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Here is a list of inspirational sayings that I hope may help you when you have one of those days where you question why you're even trying to pursue your dream.
Never give up and stay strong!
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!"
Mother Teresa










"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts."
George F. Tiltonood


"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."
Unknown

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another
Walter Elliott


Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it

You will always miss 100% of the opportunities that you don't take

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore



Luck is when preparation meets opportunity

Obstacles are those annoying things we encounter when we lose sight of our goals

It is never too late to become what you might have been
George Eliot

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

It takes time to build a castle.
Irish Proverb

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ...
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca

Opportunities? They are all around us...
There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Marden, Orison Swett

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.
Contributed by Joe Brown

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home.
Jinger Heath

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
M. Charles Wheeler

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is,
you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley



If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
John J. Watson

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock

If you would like to submit any inspirational sayings to us, pleas email them to dkelly@chicagomusicguide.com, thanks!

Thank you to Arina of Goal-Setting-Guide.com for most of these great sayings!
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