Tag: Assorted

Quotes December 20, 2020

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
 
 
 
 
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination.
Phylicia Rashad,
actor, singer, stage director
 
 
 
 
Inspiration gives no warnings.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Right now a moment is fleeting by! … We must become that moment.
Paul Cezanne,
artist

Quotes December 07, 2020

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman,
jazz musician
 
 
 
 
I Already told you that falling is easy / It’s getting back up that becomes the problem / If you don’t believe you can find a way out / You become the problem.
Catherine Roseanne Dennis
 
 
 
 
Even if you fall, it isn’t over / You’re here ’til the end / Nothing’s stopping you / From getting back up again.
Stefano Giorgini
 
 
 
 
Falling down is life / Living is getting back up again.
Kellen McGregor
 
 
 
 
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
 
 
 
 
Take risks. If you win you will be happy. If you lose, you will be wise.
Unknown

Quotes November 12, 2020

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Douglas Clegg
 
 
 
 
I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
Mitch Albom
 
 
 
 
The more goals you set, the more goals you get.
Mark Victor Hansen
 
 
 
 
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange
 
 
 
 
You have to live through the worst parts of your life, so you never take the best parts for granted.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Make a decision that you are going to enjoy every day in your life.
Unknown

Quotes November 01, 2020

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Randy Pausch
 
 
 
 
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
Henrik Ibsen
 
 
 
 
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter
 
 
 
 
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“It’s possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring—with immense, even startling power.”
Raymond Carver
 
 
 
 
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
Unknown

Quotes October 21, 2020

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus,
writer, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
If Plan A isn’t working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?
Serena Williams,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
 
 
 
 
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
 
 
 
 
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
Richard M. Weaver
 
 
 
 
Focus on the smallest thing you can do right now.
Ryan Holiday

Quotes October 03, 2020

Don’t depend on other people’s encouragement. It’s never enough and never when you need it.
Sigourney Weaver,
actor
 
 
 
 
If your dream only includes you, it’s too small.
Ava DuVernay,
director, producer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
William Faulkner,
writer, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
Joan Collins
 
 
 
 
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.”
W. Clement Stone
 
 
 
 
The expert at anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes
 
 
 
 
Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.
Miles Davis,
jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer
 
 
 
 
Do it, don’t wait for someone else to push you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Somewhere, someone else is happy with less than you have.
Unknown

Quotes September 30, 2020

“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
Jonas Salk
 
 
 
 
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen
 
 
 
 
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
Ray Goforth
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
P. J. O’Rourke
 
 
 
 
“Children are one third of our population and all of our future.”
Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
 
 
 
 
“If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.”
Marian Wright Edelman
 
 
 
 
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 

“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
Unknown

Quotes August 30, 2020

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“The best revenge is massive success.”
Frank Sinatra
 
 
 
 
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
Look around the table. If you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker.
Amarillo Slim
 
 
 
 
“Forget national politics, get to know your county sheriff. That’s where you can make real change in an area that directly affects you!”
Catherine Austin Fitts
 
 
 
 
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
Unknown

Quotes August 16, 2020

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.”
Emery Lord, When We Collided
 
 
 
 
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 
 
 
 
“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“Your now is not your forever.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
 
 
 
 
To achieve success, have a reason other than money.
Unknown

Quotes August 02, 2020

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
 
 
 
 
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs
 
 
 
 
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Pete Seeger,
singer-songwriter
 
 
 
 
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle,
comedian, actor, writer, producer
 
 
 
 
One must take what comes, with laughter.
Olivia de Havilland,
actress
1916-2020
 
 
 
 
One can only discover what has already come into existence.
Shirley Hazzard,
writer
 
 
 
 
Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock,
musician, composer
 
 
 
 
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Stephen King,
writer
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
statesman, philosopher, lawyer