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100 Quotes that Inspire Me

1. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2. I will never leave you nor forsake you.
3. I Am the way.
4. Preach it with your mouth, then live it with your life.
   
5. Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
6. We navigate our whole lives using words. Change and improve the words and I believe we can change and improve life.
7. The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
8. Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
9. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
10. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
11. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
12. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
13. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
14. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
15. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
16. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
17. Find a need and fill it.  Find a hurt and heal it.
18. Inspiration comes to us slowly and quiety...prime it with a little solitude.
19. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a
    person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring
    them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that
    a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping,
    and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
20. Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.
21. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
22. It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
23. “You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.” --source unknown
24. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -- Hebrews 12:1-2
25. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. -- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
26. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
27. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
28. I want to do something so big that everyone will know that God did it! - Lester Roloff
29. I'm thankful that I believe in God. I'm even more thankful that He believes in me.
30. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. -- Proverbs 3:1-7
31. "We each have a different purpose, and whatever mine is, whatever God puts in my lap, I plan to do it well." -- Rachel Smith, July 7, 2009
32. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. -Noah Levine
33. "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E. Joseph Crossman
34. If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it. --Edgar Watson Howe

35. Be Strong -- by Maltbie Babcock
    
    Be strong!
    We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
    We have hard work to do, and loads to lift;
    Shun not the struggle--face it; 'tis God's gift.
    
    Be strong!
    Say not, "The days are evil. Who's to blame?"
    And fold the hands and acquiesce--oh shame!
    Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name.
    
    Be strong!
    It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
    How hard the battle goes, the day how long;
    Faint not--fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

36. "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40
37. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou
38. Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up. -Author Unknown
39. By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished. -James Allen
40. The foundation of gratitude is the expectation of nothing. -Author Unknown
41. Occasionally God will allow stress into our lives to further develop our faith and our walk with Him. -Pastor Paul Chappel
42. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. -Author Unknown
43. Work as hard as you can to make all the money you can and spend as little as you can in order to give away all that you can. -John Wesley
44. The harder the course, the more rewarding the triumph. -Author Unknown
45. Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to failure. -Author Unknown
46. Dream no small dreams, for they stir not the hearts of men. -Author Unknown
47. Have faith in God means to reckon on God’s faith to you. All my life has been so fickle. Sometimes I could trust, sometimes I could not, but when I could not trust then I reckoned that God would be faithful. -Hudson Taylor
48. The longer I live, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I enquire, the less I seem to know. Walk humbly. That is enough. -John Adams
49. When faith is most difficult, it is most necessary. -Dr. John Goetsch
50. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. -Victor Hugo
51. The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. -Samuel Chadwick
52. There are some things in life that are difficult to attribute solely to God, because you see man's hands so involved in it. Then there are some things that only God can be given credit for, because no man came anywhere near it. -Myself
53. "When you have a lot of irons in the fire in ministry, you have more options for helping people with their spiritual wrinkles." - D.J. Moore
54. "This is not a show and I am not ashamed" -Jake Lockmiller
55. I'm a passionate person. That's how I roll. -Myself
56. Surprise Me. -Terry Esau
    
57. We are all capable if we have faith and passion. -Yanni
58. Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Harold Whitman
59. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
60. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
61. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. -Bertrand Russell
62. “A true friend stabs you in the front” – Oscar Wilde
63. Are you looking for blame -- or solutions? - Doris Krebs
64. "But he giveth more grace."  James 4:6
65. Be the surprise.
    
66. When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good. - Matthew Kelly
67. Grow as a person and your world grows with you.
68. The master in the art of living
    draws no sharp distinction between
    his labor and his leisure,
    his mind and his body,
    his work and his play,
    his education and his recreation.
    He hardly knows which.
    He simply pursues his vision of excellence
    through whatever he is doing
    and leaves others to determine
    whether his is working or playing.
    To himself, he is always doing both.
    —James A. Michener
69. "Be yourself, because everyone else is
    already taken." -Oscar Wilde
70. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
71. One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
72. Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.
73. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
74. Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.
75. Love is when you shed a tear and still want her, it's when she ignores you and you still love her, it's when she loves another guy but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.
76. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
77. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
    Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
    Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus
78. I'll Be Here
79. You're Not Alone
80. All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. --T.E. Lawrence
81. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. --John Stuart Mills
82. You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. --Robert F. Kennedy
83. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. --Albert Einstein
84. Let thy words be few. -Ecclesiastes 5:2
85. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. --Earl of Beaconsfield
86. The waters wear the stones. --Job 14:19
87. Energy and persistence conquer all things. --Benjamin Franklin
88. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. --Chinese Proverb
89. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. --Confucius
90. Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. --Thomas Fuller
91. As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. --Jules Renard
92. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. --Kal Menninger
94. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
    Hypocrites
95. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. --Italian Proverb
96. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. --William James
97. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. --James Beattie
98. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. --Henry Ford
99. The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. --Charles W. Eliot
100. Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale

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