Jar of Pickled Inspiration Quotes

The following list is a work in progress. 

Some may even be repeated or similar to others. 

See how many more you can add of your own. 

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• Laugh and smile a lot! It will keep you well.

• Believe in yourself and pursue your dreams.

• Life is an adventure! Explore and enjoy!

• No matter how tough things get … never give up!

• Don’t try to be beautiful. Just be real … and that is already beautiful enough.

• If you continue to focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.

• Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.

• I am committed to being a happy, healthy, friendly, beautiful, positive, thoughtful, kind person.

• I am a unique and very valuable person.

• I choose to try my best in everything I do and say.

• I am thoughtful of others, even though they may not be of me.

• I am an individual with a unique personality.

• I am an individual with my own unique gifts and abilities.

• I am my own person. I do not have to be like anyone else … and I will not expect that they be like me.

• I respect myself, and I understand that other people are different to me.

• I love myself – with no ‘buts’. I love myself – just as I am.

• “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” (Dr. Seuss)

• I am growing in my confidence more and more every day.

• What I say about myself matters.  What others say about me doesn’t matter as much.

• “You can stay in your corner waiting for others to come to you. But sometimes you have to go to them.” – Piglet

• I am willing to learn something new every day.

• I am a beautiful person, on the inside and on the outside.

• Today is the first day of the rest of my life … and I plan to enjoy it.

• No job will be too hard if I can simply divide it into small tasks.

• I need to listen to my inner dreams & ambitions - those are the sounds that no one else can hear.

• The person who makes no mistakes is the one who never does anything. It is OK if I make mistakes - at least I am doing something!

• No one knows what they can do until they try. I will be a try-er!

• I will be glad of life because it gives me the chance to love, to work and to play, to look up at the stars and dream big.

• I will give the world (others) the best that I have, even if I get nothing back in return – except the satisfaction of having given my best.

• The time is always right to do what is right.

• Everyone has in them something precious that is found in no one else – that includes me!

• It is not who is right, but what is right that matters most.

• Today I choose to be: happy, friendly and kind.

• I refuse to let anything or anyone steal my joy and peace.

• The only person I can change is me … and I choose to be open to making a positive change.

• I refuse to let the fear of striking out get in my way or stop me from trying.

• "No one knows what they can do until they try."

• "The only person who makes no mistakes is the one who never does anything." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

• "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." Babe Ruth

• "Listen to your dreams - those are the sounds no-one else can hear." (Kobi Yamada)

• "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, & to work, & to play, & to look up at the stars." (Henry Van Dyke)

• The big picture of who I am ― and will be is like this:

       o   The person I am today is a result of the          choices I made yesterday.

o   The person I will be tomorrow will be affected by the choices I made yesterday and will make today.

  o   The person I become in the future will be a result of the choices I made yesterday, make today and will make tomorrow.

• If I find I am on a road to nowhere, I will find another road.

• I am willing to learn something new every day.

• I am a beautiful person, on the inside & on the outside.

• When I need a break to re-energize myself, I will take it and not feel guilty.

• "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." (American Proverb)

• "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." (Henry Ford)

• "If you are on a road to nowhere, find another road." (Ashanti Proverb)

• "Give the world the best that you have, & the best will come back to you." (Madeline Bridges)

• "The time is always right to do what is right." (Martin Luther King)

• "Everyone has in them something precious that is in no one else." (Martin Buber)

Feel free suggest other inspirational quotes that you may come up with so that I can add them to the list. Use the comment box and please include your name so that I can acknowledge the source.