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FAMOUS QUOTES

These famous quotes are presented to you to inspire and motivate you towards peace and happiness.

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward

"Nothing attracts success like success." - John Kehoe

 

We must have faith in ourselves and what we can accomplish.
Then we can pass on this feeling of empowerment, enriching our lives and the lives of others as well.

 

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." - Federico Fellini

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." - Lord Chesterfield

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world." - John Burroughs

 

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. - Dale Carnegie

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they
want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

 

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil A. Armstrong

"Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish." - Ovid

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash

"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."
- Mary Cassatt

Don't look at the past with anger, nor the future with fear, only around in awareness.

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm." - Edward George Bulwar-Lytton

"When one door is shut, another opens." - Miguel De Cervantes

"One of the things I learned the hard way was it does not pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and
making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." - Lucille Ball

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can;
and mean to keep doing so until the end.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said
against me won't amount to anything.
If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels
swearing I was right would make no difference."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Live each day as if your life had just begun."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
- Charles F. Kettering

FOOTPRINTS
One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand:
one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life ,
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it:
"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

The Lord replied:
"My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."
Written in 1964 by Margaret Fishback.