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Living a Better Life® Inspirational Quotes for Life Compiled by Michelle Jones
"One of the great secrets to Living a Better Life® is that it's not about being able to spend MORE money. It's about enjoying and managing what you already have... BETTER!" - Michelle Jones, Founder of BetterBudgeting.com
Here is a selection of my favorite inspirational quotes as I've personally shared with our readers since 2001. May they inspire all of us to LIVE a Better LIFE... with FAITH, HOPE and LOVE! (This page is updated regularly, you are welcome to link to it if you'd like to share it! :o) "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is
finished: If you're alive, it isn't." "It is more
blessed to give than to receive." "The definition
of Insanity... Doing
the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "We must not give only what we have, we must give what we
are." "Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children." "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." Thank God for Dirty Dishes Thank God for Dirty Dishes, With home and health and happiness, "The miracle is this - The more we share, the more we
have." "It is never too late to be what you might have
been." "An optimist is the human personification of
spring." "He who knows that enough is enough will always have
enough." "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." "Think you can, think you can't--either way, you'll be
right." "All the masterpieces of art contain both light and
shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses
both light and shadow to produce beauty." "All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to
wait." "Happiness is a
butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if
you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "Excellence is
not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will
do the best." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life
that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." "Love and time, those are the only two things in all the
world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent." "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you
are supervised, To carry money without spending it, And to bear an injustice
without wanting to get even." "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard
battle." "As we express
our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to
utter words, but to live by them." "To accomplish
great things, we must not only
act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." "Use what talents
you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those
that sang best." "What the
caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." "When you have
exhausted all possibilities, remember this... you haven't." "Perseverance is
a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the
gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." "When written in
Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger,
and the other represents opportunity." "Concentrate all
your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until
brought to a focus." "Forget past
mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything
except what you're going to do now and do it." "Obstacles are
those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "I have learned,
as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead,
that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things
follow." "Nothing will
ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." "... see that you
also excel in this grace of giving." The following poem was featured in loving memory of my
mother,
"As
long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK
BIG." "Start
by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing
the impossible." "Vitality
shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start
over." "If one dream should
fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to
pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
"The
highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for
it, but what they become by it." "Far
away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I
may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty,
believe in them and then try to follow where they
lead."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
"Difficult
times have helped me to understand better than before how
infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and
that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no
importance whatsoever."
"We
are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only
fly embracing each other."
"I have an irrepressible
desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my
having lived in it." "Success
is the ability to go from one failure to another with no
loss of enthusiasm." "We either make ourselves
miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." " Experience is not what
happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." "We
all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace,
hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is
not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you
spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you
freely possess to give." "If
people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so
wonderful at all." "A
bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project." "Life is not the way it's
supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the
difference." "I'm a great believer in
luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." "If no one ever took risks,
Michelangelo, would have painted on the Sistine floor." "Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go." "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of
fear, not absence of fear." "Believe that you can do it, under any
circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That
believe just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get
it." "Many
things which cannot be overcome when they are together
yield themselves up when taken little by little." "Hope
begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just
show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will
come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give
up." "Whatever
your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job
so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could
do it no better." "When written in Chinese, the
word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other
represents opportunity." "I
think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be
responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It
is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for
something, to have made some difference that you lived
at all." "Within us all there are
wells of throught and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until
emergencies arise." "I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I
keep dancing." "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."Ursula K. Le Guin "We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an
act, but a habit." "Optimism
is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence."
"Whenever
you see a successful business, someone once made a
courageous decision."
Dear Readers: Please do not copy my list of favorite quotes, it has taken over 10 years to build. You are welcome to "link to" or "share" this page on your site or blog, or with friends and family. Thank you!!! - Michelle Jones
____________________________________ Copyright © 2001-2012 by Michelle Jones, author of Dealing with Debt, Frugal Family Recipes and Successful Budget Planning... for Those Who Hate to Budget. All rights reserved. Want more money-saving tips and inspirational quotes? Get a FREE Subscription to our monthly newsletter!
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