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We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Related topics: Motivational Inspirational Choice Attitude Strength

May you taste, smell, and touch
your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart

 

Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards

Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't dream it, be it.
- the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You are the Michelangelo of your own life.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts.
- Joe Vitale

May today be your day to dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie

Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Dream with Powerful Intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone
and into your appreciation zone.
- Martha Beck

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

We have a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day.
- Charles Swindoll

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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