williamson

Very nice thankyou for sharing that:thumbup:

I love that one, too (but you already know that!!) I've got tons, so if you ever need another, just let me know!!!

Here is another favorite -

"When I'm losing my balance in a pose, I stretch up higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time and not just in yoga"

~ Terri Guillernetts (The Quote Garden)

I'll be reading everyday. Thanks for starting this.

Heres Todays...
 

I just found this quote recently and really believe in it....kind of what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger...

"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next"

~Og Mandino

Thats a good on.....especially since im just starting Yoga - I loose my balance alot LOL

Keep sharing your quotes...im going to every day!

I hope you liked them! Feel free to share your favorites!

Helen Keller ~

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!)

Awesome Megan!!!!!! I'll be adding the ones I didn't already have to my quote list that I use as a closure to my yoga classes.

Here's a few more I like....

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habit.
Watch your habits, the become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it daily.
For poise, walk with the knoweldge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed...
Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will find you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~ Sam Levinson

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

OH MY GOODNESS - ALL WEEK I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT STARTING A THREAD TO HAVE PEOPLE POST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES!! GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE :D

I love quotes, I collect them - big file :) and I send them out frequently in emails as I sign my name -- and I give my dd one every day.

Ok, here's a favorite:

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -- Mother Teresa

Ive never heard of that one....but its great! I hope you'll share more - I am starting my collection! :)

Wow Megan thanks so much for sharing! There are alot you listed that I had never heard of and one that I had loved and forgot about! I signed up to receive the emails as well! Thanks :) :)

This is an awesome thread!

I hope it helps...I know its been helping me :)