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If you find yourself in a little mid-week or mid-day slump, take a few moments to re-energize yourself with these inspiring quotes from some of the world’s greatest thinkers. Sometimes, all it takes is a little reminder to boost your spirits and refocus your day.

Quotes Thoughts And Prayers

'Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.'

-- Carlos Castaneda

'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

'You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.'

-- Dr. Seuss

'Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.'

-- Steve Jobs

'Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.'

-- Seth Godin

'The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.'

Sending Good Thoughts Quotes

-- Lily Tomlin

'A man should never neglect his family for business.'

-- Walt Disney

'Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.'

Thought Quotes And Sayings

-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

'Someone once told me that 'time' is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again.'

-- Jean-Luc Picard

'It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.'

-- Charles Darwin

'Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.'

Quotes Thoughts Become Words

-- Thomas Edison

'You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.'

-- Wayne Gretzky

'Do or do not. There is no try.'

-- Yoda

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'Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.'

-- Chinese Proverb

'Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.'

-- Napoleon Hill

'You are not your resume, you are your work.'

-- Seth Godin

'Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.'

-- Theodore Roosevelt

'Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.'

-- Will Rogers

'Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.'

-- Babe Ruth

'If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.'

-- Ray Kroc

'When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.'

-- Harley Davidson

'A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.'

-- Alistair Cook

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Quotes Thoughts Become Beliefs

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

-- Jim Rohn

'Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.'

-- Thomas Jefferson

'I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

'People inspire you or they drain you -- pick them wisely.'

-- Hans F. Hansen

'The Pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.'

-- John Maxwell

'Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!'

-- Henry Ford

Quotes Thoughts Of The Day

'When you change your thoughts, you change your world.'

-- Norman Vincent Peale

'A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.'

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Positive Thought Quotes

'There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.'

-- Denis Waitley

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Great quotes can be inspirational and motivational. You can use quotes to help guide your decisions in life, work and love. Here are 50 of the best inspirational quotes to motivate you:

1. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! -- Audrey Hepburn
2. 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
3. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -- Henry Ford
4. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
5. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. -- Charles Swindoll
6. 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
7. None of us is as smart as all of us. -- Ken Blanchard
8. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -- Jimmy Dean
9. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -- Theodore Roosevelt
10. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -- Les Brown
12. Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much. -- Helen Keller
13. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -- Napoleon Hill
14. 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
15. 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
16. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. -- Albert Einstein
17. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -- Stephen Covey
18. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. --Henry Ford
19. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -- Alice Walker
20. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -- Amelia Earhart
21. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. -- Andrew Carnegie
22. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
23. The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. -- Zig Ziglar
24. Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
25. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
26. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James
27. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. -- Farrah Gray
28. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. -- Dalai Lama
29. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -- Maya Angelou
30. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -- Rosa Parks
31. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. -- Vincent van Gogh
32. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -- Unknown
33. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
34. 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
35. 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
36. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. -- Booker T. Washington
37. 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
38. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. -- Will Rogers
39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. -- Ancient Indian Proverb
40. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” -- Sydney Harris
41. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. -- Confucius
42. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
43. 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
44. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -- Ronald Reagan
46. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair
47. 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
48. Nothing will work unless you do. —Maya Angelou
49. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. —Mother Teresa
50. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. —Plutarch

A version of this article first appeared at TalentSmart.com.

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