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 :)

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.

"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!

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

~Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

yokie3, I agree!!

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

My Quote for the Day
 

"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.

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

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

1,000 Post
 

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!

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

That's funny!