Finding Motivation and Inspiration. Favorite Quotes and Words I Live By.

Today, I wanted to share something with you thats been very important to me:

..Words I ACTIVELY live by..

This is my very personal stash of motivation. A place I regularly turn to find some genuine inspiration.
These are quotes that I have collected over many years:
Scrambling to write them down whenever I hear something that touches me. Frantically jotting what words I can remember (often illegibly) onto some crumpled up napkin.. eventually shoved into a pocket or cupholder.. only to later find its way into the washing machine or mistaken for a piece of trash… These are the quotes that have made it to a computer. (I'm still working on properly crediting the original authors).

...I hope you are able to find some of the same motivation... 

People will forget what you said and forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelo 

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right- Henry Ford

If you have to tell people you are, then you aren't

Use all your talents.  The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those that sang best

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first

Experience is something you don't get until after you need it

Confidence is silent insecurities are loud

Know; that you wouldn't have a desire to do something if you didn't have the ability to fulfill it. 

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will 

The only people whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you -John E Southard

True humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less.― C.S. Lewis

Information is not knowledge - Einstein 

Wisdom is not the product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it – Albert Einstein

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all – Aristotle

It takes courage to open doors and wisdom to close them

Don't live the same year 75 times and call that a life

Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there  

You are NOT the sum of all your worst decisions 

You were born an original.  Don't die a copy 

Sometimes it's best to wear slippers, instead of trying to carpet the world 

If you use others as a vehicle to go through life, you cannot possibly go faster or further than you can convince them to take you

Purpose, like happiness, isn't static. It can be equally as fleeting. 

Sometimes you will never know the value of moment until it becomes a memory.

How you do the small things is how you do everything 

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.

Serenity is not freedom from the storm. Serenity is finding peace amidst the storm. 

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings – Salvador Dali

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different - Coco Chanel

You can never be overdressed or over educated – Oscar Wilde

Be stubborn about your goals and be flexible with your methods

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did do

A year from now you may wish you had started today

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Don't wish it were easier.  Wish you were better 

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong the amount of work is the same - Carlos castenada 

A negative mind will never give you a positive life

Do what is right not what is easy

Be careful with your words once they are said they can only be forgiven not forgotten

Try being informed instead of just opinionated

Never argue with a fool onlookers may not be able to tell the difference – Mark Twain

I'm thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength-Alex Elle

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the fighters. But most of all surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it in yourself

Let your faith be bigger than your fear

Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference – Robert Frost

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve – Napoleon house

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take – Wayne Gretzky

Babe Ruth had the most strikeouts AND the most homeruns

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of it's constant hunger for whatever it is that it wants. The way it stops and starts -Edgar Allan Poe 

Do no harm (but take no shit)

When I was five years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they ask me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life – John Lennon

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard – Winnie the Pooh

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life – JK Rowling

When looking at a dandelion; some people see a weed, some see a wish

Embrace the glorious mess that you are – Elizabeth Gilbert

Progress NOT perfection

The word listen contains the same letters of the word silent – Alfred Brendel

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die – Juliette Lewis

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met

Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion – Muhamed Ali

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old then you don't understand it yourself – Albert Einstein

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