Tag: Passion

Quotes August 08, 2023

“For me, if you’re not in the arena (of life) getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
“True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.”
Isabel Allende
 
 
 
 
“If you have no road map, you have to create your own.”
Jacqueline Woodson
 
 
 
 
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
Frederick Douglass
 
 
 
 
“If we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
Walter Mosley, Blue Light
 
 
 
 
“When you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose.”
Rihanna
 
 
 
 
“I intend to live life, not just exist.”
George Takei
 
 
 
 
“Giving back is as good for you as it is for those you are helping, because giving gives you purpose. When you have a purpose-driven life, you’re a happier person.”
Goldie Hawn
 
 
 
 
“Life isn’t perfect, any failures you have are actually learning moments. They teach us how to grow and evolve.”
Phillipa Soo
 
 
 
 
“The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula
 
 
 
 
“There are no miracles. There is only discipline.”
Danielle Steel
 
 
 
 

“Fear. Fear’s a powerful thing. I mean it’s got a lot of firepower. If you can figure out a way to wrestle that fear to push you from behind rather than to stand in front of you, that’s very powerful.”
Jimmy Iovine
 
 

Quotes March 12, 2022

“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.”
Sir Alexander Fleming
 
 
 
 
This was more than just a cow — this was an entire career I was looking at.
Gary Larson,
cartoonist
 
 
 
 
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.
Junko Tabei – 1939-2016 – Mountaineer-Author-Teacher
 
 
 
 
“You can waste so many years in a situation where someone’s got their foot on your neck and you’re not doing anything about it, and you end up frustrated.”
Ken Lombard
CEO of Bridge Housing Corporation
 
 
 
 
I wanted to see a lot of things in color because the world is in color.
William Eggleston,
photographer
 
 
 
 
Passion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
Join the union, girls, and together say ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work.’
Susan B. Anthony,
social reformer, women’s rights activist, suffragist
 
 
 
 
“Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”
Liza Minnelli
 
 
 
 
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb. And I’m not blonde either.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton,
singer-songwriter, actor, businessperson
 
 
 
 
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.
Zora Neale Hurston,
writer, anthropologist, filmmaker
March is Women’s History Month