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23 Inspirational Quotes To Live By

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“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do”
- John Wooden

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
- Christopher Columbus

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
- Confucius

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed”
- Henrik Ibsen

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”
- J.K. Rowling

“If you are going through hell, keep going”
- Winston Churchill

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present”
- B. Olatunji

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all”
- Oscar Wilde

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.”
- Joan Baez

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us”
- Helen Keller

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”
- Albert Einstein

“If you want to be happy, be”
- Leo Tolstoy

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest”
- Mark Twain

“We must be the change we want to see”
- Gandhi

“The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity”
- Ulysses S. Grant

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake”
- M.B. Ray

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again”
- Etienne de Grellet

“This above all: To your own self, be true”
- William Shakespeare

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”
- E.E. Cummings

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on”
- Robert Frost

“Imagine”
- John Lennon

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23 Responses to “23 Inspirational Quotes To Live By”

  1. Enjoyed reading your inspirational quotes. Submitted a review to SU for you so others can enjoy them too. Reading inspirational material always is an upper. Thanks.

  2. renzze says:

    love your quotes!

  3. Fantastic quotes to help change your life.

  4. Thanks Cindy & Ifg!

    Ashley, you’re welcome… happy upcoming birthday to your dogs!

  5. Famous quotes, sometimes these short phrases make a think a lot. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all” this one shook me up. How can someone be that courageous enough to first realize it and then say it.

  6. They can because they know who they are (identity) and they are not afraid of being themselves nor what other people think.

  7. jasmineann says:

    Great quotes to relect upon. Thank you for sharing :) Will be adding to SU.

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  9. Gongyi says:

    Great video! Enjoy reading the Inspirational Quotes. Will be adding the video to my blog to share with others…

  10. noorgedan says:

    I enjoy reading the quotes… I feel like I am injecting vitamins and extra power to my body whenever I read the quotes.

  11. nina bonifacio says:

    its really great to read the inspirational quotes.

    Bring it on….more aspiring quotes..

  12. claire says:

    this is an eye opener. will share this to all my friends.

  13. LifeLover says:

    wow! i love quotes- quotes are just soo nice

  14. farah says:

    inspirational quotes,i enjoyed,nd nw my day start with all this encourageous quotes.i will share these with my friends nd family, farh

  15. GABRIEL says:

    I ALWAYS ENJOY UR MAIL. PLS I NEED MORE OF THOSE QUOTES COS IT BOOST MY MIND TO DO WHAT I THINK I CAN DO. THANKS

  16. Roberto says:

    I love quotes and I always post one on my MSN; actually, I´ve posted some of these. Seeing them here has reinforced my love for them.

  17. bewaji k. c says:

    thanks a lot. my life is always better with your daily mail…God bless you

  18. a-riz says:

    i love these quotes. they helped a lot with English. 10 famous to live by quotes in a booklet, with front cover, back cover, and biography.

  19. a-riz says:

    i love all of the quotes and so does Bria.

  20. Brandy says:

    I need a really deep quote.

  21. angie says:

    ispirational qoutes will motivates your personality

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