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These encouraging quotes will remind you hard times don't last forever. Better days are ahead.

We singles need hope. We need to learn to look for opportunities for happiness and gratitude. Too often we feel down or lonely and it colors our entire world. Encouraging quotes like these are by no means a cure-all, but they help us remember God can turn things around quickly--sometimes in the blink of an eye.

So dive in! And these wise sayings aren't the only ones on www.inspiration-for-singles.com. Be sure to check the links at the bottom of the page for more uplifting words of wisdom.


I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller

Freedom isn't doing what you want to do. Freedom is wanting to do what you ought to do.

Dr. Tony Evans

Praise God for all the times he told you 'No'. Every time he tells you 'No', he's leading you to a better 'Yes'.

Beth Moore

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy 

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In the long run, you make your own luck—good, bad, or indifferent.

Loretta Lynn

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Louis Mann

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Will Rogers

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.

Julia Child

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Mother Teresa

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

Bill Nye

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Louis L’Amour

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Stephen Hawking

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Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.

Laird Hamilton

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.

Joan Didion

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

We become what we think about most of the time.

Earl Nightingale

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Audie Murphy

The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.


Thomas Merton

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

James Taylor

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma


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