Inspirational Pictures Quotes That Will Inspire Gratitude and Determination

We spend so much time in our lives trying to deal with challenges that, at some point, we feel defeated and lost. It’s true – struggles are a constant element of living. We experience failures, gut-wrenching loss, and heartbreaks, and we’re usually never prepared for any of these. But here we are, rising and striving to keep everything going. After all, there’s no one else in this world more capable of giving us better days than ourselves.

Boost your willpower and focus on gratitude with these inspirational pictures quotes.

Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

Look for a loyal heart that will love you every day.

Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life — will come to you. And stay. – Will Smith

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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Every day you wait is another day that you will never get back again. The most important thing is not to be bitter about life’s disappointments.

Overthinking is the biggest cause of our unhappiness.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by making nine women pregnant. – Warren Buffett

Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. – Jim Rohn

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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. – C.S. Lewis

People make time for who they want to make time for. People text, call and reply to people they want to talk to. Never believe anyone who says they’re too busy. If they wanted to be around you, they would.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they’re gonna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.

It’s never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. – Richard Feynman

Cutting people out of your life doesn’t mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay.

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. – Iain Thomas

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s the true strength.

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Never apologize for saying what you feel.

When people walk away, let’s them. Your future is not about people who walk away. It’s about the people who stay in it for the ride.

The best things in life are the people you love, the places you’ve seen, and the memories you’ve made along the way.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

Some pursue happinessothers create it.

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When the world says, “Give up”, Hope whispers. “Try it one more time.”

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what’s wrong in our life, or we can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson

One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW. – Paulo Coelho

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. – Lewis Carroll

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The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. – Jordan Belfort

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days ahead. – Joel Osteen

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Happiness isn’t about getting what you want all the time. It’s about loving what you have and being grateful for it.

Never blame anyone in your life, good people give you happiness, bad people give you experience.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you too. – Rick Warren

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing & appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. Marcel Pagnol

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. – Mahatma Gandhi

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

The difference between impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda

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One of the simplest ways to stay happy is… letting go of the things that makes you sad. – Daily Dose

In the end, you’ll know which people really love you. They’re the ones who see you for who you are and no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you. – Ritu Ghatourey

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No family is perfect… we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times, but in the end, family is family… the love will always be there.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and fight for your dreams.

The truth is that airports saw more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of the churches.

Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and observe more than you know.

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Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt only by heart.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh

If you genuinely love someone, don’t ever decorate their eyes with tears, their ears with lies, and the heart with a wound.

Keep the faith. Hold on, things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.

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Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Sometimes we have to fight for what we love and care about, but sometimes we have to find the strength to let it go.

No matter how much it hurts now, one day you will look back and realize it changed your life for the better.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. – Sri Chinmoy

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