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Inspirational Quotes

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·        If you can dream it, you can do it

 

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.

If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.

If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.

If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.

If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.

If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.

If children live with acceptance, they learn love

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance."-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching"-Aurora Greenway

"Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."-Voltaire

"In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet"-Alice Abrams

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."-Anonymous

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."-Anonymous

"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak"-Indian Proverb

"I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance"-George Balanchine

"I should not believe in a God who does not dance."-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals."- Charles Baudelaire

"Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order."- Samuel Beckett

"A dance is a measured pace,
as a verse is a measured speech."-Francis Bacon

"We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive…and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."-D.H.Lawrence

"The dance:
a minimum of explanation,
a minimum of anecdotes,
and a maximum of sensations" -Maurice Béjart

"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing"-James Brown

"Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion."-Scott Nilsson

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."- Agnes de Mille

"Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done."-Jerome Robbins

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music."-George Carlin

"Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done."-Jerome Robbins

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music."-George Carlin

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."-Martha Graham

"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances."-Maya Angelou

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words."-Ruth St. Denis

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."-George Bernard Shaw

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."-Havelock Ellis

·        If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

  • Anthony Robbins

 

  • "Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past." -Deepak Chopra

 

  • "Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it." -Anna Robertson Brown

 

  • "To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly." -Henri Bergson

 

  • Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you" - John Wooden

 

  • You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills

 

  • "Commitment is the key to unlocking the door to your dreams! You must commit to your goals." -Tracy Lyn Moland

 

·        "The first step to getting the things that you want out of life: Decide what you want." -Ben Stein

 

·        "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." -Hannah Arendt

 

·        "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." -Isaac Newton

  • "Action does not always lead to happiness, but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli

 

·        "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

·        Aristotle

 

·        "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

-          John Wooden

 

  • "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."--Jim Rohn

 

  • "The future depends on what we do in the present." -Mahatma Gandhi

 

  • "I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world for mankind....I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living, even after my death!" -Anne Frank

 

·        "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

·        "For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope
Look well, therefore to this day."
-Sir William Osler

 

  • "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." –Lyndon B. Johnson

 

·        "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

 

·        "Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can." -John Wesley

 

  • When angry count to 10 before you speak,
  • If very angry cont to 100
  • Thomas Jefferson

 

·        "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

·        Thomas Edison

 

·        "It's your opportunity. It's your life. It's your decision."

 

·        On the day you were born, the world grew by one
life with big purpose and much to be done.
Look in the mirror. Love what you see.
Stand tall. Smile big. Shout “Hooray for Me!”

~ Marianne Richmond, Hooray for You

 

·        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
You are they person who'll decide where to go.

~ Dr. Seuss

 

·        Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
~ Dr. George W. Crane

 

·        Shoot for the moon. Even if you don’t get there, you will be among the stars.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

·        Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

·        " When life knocks you to your knees
Well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it?"
--- Ethel Barrymore

·        " God never gives you anything you can't handle."

 

·        " Always keep a smile on your face
Because no one wants to approach a person who looks angry."
--- Diane Kirk –

 

·        " It's not what you achieve in life...It's how you get there that counts."
Author Unknown ---

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·        Regard
Every
Soul
Purely
Embracing
Compassionate
Thoughts
Joli Anderson ---

 

·        Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." -Robert Fulghum

 

·        "Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone."

·        -Arab proverb

 

  • Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
    Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
    John C. Geikie

 

  • If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
    Lord Chesterfield

 

  • Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
    Aristotle

 

  • He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.
    Joseph Joubert

 

  • When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

  • If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them

Randy Rind

 

  • Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten.

 

  • No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.

Chalmers

 

  • Never waste a minute thinking of anyone you don’t like.

Eisenhower

 

  • The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

 

  • Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

 

  • It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

 

  • You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have.

Jim Rohn

 

  • Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

 

  • What you are is God’s gift to you. What you do with yourself is your gift to God.

Author Unknown

 

  • Because life is a gift, all of us are gifted.

Noah benShea

 

  • Make each day your masterpiece.

John Wooden

 

  • "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."

 

  • "A day without laughter is a day wasted."

    -Charlie Chaplin

 


  • It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

 

  • "Every child is born a genius."
    Richard Buckminster Fuller

 

·        The first sign of maturity is

·        the discovery that the volume knob also turns to left
“Smile” Zingers

 

  • "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." (English Proverb)

 

  • "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."  (Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne)

 

  • There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." (Bryant H. McGill)

 

  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
    -- Reinhold Niebuhr

 

  • Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.
    -- Danny Kaye

 

·        "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

-          Helen Keller

 

  • Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown

 

  • A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
    -- Isadora James

 

  • A true sister is a friend who listens with her heart.
    -- Author Unknown

 

  • "Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends."
    Author Uknown
  • "The love of a family is life's greatest blessing."
    Author Unknown

 

  • "The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

 

  • Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship." Margaret Mead

 

  • The family that prays together stays together." Al Scalpone

 

  • You don't choose your family.
    They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." Desmond Tutu

 

  • "A happy family is but an earlier heaven."John Bowring

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."

, Colonel Potter

 

  • "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children

is a few minutes of their time each day."

M. Grundler

 

  • "In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." Eva Burrows

 

  • Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it." James H. Bossard

 

 

  • The love of a family is life's greatest blessing."

  • "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
    - Anthony Brandt

 

  • “You have within you an inner guidance that always knows what you need to do. Trusting this inner guidance will set you free and help you to move the obstacles that you once considered to be mountains.”  Jennifer McLeod

 

  • It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love." John Lennon

 

  • "Family and Friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches."
    Wanda Hope Carter,

 

  • "Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.
    Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing."  Jim Rohn

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