Quotes

Quotes for Reflection

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~ Mary Pickford

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ~ Martha Washington

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ Maya Angelou

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. ~ Margaret Sanger

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~ Margaret B. Runbeck

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real. ~ Saint Jerome, 374 AD-419 AD

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ~ Maya Angelou

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ~Jesse Owens

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ Oscar Wilde

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. ~Maltbie D. Babcock

Every woman must have a purse of her own. ~Susan B. Anthony

And every man, a wallet. ~Sue M. Mitchell

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. ~ Emily Dickinson

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ Oscar Wilde

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
~Anthony Robbins

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. ~ Ellen Metcalf

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ~ Margaret Fuller

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

There are two ways of spreading light ... To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now. ~ Joan Baez

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ~ Alice Walker

The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. So... relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth.... If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them. ~ Shakti Gawain

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. ~ Ruth Gordon

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ~ Beverly Sills

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ~Douglas H. Everett

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ~ Gail Sheehy

The best index to a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~ Abigail Van Buren

It's not what you call me, but what I answer to. ~ African proverb

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. ~ Diane Marie Child

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul. ~ Flavia

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ~ Betty Smith

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ~ Ella Fitzgerald

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ Erica Jong

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anais Nin

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ~ Indira Ghandi

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~ Margaret Young

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. ~ Mary Jean Irion

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. ~ Audre Lorde

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ~ Virginia Woolf

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -- on your mirror! ~ Susan Jeffers

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. ~ Sonia Croquette

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~ Roseanne Barr

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. ~ Angelina Jolie

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand

If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society. ~ Suzanne Brogger

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ~ Cher