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Very Powerful Quotes
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” —Thomas Carlyle
“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” —Lao Tzu
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” —Ambrose Redmoon
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” —Paulo Coelho
“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” – Brian Tracy
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”― William James
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Grief and resilience live together.” —Michelle Obama, Becoming
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas A. Edison
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” – Paulo Coelho
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford
“Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” – Macklemore
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”— Maya Angelou
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”― Henry David Thoreau
“Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” —Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” —Robert F. Kennedy
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” —Gever Tulley
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” —Veronica Roth
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.” —Alain de Botton
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” —Jean de la Bruyere
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” —Edmund Hillary
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”- Brian Tracy
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”― William James
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
“A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” – Thomas Edison
“When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…” – J.A. Tran
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
“Belief creates the actual fact.” — William James32 Unbreakable Laws of Money and Success Banner 2
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” —Winston Churchill
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” —Isabel Allende
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.” —Michael Jordan
“Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” – Wayne Dyer
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do.” – Brian Tracy
“Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
“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.
“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” —Mark Nepo
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” –Vince Lombardi
“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” —Rocky Balboa
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” —Maya Angelou
“Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…”― Nitya Prakash
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -William James
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Rob Siltanen
“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
“Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” – Brian Tracy
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” —Lou Holtz
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”― Thomas Edison
“You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ― Winston Churchill
“The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy
“It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”— Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
“For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
“It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.” – Sue Hadfield
“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…” – Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
“The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” —Bob Marley
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”― Robert Frost
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” -Zig Ziglar
“To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage.” – Confucius.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”- Brian Tracy
“Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.” – G K Chesterton
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” Henry Link
“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
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” —J.R.R. Tolkein, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”― Oprah Winfrey
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” – Michelle Obama
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” —J.K. Rowling
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” Zig Ziglar
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”– Helen Keller
“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!”- Cinderella
“You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.”— Duchess Meghan
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”― Allen Saunders
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —Margaret Thatcher
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” —Greg Kincaid
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
“We will either find a way, or make one.” —Anibal Barca
“Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Alice, Alice In Wonderland
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
“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
“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”— Nicole Kidman
“Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!”― Sanjo Jendayi
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” —J.K. Rowling
“With a smile and a song, life is just like a bright sunny day. Your cares fade away.” – Snow White
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” —Muhammad Ali
“What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” —Meryl Streep
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” – Brian Tracy
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” —Peter Marshall
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” —Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities.” -Charles Dickens
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”- Brian Tracy
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”― Albert Einstein
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” —Thomas A. Edison
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” – Dr. Henry Link
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”— Vince Lombardi
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Ghandi
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” – Brian Tracy
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela
“Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?” – Brian Tracy
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” —Nelson Mandela
“Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” – Brian Tracy
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”― Winston Churchill
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”― Marilyn Monroe
“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” —Demi Lovato
“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson
“Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
“It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” — Queen Elizabeth II
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.” – Brian Tracy
“Self-doubt kills talent.” Edie McClurg
“We become what we think about” – Earl Nightingale
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” —Charles Dickens
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You get what you give.” – Jennifer Lopez
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai.
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah Winfrey
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”― Thomas A. Edison
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” -Dale Carnegie
“Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“It hurt because it mattered.” – John Green
“Change the world by being yourself.” – Amy Poehler
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”- George Addair
“War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.” — Marvin Gaye
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”- Mahatma Ghandi
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” – Brian Tracy
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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