by Rachel Alessi

Created on: May 23, 2010   Last Updated: May 25, 2010

For months now I've been subscribing to a daily email service. Each morning, when I open my inbox, I have a new, inspirational quote waiting for me and over the weeks I've really grown to look forward to it. So much so that I started to keep a note of my favourites. I send them on to my work colleagues and friends when I find something particularly powerful, thought-provoking, or funny - there's no medicine like a good belly laugh in my humble opinion! I'd like to share with you a few of my favourite quotes so far. Each one has had a positive impact on me, whether it has galvanised me into action about something, caused me to think differently about a situation or issue, or just made me smile when I read

Some you'll no doubt recognise and a few you won't. But I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do.

My personal 'favourite' favourite to date is the one by Thomas Jefferson, which you'll find towards the end of this article. I've had to tie quite a few knots in my time!

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"Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."
Cher

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."
Jim Lovell

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
Maureen Dowd

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't. "
Richard Bach (Illusions)

"When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old."
Bill Clinton

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
Gerry Spence

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Friedrich Engels

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

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
Bertrand Russell

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Douglas Everett (American Hockey Player)

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Thomas Jefferson

"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world."
William Shakespeare

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