Quotable Quotes for Inspiration

Dear Readers,

I often find myself trying to recall a particular quote that has struck a chord with me and from which I have drawn inspiration. I hope you can find some strength and motivation too from the following montage of finely spoken and written words, which I felt were just too good to pass up.

"When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear."
Janet Attwood

"Whether you think you can or can't, you're right."
Henry Ford

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
William Churchhill

"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
The Buddha

"The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself."
Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

"You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done."
Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard

"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you."
Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Who you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear a word you're saying."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."
Robert Collier

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
Saint Jerome

"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Satir

"Whether it's praise, love, criticism, money, time, space, power, punishment, sorrow, laughter, care, pain, or pleasure... the more you give, the more you will receive."
Mike Dooley

"Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!"
Mike Dooley

"Tell the World what you intend to do; but first show it."
Napoleon Hill

"Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap."
Dorothy Corkville Briggs

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
Robyn Davidson

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."
Napoleon Hill

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
Dale Carnegie

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, Something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my "life".
Fr. Alfred D'Souza

"Take time to accept responsibility. Your life is exactly that - It's your life. It is created by you. You are constantly making choices, constantly creating new experiences. And although we can be affected by circumstances which can seem to be completely out of our control. Essentially, we decide the direction in which we walk."
Nicolas Watkins

"The world is not about you. It is about the impact you have on others. The sooner you learn this lesson, the quicker success will come."
Neil Thornton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' "
George Bernard Shaw

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
Dale Carnegie

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."
Charles F. Kettering

"The key to being joyful is being grateful."
Jackie Pflug

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more."
Og Mandino

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."
Jim Stovall

"When you understand, that your disappointment in another's behavior or choices always stems from their immaturity, or yours, rather than their unkindness, or yours, it becomes much harder not to keep skipping through life, giddy with joy, smelling the flowers. Moreover, when you understand that with enough maturity on your end you can always find peace in all of your relationships, it becomes much harder not to run down the street kissing everyone you meet on both cheeks."
Mike Dooley

"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
Russell Lynes

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do.' "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Here's how to view every decision you've ever made: It was right. Here's how to view every path you've ever chosen: It was right. Here's how to view every trend, friend, and dance you've ever moved with: They were right. And here's how to view the fact that you even exist at all: "I" was totally on fire."
Mike Dooley

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head and hands."
Robert M. Pirsig

"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
Thornton Wilder

"I am who I am today, where I am today, because this was my choice and it has served me well. However, it no longer serves me, my choices have changed, and I give thanks for the amazing changes that now sweep through my amazing life."
Mike Dooley

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully." Tryon Edwards

"Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment-- the most priceless of human treasures--are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen--who make *good* things happen--in the world around them."
Joe Klock

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
Dale Carnegie

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller

"A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarrassment at some point. To understand this is to level a sometimes very lopsided playing field."
Anna Nalick

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity."
Kathy Williams

We are so fortunate to have some among us who have the gift of eloquence and are able to put into fine words the thoughts and notions that can lead us to success, happiness, fulfillment and action for the better good of all.

Ardently,

Kathleen