Tag: Positivity

Quotes July 15, 2025

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead,
cultural anthropologist
 
 
 
 
I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed.
Val Kilmer,
actor
1959-2025
 
 
 
 
“No matter what you call it, music is as good as it sounds. Music is an oral art. Until you hear it, it is not music, and if it sounds good, it is good.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
“One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
“Each and every one of you has the power, the will, and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live.”
Harry Belafonte
 
 
 
 
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
Sigmund Freud
 
 
 
 
“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals.”
Dorothy Height
 
 
 
 
“God forbid that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can; as for me, I shall remain here.”
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor
 
 
 
 
“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 27, 2025

It’s impossible for any artist to represent an entire community.
David Henry Hwang,
playwright, screenwriter, librettist
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Let us all be attentive to new ideas, to advancing means, to dawning needs, to impetuses of change so that we may achieve, beyond architectural originality, a harmony of spirit in the service of man.
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you’re designing for.
I. M. Pei,
architect
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn’t, you might burn the world to the ground.
Celeste Ng,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Bruce Lee,
martial artist, actor, director, philosopher
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
Yo-Yo Ma,
cellist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Your knowing about what’s happening in the rest of the world gives you a chance to care, and it is that empathy that offers the greatest hope.
Ann Curry,
journalist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Remember the past / But do not dwell there / Face the future / Where all our hopes stand.
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole,
singer, musician
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Don’t ever think that just because you do things differently, you’re wrong.
Gail Tsukiyama,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 24, 2025

I just want all survivors to know that you can heal. No dream is too wild, and if it’s so wild and out there — like going to space — you can absolutely make it through, and it can absolutely be possible.
Amanda Nguyen,
social entrepreneur, civil rights activist
 
 
 
 
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp,
dancer, choreographer
 
 
 
 
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
Emery Lord
 
 
 
 
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Sharon Begley
 
 
 
 
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Marie Curie – 1867-1934 – French-Polish Physicist
 
 
 
 
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor Frankl – 1905-1997 – Psychiatrist and Author
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 11, 2025

“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
Harriet Tubman
 
 
 
 
I’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
Judy Garland,
actor, singer
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you.
Reese Witherspoon,
actor, producer, entrepreneur
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
Stanley Kubrick
 
 
 
 
“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.”
Joe DiMaggio
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 05, 2025

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.”
Ossie Davis
 
 
 
 
“When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.”
Medgar Evers
 
 
 
 
“Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.”
David Lynch
 
 
 
 
“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 19, 2025

“Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you—a part that’s so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you.”
Ray Charles
 
 
 
 
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done…
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
When we recognize the wholeness and strength within ourselves, and act from that place of deep inner knowing, our lives naturally get better.
Scott Lennox
 
 
 
 
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer
 
 
 
 
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell – Coach-Author
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.
Matthieu Ricard

Do something now that will make the person you’ll be tomorrow proud.
Unknown

 
 
 
 

Quotes January 18, 2025

“It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.”
Truman Capote
 
 
 
 
“Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don’t really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.”
Althea Gibson
 
 
 
 
“Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
 
 
 
 
“Follow your enthusiasm. It’s something I’ve always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”
Rudyard Kipling
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
Always see positive in everything, whenever the going gets tough, understand there is something good going to happen.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 09, 2025

“Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.”
George Foreman
 
 
 
 
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind.”
Sidney Poitier
 
 
 
 
“It’s the human desire in all of us to want to make life better for somebody else. It makes you feel larger. It makes you feel part of the whole human race. ”
Doris Kearns Goodwin
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 05-08, 2025

Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
Hillary DePiano,
playwright, writer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
John Cheever,
writer
 
 
 
 
Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur Balfour – 1848-1930 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald – 1896-1940 – Novelist
 
 
 
 
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013 – Former President of South Africa
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
Go create the representation you want to see for your community.
Karla Sofia Gascon,
actor
 
 
 
 
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw – Journalist and Author
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 21-22, 2024

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
Wanda Sykes – Comedian-Actress-Writer
 
 
 
 
“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”
Tyra Banks
 
 
 
 
“I believe in the impossible because no one else does and that gives me an excellent chance at accomplishing it.”
Florence Griffith Joyner
 
 
 
 
I believe that filmmaking — as, probably, is everything — is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got.
Francis Ford Coppola,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else’s are even tougher.
Cyndi Lauper,
singer, songwriter, activist
 
 
 
 
All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.
Donal Ryan,
writer