Several Thoughts and Quotes that Inspire Me to Create Hope and be Empowered

Below is a list of thoughts and quotes that inspire me to create hope and be empowered in my life one day at a time. 

Inspire and encourage me to create hope to empower my life one day at a time.

Create hope in my life through doing the footwork. Doing the footwork and letting go of the outcomes.

Letting go of the outcomes while trusting the process, a loving God and myself.

May you also be inspired and encouraged to create hope to empower your life one day at a time.

Create hope in your life through doing the footwork. Doing the footwork and letting go of the outcomes.

Letting go of the outcomes while trusting the process, a loving God and yourself.

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“Big things have small beginnings.” Prometheus

Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, it’s very hard

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe Ruth

“All things start out as hopes that end up as habits.” Lillian Hellman

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Lao Tzu

“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” Abraham Lincoln

“You are the only person on Earth who can use your ability.” Zig Ziglar

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

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

“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison

“Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.” Zig Ziglar

“Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” Bear Bryant

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” Guy Finley

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all the darkness.” Desmond Tutu

“It is not that I am so smart. It is just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein

“Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.” Daya

“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” Tim Fargo

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick (whale) in a row boat and taking tartar sauce.” Zig Ziglar

“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add specifically your own creation.” Bruce Lee

“When setting out on a journey, do not see the advice of someone who has never left home.” Rumi

“Don’t judge your day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“The most common way people give away their power is by thinking that they have any.” Alice Walker

“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.” Wilfred A. Peterson

“Those who danced were considered to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” Albert Schweitzer

“Our circumstances are not meant to keep us down, but they are meant to build us up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” John Salk

“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.” Charles K. Kao

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmon

“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new-ending.” Carl Bard

“Persistence and resilience only come through having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” Gever Tulley

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more, to become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.” Banksy

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes

“In my experience, I have found that adversity is what has made me successful because I refused to give up because of adversity.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA

“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will lives its whole life believing that is is stupid.” Albert Einstein

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always to that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain

“Once we start walking, before long we will be able to look back and see how far we have come because we did not give up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA

“You can not connect the dots looking forwards. You can only connect the dots looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you confidence, even when your heart leads you off the well worn path. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you game me.” Emma Bombeck

“If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life that you have imagined…you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau

“When you dance to your own rhythm people may not understand you; they may even hate you. But mostly they’ll wish they had the courage to do the same.” Sue Fitzmaurice

“Purpose is about a process and a journey, not a destination. I can not know until I know and knowing just takes what it takes. There are no silver bullets or magic potions. By accepting that reality, I am given the gift of knowing. I am given the gift of knowing by trusting the process, a loving God and myself.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“Insist on yourself, never imitate. Your own gift you can present with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.” Henry David Thoreau

“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful. That I was not going to be competitive. And the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do is shrug and say, “We’ll just have to see.” Dick Fosbury (Inventor of the Fosbury Flop and winner of the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City  

“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’ see it. Listen to your own drum and your own drum only. It is the one that makes the sweetest sound.” Simon Sineck

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Steve Job

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light to shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same, as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others. Sir, I just want to say thank you. You saved my life.” From the movie, Coach Carter. Quote attributed to Marianne Williamson