What is your favorite inspirational quote or saying?

@34momma (13882)
United States
March 14, 2008 1:48pm CST
As some of you know, I am in the process of read-doing my apartment. The furniture is ordered and the living room is painted. What i wanted to do was find some wonderful inspirational quotes and saying, print them out on nice paper and framed them all around the apartment. I have some of my favoritess already, but I was wondering what are some of yours?
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14 Mar 08
i hate to be pridictable but for me "sieze the day" encapulates everything that makes you a person. to reach out and make things happen.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
14 Mar 08
i am with you, this is a great one, a classic. I love this one myself too. great pick axle
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
15 Mar 08
1. Do your best and trust God for the rest." 2. The grass may be greener on the other side, but someone still has to mow it. 3. Though you may be on the right track, you still need to keep moving. 4. Judge a man by his questions, not his answers. 5. Always be who you are, because those that matter don't mind and those that mind, don't matter. 6. A friend is one who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. 7. I once dreamed of earning the salary, I am now starving on, LOL. OOPs, not very inspirational, is it?
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
15 Mar 08
ok those are the best that i have seen yet and you are going to get the best answer. humor is the best thing you can have
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
16 Mar 08
I Like #5 Rozie and your new avatar :):) Hiya Momma :)
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
15 Mar 08
Thank you 34momma.
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@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
14 Mar 08
This is my favorite: "I toss upon the waves, but Thou dost steer, Thou who standeth at the helm of all things Thou hast created." St. Augustine
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
14 Mar 08
i have never heard this one before but thanks so much for allowing me to share.
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
14 Mar 08
You HAVE to check this site out. It has awsome stuff on it. Quotes like you wouldn't believe! It is a catalog for you to buy from and I'm not trying to sell it to you I don't sell it nor does a friend of mine. But anyway check it out... tattoos for your wall ... www.uppercaseliving.com Let me know what you think ... I bought the one on page 39 "I believe in fairies" for my little ones room.
@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
15 Mar 08
There are a ton of quotes in the catalog, some of them ... give much gather ofter great many may our home be warm & our friends be many in our home let love abide & bless all those who step inside bless this home and all who enter the love of a family is lifes greatest blessing look up not down look forward not back look out not in we may not have it all together but together we have it all family the essence of life a family that plays together stays together Those are just some of them. If you look through the pages you can read them. Hope that helps more.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
14 Mar 08
i am going to check this site out. i am looking for sayings and quotes that make you feel good, do they have them?
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
14 Mar 08
i am not sure if this is what i was looking for, but thanks ebsharer
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• United States
15 Mar 08
hey momma. sounds like your place is going to be so nice, and refreshed and renewed with great positivity! you're so cute!! here are some of my faves. "Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead." ~Unknown~ "Never regret anything, because at one time, it was exactly what you wanted." ~Unknown~ "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." ~Albert Einstein~ "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." ~C.S. Lewis~ "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ~Mark Twain~
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
Frecklelip, all of these are wonderful and they will all be use for what ia m going to call my wall of hope. thank you so much. and it is so good to see you back, please don't be such a stranger
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• United States
21 Mar 08
that's cool you like them! glad to help!! good luck! it sounds like a great idea what you're doing! how fun!
• Australia
15 Mar 08
I LOVE inspirational quotations. One of my very favorites goes like this, "You don't quit playing because you grow old, you grow old because you quit playing." I love that one and it's so true as well. Anyway, I thought you would a appreciate this link: http://www.quotationspage.com/ It has a great veriety of great quotations and it has a search bar and subject page. It's really a great site for inspirational quotations... I hope this helped a bit!
@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
now this is a good one and one that i have heard often. thanks sassy kitty kat. i am going to check out the site.
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• Australia
17 Mar 08
Yeah, I love that quote! It' a cool site and I really think you will like it...
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@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
15 Mar 08
Hey Momma, I remember watching Carmen with Beyonce some time ago and around her apartment, she had inspirational sayings on frames which was cute. Sounds good to me. I have some and though you picked Roz already, it don't matter, I have some that are cool. There's more than one to skin the cat Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you With God, All things are possible I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
19 Mar 08
those are good ones savvy. i just want my family to always see words that will encourage them to do better and be better and i thought this would be a good way.
• United States
15 Mar 08
Hi momma. I have this one in my office. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let it be now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for ....I shall not pass this way again". I have others, but this one is my favorite.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
now this one is going up on the wall for sure. I love that. it keeps you in the moment and that is the biggest problem we have. we are so upset about yesterday, and to scared to face tomorrow, we forget that today is here and we can make it what ever we want it to be. Again as always, thank you
@jeanniemay (1798)
• Philippines
15 Mar 08
My favorite quote is from Liz Murray, "There is always a way through things if we work hard enough and look close..." I always see and feel it as an encouragement and an inspiration. She grew up in the slam streets of New York. Earn what she is now and didn't put the blame to her parents. JNY
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
thanks jeannie, this is a great one and a very true statement. i think this might be a winner
• Philippines
18 Mar 08
Yes, the quote is truly a winner.. .... I forgot to add, "..it all depends on our level of determination."
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• United States
17 Mar 08
smile and the whole world will think your up to something. i use to have that on a posted of a clown hanging on my wall growing up. i still think about that allot my sister gave it to me
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
ok now i think that is the most fun so far! i love it luara. i bet my kids will love this one, thanks so much
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Mar 08
I have one hanging over my bed in lovely old style script, but I suppose it could be hung anywhere. It's a quote from Robert Browning in a poem to Elizabeth Barret Browning: *Grow Old With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be*. I find it inspiring as it reminds me always to look to the future and what it could bring. It comforts me when things are not the best between me and my *better* half. It encourages me to think beyond the now and it's problems to what could be in the future.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
hey sparko, that is beatiful. those few words have such strong and profound meaning. thanks for sharing that
@Reyah23 (640)
• Philippines
17 Mar 08
My favorite inspirational quote is from a verses on the holy Bible. On the book of isaiah 44:2 "I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born". I like this quote because its tell me that i been love by the Lord even before i was in my mother womb. And it give me confident that because of that amazing love, he will not let me get harm or neglect me on my downess moment of my life.
@34momma (13882)
• United States
17 Mar 08
yes that is an amazing one. to know you are loved before you were even born should be a feeling that feels you with so much love
@Jody20 (887)
• Netherlands
15 Mar 08
Some of my favourite quotes are:"You must be the chance you wish to see in the world" Maharma Gandhi"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" Eleanor Roosevelt"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" T.S. Elliot"Here is a test to find out wether you mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't." Richard Bach"Be glad of life, because it gives you the change to lve and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."Henry van D
@adprast (15)
• Indonesia
15 Mar 08
" Life is like the number of EIGHT " (by myself, adprast)
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@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
15 Mar 08
i have my favorites too.. most of them i collect over a notebook... and when i have all the time i can spend... i upload them to the site i maintain. i especially like love quotes and inspirational quotes... please visit my site too :) http://quotesquoted.blogspot.com/
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I just found a new one that I liked by Eckhart Tolle "You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge." Another one I like that I have on my bebo.com page is "Always be who you are, because those that matter don't mind, and those that mind, don't matter." Not sure who wrote that though. There are a lot more that I like but these are two to name a few :)
@34momma (13882)
• United States
21 Mar 08
i heard the second one before but the first one is just beautiful thanks girl. i think that will be one that makes the wall. you rock!
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
19 Jun 08
ha ha ha ha ha... well, it should be the following: "Can Means Can, Cannot Means Cannot" "I do not know what I do not know, how am I suppose to ask the right questions if I do not know what I don't know in the first place?" "Hold out your hands, and form the shape of a cup. How much can you hold in that pair of hands?" "Every step to a goal, begins with one single step. If you don't take that step, how do you know you will ever get there or not?" "If you must, then do. Otherwise, move on to the next task at hand"