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34 All-Time Favorite Motivational Quotes Submitted by ReadersIn my recent 25 Top Motivational Quotes, I provided Intense Experience newsletter subscribers with 25 of my all-time favorite motivational quotes. I also asked readers to send me one or two of their favorite motivational quotes ... and WOW did I receive a lot of responses! WOW also to the quality of responses ... so many inspirational "little nudges in the side that keep us focused on what really matters." SOOOO MANY, in fact, that I can't possibly publish all of them here yet. So what I will be doing is just periodically publishing them individually or in groups like this below over time. So if you submitted one or more and don't see it below, keep watching for future newsletters. And thanks to everyone for sharing their favorite motivational quotes! It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices? - Beverly Adamo Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what. - Spryte Loriano (submitted by Beverly Adamo) My main goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am. - Author Unknown (submitted by Kathy Anderson, Florissant, MO) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Rabbi Julius Gordon People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. - Thich Nhat Hanh (submitted by Tara McClintick) Too may people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes(submitted by Steve) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel No seed ever sees the flower. – Zen Saying Happiness? It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson (submitted by Bobbie ) The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee (submitted by Kandy Kremnetz) Hindsight is an exact science. - Guy Bellamy (submitted by Penny) The elephant strides at its own gait -- but the dogs do trail behind and bark. - Kabir (submitted by Teresa Molinaro) We are where we should be, doing what we should be doing, otherwise we would be somewhere else doing something else. -Richard Stine (submitted by Kim Gebron) The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. - John Milton We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. – Epictetus A great many people think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - David Bohm (submitted by Valter Prahad) A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare (submitted by Sarah Gaulden) You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. - Dennis Waitley (submitted by Jennifer) When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Edward Teller (submitted by Barb Schenk) I always win. Because I come out of every situation still whole, still new, and still capable of moving forward. Every experience of my life moves me on to my next experience. All my experiences teach me wisdom, give me courage, and set me free to go on living. - Kenny Shultz (submitted by Sherri Fransen) Some days you’re the dog some day you’re the hydrant. – Unknown (submitted by Justin Doyle) The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. - Frank Lloyd Wright (submitted by Sarah) How people treat you is their Karma. How you respond is yours. -Wayne Dyer (submitted by Itala) Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford (submitted by Tom Finn, Woodbridge, IA) When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimmi Hendrix (submitted by Julie Glenn) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle (submitted by Kate) If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. - William Walton Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.- Stephen Covey All sin lies in harming others unnecessarily; all other "sin" is invented nonsense. - Robert Heinlein Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. - Goethe Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. - Mother Teresa You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy, comic strip character created by Tom Wilson (submitted by Parm Singh)
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