Top 202 Inspirational

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The Church Magazine Collection 2014

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Jan – 2014

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Top 202 Inspirational Quotes

Introduction

We believe that there is no other greater source of

inspiration like that found in the Bible and when you feel

confused about anything on this earth, God’s word can lift

you up. So before you first seek man, seek God.

This book is compiled without any direct scripture reference

and gives the exact words that were said by the people

quoted in each quote. We believe that these simple quotes

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have been thinking about, doing or about to stop doing. To

copy from one of the quotes, “success is a ball in your

heads, no one determines it for you and you either decide

to succeed or fail”. For us at The Church Magazine, there is

no other option but to succeed. Inspirational quotes and

motivational quotes have the power to get us through a

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So in the spirit of self motivation, here are 202 inspirational

quotes, Enjoy.

1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe,

it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

2. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –

Albert Einstein

3. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less

traveled by, and that has made all the difference. –

Robert Frost

4. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any

excuse. –Florence Nightingale

5. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne

Gretzky

6. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost

almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take

the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over

and over and over again in my life. And that is why I

succeed. –Michael Jordan

7. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is

merely tenacity. –Emelia Earhart

8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –

Babe Ruth

9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all

achievement. –W. Clement Stone

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10. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever

have is now. –Bill Cosby

11. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making

other plans. –John Lennon

12. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

13. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you

did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe

harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore,

Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

14. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react

to it. –Charles Swindoll

15. The most common way people give up their power is

by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

16. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –

Buddha

17. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The

second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

18. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

19. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

20. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone

else’s life. –Steve Jobs

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21. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince

Lombardi

22. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a

product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

23. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain

an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

24. You can never cross the ocean until you have the

courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher

Columbus

25. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but people will never

forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

26. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

27. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t,

you’re right. –Henry Ford

28. The two most important days in your life are the day

you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark

Twain

29. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann

Wolfgang von Goethe

30. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

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31. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well,

neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it

daily. –Zig Ziglar

32. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

–Anais Nin

33. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,”

then by all means paint and that voice will be

silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

34. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing,

say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

35. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will

find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

36. The only person you are destined to become is the

person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live

the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

38. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would

hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left

and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma

Bombeck

39. Few things can help an individual more than to place

responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust

him. –Booker T. Washington

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40. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those

that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

41. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore

Roosevelt

42. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of

fear. –George Addair

43. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the

light. –Plato

44. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous

shalt progress. –Maimonides

45. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you

can. –Arthur Ashe

46. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that

happiness was the key to life. When I went to school,

they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew 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

47. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese

Proverb

48. 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

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49. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –

Confucius

50. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single

moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne

Frank

51. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

–Lao Tzu

52. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya

Angelou

53. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from

your own actions. –Dalai Lama

54. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask

what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

55. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an

objective. Second, have the necessary means to

achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and

methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –

Aristotle

56. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin

Proverb

57. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in

living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

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58. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and

that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –

Marie Curie

59. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we

are living our fears. –Les Brown

60. Challenges are what make life interesting and

overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –

Joshua J. Marine

61. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –

Booker T. Washington

62. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is

not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

63. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our

imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie

Paolinetti

64. You take your life in your own hands, and what

happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica

Jong

65. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the

morning and goes to bed at night and in between

does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

66. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

–Benjamin Franklin

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67. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be

greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

68. A person who never made a mistake never tried

anything new. – Albert Einstein

69. The person who says it cannot be done should not

interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

70. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger

Staubach

71. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –

George Eliot

72. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

73. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –

Vincent van Gogh

74. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms

when his hands are empty. –Unknown

75. It is not what you do for your children, but what you

have taught them to do for themselves, that will make

them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

76. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice

as much time with them, and half as much money. –

Abigail Van Buren

77. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to

build theirs. –Farrah Gray

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78. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.

The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside

all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens

79. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –

Sir Claus Moser

80. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is

made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

81. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do

not stop. –Confucius

82. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have

more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll

never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

83. Remember that not getting what you want is

sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

84. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the

more you have. –Maya Angelou

85. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

86. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent

about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

87. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

–Teddy Roosevelt

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88. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what

you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

89. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria

Steinem

90. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do

all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

–Mae Jemison

91. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are

doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

92. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without

your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

93. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will

be. –Grandma Moses

94. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is

going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

95. When everything seems to be going against you,

remember that the airplane takes off against the wind,

not with it. –Henry Ford

96. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in

your years. –Abraham Lincoln

97. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –

Norman Vincent Peale

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98. Either write something worth reading or do something

worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

99. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m

possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

100. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –

Steve Jobs

101. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

102. Be limitless. "If you limit your actions in life to things that

nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do

much." ~Charles Dodgson

103. Dare to strive for greatness, even if it scares the crap

out of you. "We fail far more often by timidity than by

over-daring." ~David Grayson

104. "Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the

quality of what you have to offer." ~Rick Pitino

105. "Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude

than by mental capacity." ~Walter Scott

106. "Live your life and forget your age." ~Norman Vincent

Peale

107. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what

is one's destiny to do, and then do it." ~Henry Ford

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108. "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but

he who conquers that fear." ~Nelson Mandela

109. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better

by change." ~Jim Rohn

110. "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a

success at something I hate." ~George F. Burns

111. "The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try

again in a different way." ~Dale Carnegie

112. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

~Thomas Jefferson

113. "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

~Lao Tsu

114. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." ~Dr.

Robert Schuller

115. "All men who have achieved great things have been

great dreamers." ~Orison Swett Marden

116. "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but

just look at what they can do when they stick together."

~Vesta Kelly

117. Change your strategies but never surrender. "The

harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." ~Vince

Lombardi

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118. "An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body."

~General George Patton"

119. “The richest people in the world look for and build

networks, everyone else looks for work.” ~Robert

Kiyosaki

120. Big ambitions "Associate reverently, as much as you

can, with your loftiest thoughts." ~Henry David Thoreau

121. "It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our

lives. It's what we do consistently." ~Anthony Robbins

122. What are weaknesses? "The key to any game is to use

your strengths and hide your weaknesses." ~Paul

Westphal

123. "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." ~Benjamin

Mays

124. "You will never find time for anything. If you want the

time, you must make it." ~Charles Buxton

125. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be

continually fearing you will make one." ~Elbert Hubbard

126. "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to

triumph to be happy." ~Ben Stein

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127. "Of all the things I've done, the most vital is

coordinating those who work with me and aiming their

efforts at a certain goal." ~Walt Disney

128. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single

step." ~Lao-Tsu

129. "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to

become the person it takes to achieve them." ~Jim

Rohn

130. "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter

don't mind." ~Bernard M. Baruch

131. "If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success.

You're owed nothing and success will not be given to

you. It's earned." ~Robert Kiyosaki

132. "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,

you have to find the courage to live it." ~John Irving

133. Small daily decisions lead to large consequences over

time. "The way you think, the way you behave, the way

you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

~Deepak Chopra

134. Rise to the challenge of change. "Unless you change

how you are, you will always have what you've got."

~Jim Rohn

135. "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an

unbeatable combination for success." - Napoleon Hill

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136. "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help

him find it within himself." ~Galileo

137. 35. "The best place to find a helping hand is at the end

of your own arm." ~Swedish proverb

138. "Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of

choice." ~William Jennings

139. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see

yourself running with them." ~Marcus Aurelius

140. "There is no passion to be found in playing small - in

settling for a life that is less than the one you are

capable of living." ~Mandela

141. "Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance

is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is

illness. It all stems from ignorance." ~Jim Rohn

142. "Always seek out the seed of triumph in every

adversity." ~Og Mandino

143. "There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of

doing more than he thinks he can.“ ~Henry Ford

144. "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or

anything else. It will spread into your work and into your

life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and

you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

~Bruce Lee

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145. "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." ~Benjamin

Mays

146. "All achievements, all earned riches, have their

beginning in an idea." ~Napoleon Hill

147. "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, & without it nothing

great was ever achieved." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

148. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life

by what we give." ~Winston Churchill

149. "Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them

wisely. " ~Thomas P. Murphy

150. Live with confidence. "The greatest mistake you can

make in life is to be continually fearing you will make

one." ~Elbert Hubbard

151. "Profits are better than wages" ~Jim Rohn

152. "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas

as in escaping from old ones." ~John Maynard Keynes

153. "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they

can." ~Richard Bach

154. "Formula for success: under promise and over deliver."

~Tom Peters

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155. Imagine a greater future than your past and take

action to make it happen. "Live out of your

imagination, not your history." ~Stephen Covey

156. Failure is better than being too afraid to try. "Yes, I

sometimes fail, but at least I'm willing to experiment."

~Bono

157. "Your vision will become clear only when you look into

your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks

inside, awakens." ~Carl Jung

158. "If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and

enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind." ~Norman

Vincent Peale

159. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease

worrying about things which are beyond the power or

our will." ~Epictetus

160. "All happiness depends on courage and work."

~Honore De Balzac

161. "Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance

is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is

illness. It all stems from ignorance." ~Jim Rohn

162. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within

yourself in your way of thinking." ~Marcus Aurelius

163. "Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose

gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order

to conquer it." ~Alexandre Dumas

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164. "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in

having few wants." ~Epictetus

165. "Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a

Jaguar than on a bus." ~Francois Sagan

166. "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of

circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of

attitudes." ~Hugh Downs

167. "You have everything you need for complete peace

and total happiness right now." ~Wayne W. Dyer

168. "You can’t buy happiness." ~Kurt Cobain

169. "Of all the means to insure happiness through the whole

life, by far the most important is the acquisition of

friends." ~Epicurus

170. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." ~Oprah Winfrey

171. "Money can’t buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress

reliever." ~Besa Kosova

172. "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer

someone else up." ~Mark Twain

173. "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of

your thoughts." ~Marcus Aurelius

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174. "So we shall let the reader answer this question for

himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved

the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed

securely on shore and merely existed?" ~Hunter S.

Thompson

175. Bold people get paid, get laid, and get life made in the

shade. "Fortune and love befriend the bold." ~Ovid

176. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream

deep, for every dream precedes the goal." ~Pamela

Vaull Starr

177. "There is no happiness except in the realization that we

have accomplished something." ~Henry Ford

178. "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." ~Robert Byrne

179. "The first wealth is health." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

180. "Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Discover." ~Mark Twain

181. "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I

am not." ~Kurt Cobain

182. "Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." ~Robert

Cody

183. When you say “yes” to others, make sure you are not

saying “no” to yourself. ~Paulo Coehlo

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184. "If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk." ~Paulo

Coelho

185. "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute

experience." ~Paulo Coelho

186. "Stop being who you were and become who you are."

~Paulo Coelho

187. "Reaching your full potential involves choice. How

exactly you choose to excel is up to you." ~Brian

Colbert

188. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising

every time we fall." ~Confucius

189. "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man

perfected without trials." ~Confucius

190. "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds

hope. Hope breeds peace." ~Confucius

191. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good

night's sleep." ~E. Joseph Cossman

192. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

~E.E. Cummings

193. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo da

Vinci

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194. "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to

stern resolve. He who is fixed on a star does not change

his mind." ~da Vinci

195. "If you have time to whine and complain about

something then you have the time to do something

about it." ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

196. "Embrace your weirdness." ~Cara Delevingne

197. "It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is

to use it well." ~Rene Descartes

198. "We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators

of circumstance." ~Benjamin Disraeli

199. "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the

ages are perpetuated by quotations." ~Benjamin

Disraeli

200. "If you focus on results, you will never change. If you

focus on change, you will get results." ~Jack Dixon

201. "Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn." ~Drake

202. "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

~Peter F. Drucker

We hope these quotes inspire you to live an awesome life!

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