Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn’t see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”

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202. “God’s justice will always be found at the end of a pen.”

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203. “Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don’t care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God.”

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204. “There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.”

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205. “And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home.”

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206. “When God has a mission for you to complete he will give you the intelligence, talents and resources to complete the job. He will also give you an army of people to protect you.”

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207. “You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled is the moment you feel superior and distance yourself from a humble heart that believes God knows what he is doing.”

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208. “Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.”

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209. “Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.”

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210. “Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of – the more history changes, the more it stays the same.”

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211. “Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”

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212. “An insecure woman chases love; a confident woman invites a man to find her.”

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213. “Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.”

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214. “Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.”

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215. “Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.”

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216. “The most miserable people are those that care only about themselves, understand their own drama and see only their own perspective.”

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217. “Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.”

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218. “You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.”

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219. “Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.”

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220. “You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.”

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221. “If they truly loved you they won’t devalue you.”

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222. “The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye.”

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223. “Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”

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224. “Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.”

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225. “You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.”

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226. “You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

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227. “Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”

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228. “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?”

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229. “No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.”

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230. “You can’t turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn’t be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.”

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231. “The number of chances you give someone doesn’t tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”

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232. “It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”

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233. “The devil lives in the shadow of subtle things – those things people keep hidden from others. They reside in the lies they tell themselves, in order to justify their pain or fear. It is the slight, the dig, the silence and the unspoken truth that we minimize to a passive aggressive status, as if it were a lesser evil. Integrity is not subtle. It speaks loudly, so everyone can hear and be healed. It is something you will never have to search for because it is seen and felt.”

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234. “When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”

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235. “Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.”

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236. “We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you.”

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237. “God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.”

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238. “A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.”

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239. “Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.”

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240. “Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your belief in what is fair, what is real, what is forgiveable, what is not and what type of person will you become today now that you know.”

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241. “There are always a million words behind the silence.”

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242. “Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.”

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243. “Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.”

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244. “Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.”

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245. “A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don’t hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.”

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246. “A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”

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247. “Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life’s happiness.”

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248. “The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.”

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249. “Sometimes you don’t need to be told the truth. You just need to understand the nature of fear and how it effects the people that interact with you. It is the fear of loss that tests a person’s faith, more than any other trajedy. Never let your heart become blind to people’s weaknesses. Because when they lose faith they are capable of anything.”

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250. “Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person’s affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn’t fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?”

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