25 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes For Every Season of Life

We spend a lot of time eating meals together. The dinner table is where we spend meaningful time and have thought-provoking conversations. My kids are teens now. Sometimes, they know way more stuff than me.

The other day, I was looking over my daughter’s shoulder while she scheduled some tweets for clients. The quotes she gathered is mind-boggling! Did you know that she has a virtual assistant business and she is celebrating her first year in business at the end of this month?  It didn’t happen suddenly. A year ago, we hired a business mentor to work with her for a whole day, and she has not stopped learning with the same mentor since that day.

My son, however, always has these ‘weird’ questions. Today, he asked, “Do you think there are more people living in apartments than houses?”

“Dude, please google it!” “I don’t know and I don’t want to know.” But he wanted to know. He must be up to something good.

The next thing he asked was “how can I generate some income?” We answered, "start a blog!" in unison (my daughter and I). So he started blogging. Check him out. He is getting ready to launch his own blog in two months and possibly making $40 a month from blogging. That's a start for a 14 year old. At the meantime, we are running a test on his blogging perseverance on uncommongeneration.com.

For this blog post, I paid my son $5 to search 25 quotes and another $5 to create five graphics through InstaFrame. Here are the quotes he found and the graphics he created:

1. Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. - Phil Jackson

2. If we all did the things we are capable of,
 we would astound ourselves. -Thomas Edison

3. Energy and persistence conquer all things.-Benjamin Franklin

4. Every artist was first an amateur.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike. 
-Theodore

6.We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble over them, climb over them or build with them. - William Arthur Ward

7. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill

10. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein

11.You can conquer almost every fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. - Dale Carnegie

12. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
-Mark Twain

13. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
-Mark Twain

14. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

15. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

16. Failure is not an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. - Zig Ziglar

17. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi

18. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
-Mahatma Gandhi

19. Either you run the day or the day runs you.
-Jim Rohn

20. Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
-Babe Ruth

21.Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

22. Action is the foundational key to all success.
-Pablo Picasso

23. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
-Tony Robbins

24. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-C. S. Lewis

25. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-Jack London

We can all use some inspiration. Do you need some to move forward today? Maybe it is right in front of you. I've learned from Russell H. Conwell's book "Acres of Diamonds" that our diamonds may be right in front of us or in our own backyard. Until we recognize that, we can travel around the world to search for it... it may not be found.

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