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Love And Inspiration Quotes About Strength

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown

Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Unknown

Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst

Hope is the light that shines in the darkness, revealing that which is hidden, giving us the courage to keep going.
Unknown

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
French Proverb

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Kindness

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Kindness is the foundation of a meaningful life.
Dalai Lama XIV

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in love and happiness.
Unknown

Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Unknown

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Self-Love

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush

Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
Unknown

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
Bryant McGill

You are worthy of love and respect. You deserve to be happy and to live a life that lights you up.
Unknown

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Dreams

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Henry David Thoreau

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Unity

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
Woodrow Wilson

The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people.
Unknown

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.
Catherine Pulsifer

We are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya Angelou

We are all in this together and we are going to get through this together.
Mike DeWine

We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other.
Vala Afshar

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.
Solomon Ortiz

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Life

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Family

The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.
Unknown

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden

Family is the anchor that holds us through life's storms.
Unknown

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family is not just an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Success

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not about being the best. It's about always getting better.
Behdad Sami

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Love And Inspiration Quotes About Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a habit that can be learned.
Unknown

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

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