I think we have all found ourselves in times where we needed a dose of encouragement in our life. Weather you need strength to get through a tough time, motivation to start something you know you need to do or just pleasant thoughts to lift your spirit, we've all been there. I hope you enjoy these motivational quotes and that at least one will touch your spirit and lift you where you want to go.
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens to us, not by what life brings to us, but what attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of possitive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a Catalyst...a spark that creates extraordinary results."
Anonymous
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
"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
"Don't dig your grave with your own fork."
English Proverb
"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms carry out your plan."
Paul Mayer
"One fourth of what we eat is to keep us healthy. Three fourths of what we eat is to keep our doctors healthy."
Unknown
"Failure is success if we learn from it."
Malcolm S. Forbes
"You measure the size of your accomplishments by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach them."
Booker T. Washington
"Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal."
Unknown
"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like."
Mike Gafka
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit."
Gordon Parks
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Ivern Ball
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being started."
Buddha
"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."
Anonymous
"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine our food."
Hippocrates
"Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness."
Earl of Derby
"True happiness comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united."
Alexander von Humboldt