Nancy's Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Only a brave woman would have the courage to befriend a woman who is braver than she is.  Veronique Vienne from the book “The Art of Being a Woman”

Acceptance of the Past + Trust of the Future = Love in the Present

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.  Anais Nin

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.- John Wooden

To thine own self be true…William Shakespeare

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung….Walt Whitman

When you change the way You look at things, the things You look at change.  ~Dr. Wayne Dyer

Old feelings never die, they just get buried alive

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. Ultimately, we are in charge of our attitudes.

Addiction is a disease of feelings

If your passion is your profession, you’ll never work a day in your life.

 Energy flows where attention goes

 Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love – Mother Teresa

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. 

 If you listen to the whispers you don’t have to hear the screams.

Tell me I’ll forget, show me and I’ll remember, involve me and I’ll understand.

Being successful in life is not what really matters. Being significant in life is really the core root of what matters.

When you shift your perception that’s a Miracle!

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself. T. S. Eliot

Faith is jumping off a building and then creating your own wings. 

 Measure of a man is not the road he travels but the choices he makes along the way.

A Mother knows she’s a success when she turns and looks at her son or daughter and they turned out better than she did. 

Because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. C.S. Lewis

Live Simply so others may Simply Live. Gandhi

The eyes sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.  Robertson Davies

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

The real voyager of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.  Marcel Proust

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming…”Wow! What a Ride!”"

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.  Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

But eyes are blind you have to look with the heart.  Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. Author Unknown

Man becomes what he thinks about.

The beautiful pearl is born from suffering and death.

In the winds of change we find out true direction.

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

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my own ship. Louisa May Alcott

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.  Helen Keller

Winners make things happen, Losers let things happen.

Without mistakes there is no forgiveness and without forgiveness there is no love!

Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.~ Rita Golden Gelman

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