Inspirational Copywork 36 weeks of brief Inspirational quotations to promote good character and good penmanship!
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Week 1 I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality - Billy Graham "We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford "Let everyone regulate his conduct by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him." -William Wilberforce "Great things have small beginnings." - Francis Drake
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Week 2 "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." - Robert E. Lee "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." - Ephesians 2:10, NKJV "To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will." - Ronald Reagan "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Week 3 "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens." - Daniel Webster You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. - Clay P. Bedford "God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us." - Martin Luther "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Week 4 "Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner "We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence." - John Piper "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Week 5 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - Martin King, Jr. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell "A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming." - Martin Luther
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Week 6 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jeremiah 29:11, NKJV We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher "I have not failed. I ve just found 10,000 ways that won t work." Thomas Edison "We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all." -William Wilberforce
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Week 7 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." - 2 Timothy 1:7 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it s time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless." - William Wilberforce "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others." - Helen Keller
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Week 8 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." Dave Davidson Don t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him." Hudson Taylor "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." - Ronald Reagan
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Week 9 "Don't find fault; find a remedy." - Henry Ford The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer. - Proverbs 9:10-12 The difference between school and life? In school, you re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you re given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man a more clever devil." - C.S. Lewis
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Week 10 Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart." Bob Pierce No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. - Hebrew 12:11 "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character --that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." - Mark Twain "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
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Week 11 "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him. C. S. Lewis "Sympathy is no substitute for action." David Livingstone, "If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life." - Hudson Taylor
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Week 12 "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." - Corrie ten Boom "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St. Jerome My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding- indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. -Proverbs 2:1-5 "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God". - Leo Buscaglia
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Week 13 "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert H. Schuller Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me- put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. - Philippians 4:8-9 "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Week 14 "Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell." - Johns Adams "Be gentle to all and stern with yourself." - Saint Teresa of Avila "The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' " - Martin Luther King, Jr. Winning doesn t always mean being first. Winning means you re doing better than you ve done before. Bonnie Blair "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Week 15 The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? - Hebrews 13:6 You re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A.A. Milne/Christopher Robin "I... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe [Proverbs 18:10]." - Samuel Adams Don t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Jim Rohn Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Week 16 "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength." - Deuteronomy 6:5 "My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins [Acts 22:16]. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly! [Revelation 22:20]" - Dr. Benjamin Rush In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt "The moral principles and precepts found in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws." - Noah Webster
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Week 17 "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." - Matthew 6:33 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver "I recommend a general and public return of praise and thanksgiving to Him from whose goodness these blessings descend. The most effectual means of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties is always to remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow." - John Jay You cannot dream yourself into character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Henry David Thoreau Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein
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Week 18 "Only those who want everything done for them are bored." - Billy Graham "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." - Ephesians 4:32 Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Ernest Hemingway "Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson God s work done in God s way will never lack God s supplies. Hudson Taylor
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Week 19 We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Every day, for the rest of your life, you'll have to choose. Do you want to fit in or do you want to embark on the lonely pursuit of greatness. - Ray Allen The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' Billy Graham God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile. Max Lucado "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don t lose faith." - Steve Jobs
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Week 20 "If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" D.L. Moody Remember who you are. Don t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth. Lysa Terkeurst We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot." Eleanor Roosevelt This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet. Beth Moore Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one s life for one s friends. John 15:13
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Week 21 The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm. Matt Chandler We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Chuck Swindoll "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill "If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." Elisabeth Elliot "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." Abraham Lincoln
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Week 22 "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." - George Washington Carver "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. Randy Alcorn For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39 "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
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Week 23 You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read. John MacArthur Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. Martin Luther Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine "Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope." - John Piper We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C.S. Lewis
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Week 24 "Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much." - John Wayne We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. C.S. Lewis Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. Robert H. Schuller "The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous." - John Piper Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Week 25 Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard "The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing." Zephaniah 3:17 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. C. S. Lewis
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Week 26 "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" William Carey, "I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light." John Keith Falconer "You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally." - John Piper "God giveth no man his grace that he should let it lay still and do no good withal, but that he should increase it and multiply it with lending it to others, and with open declaring of it with the outward works, provoke and draw others to God." - William Tyndale "People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." Nate Saint,
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Week 27 In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people s, we do not accept them easily enough. C. S. Lewis "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford "The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation." - Corrie ten Boom "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Week 28 "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." C.T. Studd "Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects." - William Wilberforce When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all. C. S. Lewis And in the end it s not the years in your life that count. It s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
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Week 29 "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan "God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours." David Livingstone "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller Tell me and I ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I ll understand. - Chinese Proverb "The Education of a man is never complete until he dies." - Robert E. Lee
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Week 30 "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." - Henry Ward Beecher "Great indeed are our opportunities; great also is our responsibility." -William Wilberforce It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God. C. S. Lewis "Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - James Cook The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri Bergson
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Week 31 "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham "The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens." - James Cook "There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - Ronald Reagan "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Week 32 Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. C. S. Lewis "No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service." - Christopher Columbus "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere." - Albert Einstein "I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor." - Martin Luther "I believe every human has a finite number or heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong
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Week 33 "Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends." - Henry Ward Beecher Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. Brad Henry "It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power." - William Wilberforce "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther "Faith is not the power of positive thinking; it is believing in God and trusting that His will is always best even when you cannot understand why." - Shari Howerton
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Week 34 "If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go" - William Wilberforce "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones." - Proverbs 3:5-8 The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. - Bill Beattie "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -- Henry David Thoreau
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Week 35 "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln "My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it." - Robert Rogers "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success." -- Thomas J. Watson "Let God's promises shine on your problems." - Corrie Ten Boom "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Week 36 "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison "We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher "No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes." - Martin Luther "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" - Abraham Lincoln "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil." - Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
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