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Old 03-04-2008, 12:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Most Inspiring thing ever said


I still remember one of those very inspiring words that was given to me...
"all is not lost... as long as there is breath within you."

This uplifted my spirit not to quit and keep going until my last breath. I felt invincible knowing that there is always hope. Never lose hope, even if you cannot see the light. Even if you think it's over, even if you think it's the end of the line. Never Quit, Never Lose Hope, Have Faith and Give it All You Got till your last breath.

What's the most inspiring thing that was ever said to you?
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Old 03-04-2008, 07:51 AM   #2 (permalink)
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.....i know after all i created you ( bruce almighty)
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Old 03-04-2008, 08:09 AM   #3 (permalink)
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"I love you" (said my girlfriend; now my wife)
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Old 03-04-2008, 10:27 AM   #4 (permalink)
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My wife said to me yesterday,

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You think you're a 6 foot Oak tree because that's what you see. The truth is that you're really a 30 foot Oak tree, you just forgot.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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"The first step to being sharp is looking sharp!" - Oceans 13

...got a lot of mileage out of that one.

better still: "think big thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." I believe that was from this website somewhere.
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Old 03-05-2008, 02:30 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Its not what someone said to me,but it was lyrics in a song. The line is "This is your life,are you who you want to be?" in the song This Is Your Life by Switchfoot. After i heard that,it just triggered something in me to look inside and ask myself if i really am who i want to be. All of Switchfoot's lyrics are incredibly inspirational (they started out as a Christian rock band but now aren't so limited) so i could have really picked any of their lyrics but that line really inspired me.
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My Mom once told me a very simple and almost cliche sounding line saying: 'There will be no rainbow, hath the eyes no tears...'

But at that precise moment when I am at my deepest, lowest and saddest point in my life; when I have no one turn to. It was the most meaningful word ever!
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"Don't do it, you're just going to fail"
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Old 03-06-2008, 10:49 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 03-08-2008, 09:27 PM   #13 (permalink)
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"We're proud of you"

By my historically non-nurturing parents, on the day of my graduation from law school.
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"I didn't know before, but I love you more, and I'll make it worth your while if you just hang around forever. I don't know how to do that, but I promise I will."
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"Marriage isn't about who you can live with, but about who you can't live without"

i forget where i saw that at...but its stuck with me for a long time...
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The past is history and the future is a mystery...
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Old 03-09-2008, 05:37 AM   #17 (permalink)
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The quote, after being told that I needed to leave the AP English class my senior year of high school was:

"You are not a good writer, you should really consider another focus..."

Minot in English, 1993, Adaptations Published, 2004, Book Published in 2005

Now that is motivation! and no, I have not mailed her a copy of the book...that would be passive aggressive, now wouldn't it
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Old 03-10-2008, 03:03 AM   #18 (permalink)
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A mentor once gave me a quote:

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says "I'll try again tomorrow."

These words have gotten me up and going again and again and again.
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Old 03-10-2008, 01:05 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Get Up!

So many different ways to use it and pretty much all helpful imho.
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Old 03-10-2008, 07:36 PM   #20 (permalink)
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A mentor once gave me a quote:

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says "I'll try again tomorrow."

These words have gotten me up and going again and again and again.
This is very true. Courage doesn't always roar... loving it!
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't...you're right.
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And another:

When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary (the first to climb it) responded by saying, "Because it's there."
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"You're right, you have to do it. All the way."

--My wife, after hearing a particularly risky career decision I made.
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"Stop touching yourself"
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Old 03-11-2008, 12:17 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I cannot forget the exact words my Mom told me days before leaving, after she stayed wth me for 3 straight months for the first time in our lives....

"I am not your mother, I just gave birth to you. But hey! we can still be friends!"
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I cannot forget the exact words my Mom told me days before leaving, after she stayed wth me for 3 straight months for the first time in our lives....

"I am not your mother, I just gave birth to you. But hey! we can still be friends!"
Hahah! I love your mom's humour.
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"There are two types of people in the world. Those who complain and those who succeed"
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"Comfort zones kill the human spirit." Tony Robbins

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I apologize ahead of time for the long post, but this was truly inspiring to me and I will never forget it...

"You can't write and you need to drop this course, Now." My Shakespeare professor from college.

I was in college signed up for a Shakespeare course (which I am sure to you sounds agonizingly boring, but....). I love Shakespeare and I thought this will be great. I was excited. The professor seemed good and enthusiastic so he should be able to hold my attention for more than ten minutes. Right....so I read, read, read...tried hard to understand.. The first paper is assigned. I did my best.

The professor meets me after class and says that he wants to set up an appointment with me, in his office. Okay. At this point I didn't have any idea why, but whatever, it's cool. When I arrived in his office, he looked at me straight in the face and said in one complete sentence, "You can't write and you need to drop this course, Now."...............WTF?!!!! He didn't try to console me or sympathize, he just stated plain as day that I needed to learn to write and this wasn't the course for me. Well, I just couldn't control my emotions at that point and started balling my eyes out right in front of him. Asking him why. Why I needed to drop a course that I really wanted to take. Why he wouldn't want me, or let me take his course. It wasn't that he didn't want me to take his course and I am sure he felt very bad for having to say that to me, but the truth was I wasn't good at understanding what I had written, so if I didn't drop the course, I would have surly failed, which would have ultimately dropped my GPA. But I was heartbroken and I really wanted to take the course. But I did what he suggested and dropped the course without understanding still really why. I thought I could write just fine. It was obvious, it was plain as day. The words written on the paper had nothing to do with what I had just read from the Shakespeare play. I didn't know how to fix this and I didn't know if I wanted to at the time. I just wanted to be able to write and I didn't know how to do that. So I graduated and some time later I started reading, a lot. Books that I wanted to read, not that I was required to read. I read and read and read some more and then I started to write. My husband would read a few things I had written and stated, "I wish I could write like you."...Huh? The more I read, the better I became at writing and I never made that connection before. Now I love writing and feel like I could do it all day. Strange, but true. : )
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Awesome!

It is always awesome to prove someone wrong

....in a positive way I mean.
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