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Dare to Be!!!

Inspirational & Motivational Thoughts
Dare to Be


When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!


— Steve Maraboli 

50 Life Changing Motivational And Inspirational Quotes

 “Nobody is born wise.” - African proverb

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” - Zig Ziglar

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.” - Socrates

“Little by little one walks far.” - Peruvian Proverb

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” - Guinean proverb

“Success comes from within, not from without.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you are absolutely right.” - Henry Ford

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

 “Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” - Pablo Picasso

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson

“You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. - Bateke proverb”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“A patient person never misses a thing. - Swahili proverb”

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.” - Washington Irving

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

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” - Zig Ziglar

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!” - Babe Ruth

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” - Henry Ward Beecher

“If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.” - Japanese saying

“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.” - William Arthur Ward

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Continuance is power and strength.” - Japanese saying

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” - Henry Ford

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” - Benjamin Franklin

“You can only enter half way into the dark forest before you begin to come out the other side.” - Chinese Proverb

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” - Winston Churchill

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Keller

“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow.” - William Shakespeare

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” - Michaelangelo

“A nod, you know, is as good as a wink to a blind horse.” - English Proverb

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

“The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” - Vince Lombardi Jr.

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” - William Shakespeare

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” - Booker T. Washington

“A rolling stone gathers no moss.” - English Proverb

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.” - Zig Ziglar


“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” - Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational Quotes To Live By - 20 Most Encouraging Motivational Quotes For Difficult Times

Many times, we go through tough times throughout life with some being more difficult than others. From failed dreams to break ups to losing people we love.We can become stuck and feel like we can’t move forward. However, move forward we must because regardless of what happens, life goes on.

We are giving Some Most Inspirational Quotes below that will hopefully help you find the mental strength to overcome your obstacles. If you have some similar quotes to deal with Hard Times, Please post them in comments.

“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” – Muhammad Ali

“Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” – Susan Taylor

“Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H Schuller

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can we be perfected without adversity.” – Unknown

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” – John Maxwell

“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.” – James Cash Penney

“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.” – Bertie Charles Forbes

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” – Dalai Lama


“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” – Charlie Jones

Motivational Quotes And Sayings

“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

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
- William E. Channing

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
- C. Malesherbe

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
- Kennedy, John F.

“Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.”
- Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- Walt Disney

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
- James Dean

“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”
- Donald Trump

“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
- English Proverb

“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

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie

“You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
- Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
- Dale Carnegie

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
- Vernon Howard

“Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.”
- Sharon Stone

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
- John Quincy Adams

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison

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

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
- John F. Kennedy

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
- Louis Kossuth

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
- George W. Carver

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain 

Some Most Inspirational Quotes

The word ”can’t“ is the most powerful negative of a man’s mind. -Paul R. Scheele

You didn’t appear on this Earth accidentally, you are not a product of mass production, you haven’t rolled out from the conveyor line. You have been carefully designed, gifted with special skills and brought out to Earth with love. -Max Lucado

In order to make progress you have to start. You start by dividing the complex tasks into the smaller and easier ones. -Mark Twain

If you want to reach high goals, you will have to take the risk. -Alberto Salazar

The ones taking a lot of risk are gaining a lot. -Robert F. Kennedy

Be ready to put everything on stake in pursuit of your dream. -Unknown

Taking risks in ones life is the same as a leap from the mountain. On the fall down wings appear. -Ray Bradbury

What do you want? Be good and stay secure? Or take the risk and become great? -Jimmy Johnson

You are given 20% of power. You will have to take the rest 80%. -Peter Neberop

Everything is doable, it’s just not that easy to figure out how. -E. Allen

Progress never comes without any risk. You cannot reach the second base if you stay in the first in Baseball. -Frederic Wilson

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which remained in my mind. -Mark Twain

Success leaves footprints. -Anthony Robbins

I can bet, the successful man experienced more failures than luck in his life. -Kevin Sorbo

We take the walk of our lives just once. We can walk carefully on tips of our toes, hoping that we will escape bigger troubles till the end of our lives. However we are able and we have to live our lives to the fullest, make and reach our goals, realize the most daring dreams. -Bob Proctor

Every failure can be bypassed in alternate ways. When the obstacle is in your way, learn how to bypass it. -Mary Kay Ash

Take the first step in faith. You won’t see the whole staircase just take the first step. -Martin Luther King

You will never swim across the sea just by sitting and watching the water. -Rabindranath Tagore)

Contemplate on it and you will become rich. -Napoleon Hill

Build your future by looking at it. Forget the past. -Werner Erhard

 If you are ready to do more than you are paid for, the time will come when you will be paid more. -Unknown

When one door closes another opens. That’s how the law of balance of forces works. -Bryan Adams

“No” is the word in your path to “yes”. Don’t give up on your dream too soon even if your parents, relatives and friends would urge you taking the “serious” work or college studies you have no interest in. Your dreams are the real job and occupation. -Arnoldas Kubiliunas

Fall down seven times, get up eight times. -Japanese proverb

History shows that people who made the greatest achievements, usually faced the greatest obstacles on their way to success. They succeeded just because they were not scared of failures. -Forbes

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. -J.M. Power

An employee’s motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. -Bob Nelson

Desire is the key to motivation, but it is determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. -Mario Andretti

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. -Jim Rohn

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.  -Zig Ziglar

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. -David Viscott

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best. -Doris Lessing


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle