Aradiia Gardens - Inspirational Quotes

Positive thoughts never go astray, so we have collected a few
motivational & inspirational quotes from all over the place.
Best served daily on a comfy chair with a warm cuppa!
If you have an inspirational verse that you love & isn't listed here,
we would all love for you to share it with us,
either via the message board or email us so that we
may add it here.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Boiste

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and
whether you believe in yourself.
William J.H. Boetcker

Our lives improve only when we take chances -
and the first and most difficult risk we can take
is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life,
but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best
place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

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Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Unknown

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the
inward efforts of themselves.
Frederick W. Robertson

Happiness is inward and not outward;
and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.
It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Unknown

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Sydney J. Harris

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself,
in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

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We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness.
Unknown

If you can't be happy where you are,
it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.
Charles Jones

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love,
but perhaps greater than love...
Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy."
Randolph Ray

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Don't worry about the world ending today...
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Unknown

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry,
frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

100% Mind + 100% Heart
=
100% Determination
Aradiia

If life delt us the cards we wanted, we would all have a royal flush
Aradiia

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought
Lauren Bacall

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
Confucius

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant

Attitude determines altitude.
Unknown

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy...
you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in
Katherine Mansfield

Great is the character and integrity of the person
who stands their ground while the whole world is
tumbling from under them.
Joseph P Martino

Those who remove mountains begin by carrying away small stones
Chinese Proverb

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
Unknown

Remember, people will judge you by
your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold --
but so does a hardboiled egg.
Author Unknown

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Even if your on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there
William Penn Adair Rogers

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

We must wake ourselves up!
Or somebody else will take our place,
and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
William Booth

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him.
Unknown

God gave us Mouths that close, and ears that don't, that should tell us something
Unknown

Being a king, emperor, or president
is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.
Commanding an army is little more than
sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl.
The mother of Moses did more for the world
than all the kings that Egypt ever had.
Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity,
then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.
I tell you women: Fooling away your time,
hugging and kissing poodle dogs, drinking a cocktail,
and playing cards is mighty small business
compared to moulding the life of a child!
Billy Sunday

Some say it's holding on that makes us stronger, others say it's letting go
Unknown

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure
until he says someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly
is because they sense, once hate is gone,
they will be forced to deal with pain.
Baldwin, James Arthur

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure
until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find
with another, and regardless of how much you blame him,
it will not change you.
Wayne Dyer

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent
of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

Anybody can become angry, that is easy;
but to be angry with the right person,
and to the right degree, and at the right time,
and for the right purpose, and in the right way,
that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
Aristotle

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure,
our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil
Dale Carnegie

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were
Cherie Carter-Scott

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when
it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
Unknown

People need loving the most, when they deserve it the least.
Mary Crowley

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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Advice would always be more acceptable if it didn't conflict with our plans
American Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present
English Proverb

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less,
breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more;
and all good things are yours
Swedish Proverb

Man shall never reach his full capacity while chained to the earth.
We must take wing and conquer the heavens.
Icarus

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,
passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing
them gratified.
Dr Samuel Johnson

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

When it comes to getting things done,
we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David McClure Brinkley

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid
to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk
failure in order to gain success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot
make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves,
and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
Ray Goforth

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