The 15 Most Powerful Thoughts


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15) Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
~Eckhart Tolle

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14) Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.
~William James  

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13) Be brave, and rise superior to your sorrows, and maintain a spirit that cannot be broken.
~Ovid

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12) Some of life's greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
~Ezra Taft Benson

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11) The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius

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10) Love, not fear, must be our guide. 
~Rosa Parks

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9) Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~Basil King

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8) I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank

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7) Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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6) If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
~Rumi

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5) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller

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4) If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau

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3) Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it.
~Florence Nightingale

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2) He is wise who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus

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1) And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses 

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Honorable Mentions

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Let us bear with magnanimity
whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Seneca
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Cherish your visions, your ideals,
the music that stirs in your heart.
If you remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.
James Allen
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In the depth of winter, I finally
learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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Never despair, but if you do,
work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
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Have courage for the great sorrows of
life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go
to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
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I am quite my own master,
agreeably lodged, perfectly easy
in my circumstances. I am
contented with my situation and
happy because I think myself so.
Alain Le Sage
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The best and most beautiful things
in this world cannot be seen or even
heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ships in harbor are safe, but
that's not what ships were built for.
John Shedd
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A musician must make his music, an
artist must paint, a poet must write if he
is to ultimately be at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
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The mightiest works have been
accomplished by men who have kept
their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Bowie
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Let us go singing as far as we go:
the road will be less tedious.
Virgil
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
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We shall never know all the good
that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
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No pessimist ever discovered the
secrets of the stars, or sailed to
an uncharted land, or opened a
new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
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All that a man achieves, and all that
he fails to achieve, is the direct
result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
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Nothing can add more power to your
life than concentrating all your
energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
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Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil
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Seize the day,
put no trust in the morrow.
Horace
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Every thought that you send out is
a vibration which never perishes.
It goes on vibrating every particle of
the universe; and if your thoughts are
noble, holy, and forcible, they set in
vibration every sympathetic mind.
Swami Sivananda
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Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The way always opens
for the determined soul.
The man of faith and courage.
Orison Swett Marden
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a flying
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
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Let him that would move the world,
first move himself.
Socrates
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Whatever you can do, or dream
you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Your habitual thinking and imagery
mold, fashion, and create your destiny;
for as a man thinketh, so is he.
James Allen
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If your reasons are big enough, your
belief solid enough, and your desire
intense enough, nothing can stop you.
Brian Tracy
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All battles are first won
or lost in the mind.
Joan of Arc
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Blessed is he
who has found his work.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is a rough road that leads to
the heights of greatness.
Seneca
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How oft the darkest hour of ill
breaks brightest into dawn.
Euripides
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Plant the seeds of expectation in your mind;
cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement.
Believe in yourself as being capable of
overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Great things are not something
accidental but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gough
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Immense power is acquired by assuring
yourself in your secret reveries that
you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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Concentrate all your thoughts on the great
desire in your life. This concentration must
be continuous, unceasing—every minute;
every hour; every day; every week.
Charles E. Popplestone
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Every adversity breeds the seed
of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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Undoubtedly, we become what
we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
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Cherish your visions, your ideals,
the music that stirs in your heart.
If you remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.
James Allen
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Your thoughts, vividly imagined
and repeated, charged with
emotion, become your reality.
Earl Nightingale
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents, which in prosperous circumstances
would have lain dormant.
Homer
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Every human mind is a great slumbering
power until awakened by a keen desire
and a definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
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The soul attracts that which it
secretly harbors; that which it loves,
and also that which it fears.
James Allen
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The creator has not given you
a longing to do that which
you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
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"Let me light my lamp," says the star,
"and never debate if it will help to
remove the darkness."
Rabindranath Tagore
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Keep in mind the better you understand
what you want and why you want it, the
better your chances will be acquiring it.
Fred Jandt
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering
powers; powers that would astonish him,
that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life
if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden
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The moment one definitely commits
oneself, then providence moves too.
W. H. Murray
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The self-image we harbor is the key to
the success or failure of our most
cherished plans and aspirations.
Maxwell Maltz
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