INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Helen Keller
STRENGTH
“When something bad happens you have three choices: You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel
STRENGTH
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
STRENGTH
“Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.”
Carly Patterson
STRENGTH
“A tree is known by its fruit; a person by their deeds. A good deed is never lost; whoever sows courtesy reaps friendship, and whoever plants kindness gathers love.”
Saint Basil
COURTESY
“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
BELIEVE
“A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.”
Nelson Mandela
LEADERSHIP
“A leader is someone willing to give their strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
Beth Revis
LEADERSHIP
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode
LEADERSHIP
“Great things can be achieved by leading through wisdom, empathy, and integrity—with no other agenda than humanity.”
Richard Branson
LEADERSHIP
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
Dolly Parton
LEADERSHIP
“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
HH The Dalai Lama
LOVE
“Don’t give up trying what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
Ella Jane Fitzgerald
LOVE
“We can’t heal the world today. But we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, and an act of kindness.”
Mary Davis
LOVE
“Every person in this life has something to teach—and as soon as you accept that, you open yourself to truly listening.”
Catherine Doucette
LISTENING
“I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that; then I realized that I am somebody.”
Unknown
STEWARDSHIP
“Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.”
Catherine DeVrye
RESILIENCY
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
EXPLORING
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
EXPLORING
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”
Harold Kushner
KINDNESS
“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.”
Alison Malee
KINDNESS
“One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.”
Rita Zahara
HELPING OTHERS
“Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else.”
Kobi Yamada
HELPING OTHERS
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
Fred Rogers
HELPING OTHERS
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
OPTIMISM
“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities—always see them, for they’re always there.”
Norman Vincent Peale
OPTIMISM
“Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Jack Layton
