Inspirational Quotes and Poems Collected from the WA challenge

byInternetgranny

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First of all a big thank you to Kyle for creating this challenge. Judging by all the comments, this challenge was greatly enjoyed and appreciated by all who took part.

As Robert (boomergp09) says, 'Just reading the quotes by everyone else, we all can gain some insight, inspiration and maybe even gain a new favorite. A win-win all around.'

And, in Andre's (apache1) words, 'Those who read this challenge will come out a better person as a result.'

As Kyle would say, 'So, without further ado, here are the quotes:

I will start with Kyle's quote, that got the whole challenge going:

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

-Chinese proverb

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
~Maya Angelou

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ~Nelson Mandela

“Fall seven times, stand up eight."

-Japanese proverb

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it changed into a butterfly".

-Chuang Tzu (Chinese philosopher 2000 years ago)

"Whatever you can conceive, and believe, you can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change."
-Dr Wayne Dyer

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

-Dolly Parton

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

~ Brian Tracy

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

-Albert Einstein

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

-Albert Einstein

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

-Albert Einstein

Logic can take you from point A to point B,

imagination can take you anywhere.

-Albert Einstein

"The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary."

-Vidal Sassoon

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

-Albert Schweitzer

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly to get started."

-Brian Tracy

"Never give up! Never give up! Never give up!"

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Accept the world as it is. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it."

-Lao Tzu

"The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them."

-Ernest Hemingway

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

– Winston Churchill

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

-Henry Ford

"When the wind of change blows, some build walls while others build windmills."

-Chinese proverb

"Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don’t will find an excuse.”

-Leo Aquila

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better."

-Jim Rohn

"We are each the author of our own lives."

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

"Make a path in life so others can follow."

-Unknown

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

– Winston Churchill

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

-Sean Patrick Flanery

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

-Rabindranath Tagore

"Do not focus on the money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for many... money will follow."

-Manoj Arora

"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."

- Warren Buffett

"Everything rises and everything falls on leadership."

~ John C. Maxwell.

" Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take. "

-Angela N. Blount

"The world belongs to those who do not let life grind them down."

-Charles Bukowski

"What brings people together is not the community of opinions, but the kinship of minds."

-Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

-Marcel Proust

"I am no longer accepting the things that I can not change. I am changing the things that I can not accept."

-Angela Y. Davis

"Life is short, live it to the fullest."

-Unknown, often attributed to Aristotle

"Someday is not a day in the week."

- Sam Horn

"Can't throw our hands up because it's just too hard. We have to keep moving."

- Police Officer (DC Sniper Case)

"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."

Col. Davy Crockett

"It doesn't Fcking Matter: Do the Reps!"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger*

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

-African Proverb

"Do not worry about to morrow, because then you ruin your today."

-similar to a quote from the Bible which says, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

-Matthew 6:34

"Never give up! Obstacles are opportunities to grow."

-Unknown

"Move forward imperfectly."

-Jon Acuff

"‘A lazy man has to work twice as hard."

-Proverb

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

-attributed to several wise individuals, including Buddha and Lao Tzu

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

- Eckhart Tolle

"True Friends never count things they do for each other.
They just count on each other."

-WA member 7Visions

"Good timber does not grow with ease:

the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."

-Douglas Malloch

"Practice makes progress."

-Proverb

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

- popularized by W.H, Murray in his book "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition" (1951), who attributed the idea to Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

"A breakthrough is a moment in time when what you thought was impossible suddenly becomes possible."

-Tony Robbins

“Your Personal Brand is what people say about you when you leave the room - what they feel and remember about you as an individual.”

-attributed to Jeff Bezos

"I can do all things through Christ who is my strength."

-Philippians 4:13 of the Bible

"As apples of gold in silver carvings is a word spoken at the right time."

Proverbs 25:11 from the Bible

"Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own, that's got his own."

-Billie Holiday

"One step at the time..."

-Proverb

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"

-Proverb

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

-attributed to Henry Ford

"Change Your Story, Change Your Life."

-Unknown

"Don't say 'I am having a bad day'.

Say: 'I am having a character building day.'!"

-Les Brown

"Bust your butt in the beginning, and don't give up because better days are coming."

-Unknown

"There are two times in your life: Right now, and too late."

-Unknown

"Laziness kills ambition.
Anger kills wisdom.
Fear kills dreams.
Jealousy kills peace.

Now, read that right to left."

-Unknown

"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

when the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

when the funds are low and the debts are high,

and you want to smile but you have to sigh,

when care is pressing you down a bit,

rest, if you must, but don't quit"

- Edger A. Guest

The heights by great men reached and kept,

were not attained by sudden flight,

but they, while their companions slept,

were toiling upwards in the night.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

from "The Road Less Traveled" by Robert Frost

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your Master, If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son.