Best 158 Inspirational Quotes

Make greatness attainable by all.

@John Wooden

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Seek significant change.

@John Wooden

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Adversity is your asset.

@John Wooden

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I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.

@Lucille Ball

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There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living.

@Nelson Mandela

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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet.

@Unknown

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If you think you are too small to do a big thing, try doing small things in a big way.

@Unknown

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

@Galileo Galilei

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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

@James Dean

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

@Steve Jobs

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

@Andre Gide

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You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

@William W. Purkey

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

@Chuck Swindoll

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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

@Dale Carnegie

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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

@Dale Carnegie

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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

@H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

@Sarah Addison Allen

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I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

@Bridget Davis

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

@Rusty Berkus

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So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

@Dr. Seuss

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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

@Mahatma Gandhi

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

@Oscar Wilde

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

@Eleanor Roosevelt

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

@Mahatma Gandhi

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

@Bil Keane

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

@Albert Einstein

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

@Albert Einstein

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

@Marilyn Monroe

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

@Thomas Edison

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

@George Eliot

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

@Theodore Roosevelt

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

@Dr. Seuss

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Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

@G. K. Chesterton

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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

@Shel Silverstein

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I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

@Audrey Hepburn

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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

@Mother Teresa

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

@Winston Churchill

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

@Maya Angelou

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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 their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. 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 discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

@Sam Levenson

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

@Henri Nouwen

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Peace begins with a smile..

@Mother Teresa

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

@Robert Fulghum

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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

@Mahatma Gandhi

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

@Eleanor Roosevelt

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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

@Paulo Coelho

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

@Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'

@Audrey Hepburn

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

@George Bernard Shaw

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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

@Paulo Coelho

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

@Robert Louis Stevenson

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

@Martin Luther King Jr.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

@Maya Angelou

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

@Martin Luther King Jr.

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

@Gautama Buddha

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

@C. S. Lewis

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Try a little harder to be a little better.

@Gordon B. Hinckley

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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

@John F. Kennedy

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May you live every day of your life.

@Jonathan Swift

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Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

@Cornelia Funke

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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

@Oprah Winfrey

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

@Gautama Buddha

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

@Pablo Picasso

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

@Eleanor Roosevelt

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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

@Abraham Lincoln

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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

@Martin Luther King Jr.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

@John Milton

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

@Mahatma Gandhi

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You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

@Dr. Seuss

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

@Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You never fail until you stop trying.

@Albert Einstein

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

@Les Brown (speaker)

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

@Gautama Buddha

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

@Haruki Murakami

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He that can have patience can have what he will.

@Benjamin Franklin

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The soul is healed by being with children

@Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

@Mark Twain

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A penny saved is a penny earned.

@Benjamin Franklin

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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

@Lucy Maud Montgomery

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But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

@Charlotte Bronte

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

@Victor Hugo

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

@Maya Angelou

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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

@Arthur Conan Doyle

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We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

@Bob Ross

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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

@Max Ehrmann

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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

@Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

@Gautama Buddha

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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

@Winston Churchill

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

@Mark Twain

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Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

@Mother Teresa

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

@Henry David Thoreau

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

@Agatha Christie

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Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

@Paulo Coelho

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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

@Rumi

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

@Andrew Matthews (entomologist)

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If we live in constant fear of people's thoughts of us and avoid or fight their challenges & critiques, we won't grow.

@Lecrae

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You don't need directions - just point yourself to the top and go.

@Dwayne Johnson

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1st step: Faith. 2nd step: Action. 3rd step: Opportunities door.

@Dwayne Johnson

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1995. $7 bucks in my pocket. I knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Peanut butter & jelly. Ham & burger. Boots & asses.

@Dwayne Johnson

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You are now watching my throne. Don't let me get in my zone.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Success is yours. It aint coming for free though. You know what you gotta do.

@Dwayne Johnson

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The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. U know what to do.

@Dwayne Johnson

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"Boots To Asses", ain't just a way of life. It also means: "Would U kindly get the hell outta my way".

@Dwayne Johnson

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I did yesterday what they wouldn't. So today I can accomplish what they can't. Boots To Asses.

@Dwayne Johnson

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What keeps me grounded is always remembering where I came from. The struggles. Never wanting to go back to that.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Before every match I visualize. I pray. I dial up intensity 100%. My music hits. I put Boots to Asses.

@Dwayne Johnson

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I considered 2 other career paths besides Hollywood & WWE. The NFL & the Secret Service. Fate had other plans.

@Dwayne Johnson

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I have two favorite nicknames. "The Rock" and "The Shaved Beef".

@Dwayne Johnson

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What inspired me most to go after my dreams was change. At 24yrs old I had 7 bucks. My life had to change.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Fearless: Give it a shot today. The results may surprise you.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Opportunity: If you don't see it - create it. Once you create it: Attack it and don't ever let go.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Beasting. Hungry. I'm coming home to eat!

@Dwayne Johnson

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No one has ever drowned in sweat!

@Dwayne Johnson

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We can't ever chose the music life gives us - but we damn sure can choose how we dance.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Think back 5 yrs ago. Think of where you're at today. Think ahead 5 yrs and what you want to accomplish.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

@George S. Patton

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Get up. Get after it. Get it.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Life ain't no rehearsal and we damn sure don't get a curtain call. You only get one shot.

@Dwayne Johnson

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They tell me that theres more to life than just what I can see. I believe.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Think about what you want to accomplish today and remember: All it takes - is all you've got.

@Dwayne Johnson

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Your life doesn't get better by chance. It gets better by choice.

@Unknown

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Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

@Michael Jordan

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Don't think about it, be about it!

@Unknown

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I can't reach my full potential until i help you reach yours.

@Sean D. Tucker

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

@Vince Lombardi

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Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.

@W. B. Yeats

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The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

@Arnold Palmer

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The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

@Louis L'Amour

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The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.

@Dedeaux Field

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Carpe Diem! (Seize the day)

@Unknown

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One of the most important things you can accomplish - is just being yourself.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops.. neither should your dreams.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Be earnest in your pursuit of your full potential. And believe that you are the greatest.

@Dwayne Johnson

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You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

@Wayne Gretzky

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Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but worse to regret.

@Michael Jordan

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To understand my train of thought you have to put yourself in my position!

@T.I.

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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't...you're right.

@Henry Ford

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

@C. S. Lewis

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Just because you see a turkey flying in a tornado doesn't mean turkeys can fly.

@Dave Ramsey

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Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

@T.I.

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Call yourself a teacher.

@John Wooden

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Little things make big things happen.

@John Wooden

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Make each day your masterpiece.

@John Wooden

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Good values attract good people.

@John Wooden

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

@Maya Angelou

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These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

@Robert Frost

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

@Ken Blanchard

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

@Mother Teresa

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Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

@Marc Chagall

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