Tag: Assorted

Quotes July 11, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake – 1757-1827 – Poet-Painter-Printmaker
 
 
 
 
Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result … His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
 
 
 
“Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive.”
Betty Ford
 
 
 
 
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest… It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
Tom Hanks
 
 

Quotes July 08, 2024

You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. That to me is the sign of a champion.
Roger Federer,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
The most organizing conversation starter is “What do we want to create together?”
Peter Block
 
 
 
 
But I know a greater reality and a greater awareness exists. I know there is a truth that cannot be thought, only received.
Tracy Cochran
 
 
 
 
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
 
 
 
 
It’s not what you do, but who you become by what you do.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 01, 2024

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz – Football Player and Coach
 
 
 
 
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki – Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high / On a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky
Van Morrison,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
Martha Stewart,
businessperson, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Mahatma Gandh
 
 
 
 
Our hearts are actually designed to empty and fill at the same time, receiving and sending lifeblood with every pulse. If the heart does not empty, it cannot fill.
Cynthia Li
 
 
 
 
Surrender the need to secure approval from others and align to your own sense of self.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 

Quotes June 23, 2024

“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.”
Marla Gibbs
 
 
 
 
“We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian
 
 
 
 
“Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
 
 
 
 
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
“Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.”
Morgan Freeman
 
 
 
 
“In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 

Quotes May 25, 2024

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
I didn’t know anything, so I asked a lot of questions.
Bruce Nordstrom,
businessperson, retail executive
1933-2024
 
 
 
 
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
 
 
 
 
“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
Charles Eames
 
 
 
 
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
Bob Dylan
 
 
 
 
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
 
 
 
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes May 22-23, 2024

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
We evolved, moved around and had success. Success gave us the confidence to push on.
Bruce Nordstrom,
businessperson, retail executive
1933-2024
 
 
 
 
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
Tennessee Williams
 
 
 
 
“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”
Sugar Ray Robinson
 
 
 
 
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley – Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The air is the only place free from prejudice.”
Bessie Coleman
 
 
 
 
“Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.”
Olympia Dukakis
 
 

Quotes May 09, 2024

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus – 1466-1536 – Theologian
 
 
 
 
Commitment is the foundation of great accomplishments.
Heidi Reeder – Author
 
 
 
 
Colors are brighter when the mind is open.
Adriana Alarcon – Author
 
 
 
 
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo – 1802-1885 – Poet-Novelist-Dramatist
 
 
 
 
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard
 
 

Quotes May 02, 2024

Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.
Jhumpa Lahiri,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music?
Louis Armstrong
 
 
 
 
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar – 1601-1658 – Writer-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
Fred DeVito – Author-Fitness Expert
 
 
 
 
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir – 1838-1914 – Author
 
 
 
 
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
Oliver Goldsmith
 
 
 
 
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
 
 
 
 
I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life, not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them.
Eileen Myles,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 

Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 26, 2024

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brene Brown – Professor-Lecturer-Author
 
 
 
 
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.”
Selma Lagerlöf
 
 
 
 
“We didn’t know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.”
Barbie inventor and businesswoman Ruth Handler
 
 
 
 
“Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”
Liza Minnelli
 
 
 
 
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject…the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
Sir Alexander Fleming
 
 
 
 
“Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.”
Susan B. Anthony
 
 
 
 
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 
 
 
 
“If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built.”
Simone Biles
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 23-24, 2024

If you believe in what you’re saying, if you believe in what you’re doing, you’ll be more effective, more passionate, and more authentic in everything you do.
Seth Goldman – Businessman
 
 
 
 
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis – 1925-2014 – Consultant-Author
 
 
 
 
There are many paths but only one journey.
Naomi Judd – 1946-2022 – Singer-Actress
 
 
 
 
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”
Dean Smith
 
 
 
 
“What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.”
Hattie McDaniel
 
 
 
 
“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.”
Ralph Ellison
 
 
 
 
“Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”
Wilt Chamberlain
 
 
 
 
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go..”
Jeannette Rankin
 
 
 
 
“If you can’t do it with feeling—don’t.”
Patsy Cline
 
 
 
 
“When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.”
Shaquille O’Neal
 
 
 
 
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.”
Stanley Kubrick