Tag: Positivity

Quotes August 24, 2019

Being defeated is often a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
 
 
 
 
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
 
 
 
 
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Fear is what stops you, courage is what keeps you going.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Remind yourself that you don’t have to do what everyone else is doing.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.
Unknown

Quotes July 29, 2019

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang,
computer engineer, inventor
 
 
 
 
We need role models who are going to break the mold.
Carly Simon,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
 
 
 
 
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
 
 
 
 
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith
 
 
 
 
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem
 
 
 
 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
 
 
 
 
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
Sai Baba
 
 
 
 
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
Bob Marley
 
 
 
 
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
William J. Clinton
 
 
 
 
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
 
 
 
 
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Quotes July 11, 2019

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S.E. Hinton,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.”
Imani Shola
 
 
 
 
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
“It is through understanding my own sensuality that I can be able to love someone else.”
Lebo Grand
 
 
 
 
“We must treat ourselves with care, respect, and compassion before we can effectively extend these things to others.”
Kristi Bowman
 
 
 
 
“The Best Health Care Plan Is A Self Care Plan”
Nina Leavins
 
 
 
 
“Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.”– Vironika Tugaleva
 
 
 
 
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
“Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.”
Yaron Brook
 
 
 
 
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
“As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”
Akiroq Brost
 
 
 
 
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
 
 
 
 
I would no longer open my soul to people undeserving of it.”
Teresa Lo

Quotes May 30, 2019

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg

 
 
“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
Henry Ward Beecher
 
 
 
 
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket
 
 
 
 
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
Paul Henderson
 
 
 
 
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
Malak El Halabi
 
 
 
 
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
Harvey Mackay
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Billy Wilder
 
 
 
 
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“Every day brings new choices.”
Martha Beck
 
 
 
 
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer
 
 
 
 
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson
 
 
 
 
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
 
 
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
Lupita Nyong’o
 
 
 
 
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
 
 
 
 
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France
 
 
 
 
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
 
 
 
 
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
Kristen Zambucka
 
 
 
 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
Les Brown

Quotes May 19, 2019

Knowing what you need to do to improve your life takes wisdom. Pushing yourself to do it takes courage.
Mel Robbins
 
 
 
 
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.
Ruthie Lindsey
 
 
 
 
I’d rather be optimistic and wrong, than pessimistic and right.
Elon Musk
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t matter if you flip burgers, bricks or houses. Just don’t sit on your ass all day flipping channels. Hustle.
Denzel Washington
 
 
 
 
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
 
 
 
 
“Too busy” is a myth. People make time for the things that are really important to them.
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
A stone is broken by the last stroke of the hammer. This doesn’t mean that the 1st stroke is useless. Success is the result of continuous and persistent effort.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Failure is not an impediment, she is a teacher. A brutal mistress that will give you experience more valuable than any easy win.
Unknown

Quotes May 14, 2019

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark.
Jay Danzie
 
 
 
 
“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people…”
The Breakfast Club
 
 
 
 
I don’t want you to save me. I want you to stand by my side as I save myself.
sushil, The Flexible Enterprise
 
 
 
 
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.
Louis C.K.
 
 
 
 
Sorry is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Classy is when you have a lot to say but you choose to remain silent in front of fools.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Don’t let someone dim your lights simply because it’s shining in their eyes.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it will take their breath away.
Unknown

Quotes April 25, 2019

We have seen what we thought was unseeable.
Sheperd Doeleman,
astrophysicist and director of the Event Horizon Telescope project, when unveiling the first picture of a black hole on April 10
 
 
 
 
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.
Douglas Pagels,
writer
 
 
 
 
The tragedy of a thoughtless man is not that he doesn’t think, but that he thinks that he’s thinking.
Andrzej Majewski,
writer and photographer
 
 
 
 
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers,
actor, humorist, social commentator
 
 
 
 
[Human evolution] just got even messier, more complicated and a whole lot more interesting.
Matt Tocheri,
anthropologist, about the recent discovery of a previously unknown human species
 
 
 
 
It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz,
former football player, coach and analyst

 
 
 
 
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’
Eckhart Tolle,
spiritual teacher
 
 
 
 
There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger,
former US secretary of state
 
 
 
 
Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us — citizens and businesses alike — are active participants in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.
Arnold Hiatt,
corporate executive
 
 
 
 
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.,
author
 
 
 
 
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu,

 
 
 
 
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
Denis Diderot,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Every attempt to reach new milestones holds opportunities for us to learn, adjust and progress.
Jim Bridenstine,
NASA administrator, after Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the moon
 
 
 
 
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
Dean Smith,
college basketball coach
 
 
 
 
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye,
endocrinologist and stress researcher

Quotes March 31, 2019

Change obstacles into challenges. You might have to step back and go a different direction, but you can achieve.
Raye Montague,
naval engineer who revolutionized the design process for naval ships, and US Navy’s first female program manager of ships
 
 
 
 
Put your ego in your pocket and sit on it.
Beverly Jenkins,
author
 
 
 
 
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.
Mae Jemison,
engineer, physician, NASA astronaut and first black woman to travel into space
 
 
 
 
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don’t wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it’s the greatest art.
Sonia Sanchez,
poet and recipient of the 2018 Wallace Stevens Award
 
 
 
 
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing,
writer and Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Lydia Sigourney,
poet
 
 
 
 
Life doesn’t begin when you lose weight. Big dreams can be planned for and achieved in the bodies we have today, regardless of size or age.
Deb Malkin,
one of at least 20 plus-size women who hiked Mount Kilimanjaro together from March 2 to 10
 
 
 
 
Lack of effort bends me out of shape.
Bernadette Locke-Mattox,
first woman to serve as assistant coach for a men’s NCAA Division I basketball team
 
 
 
 
Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.
Frances Mayes,
professor, writer and “Under the Tuscan Sun” memoirist
 
 
 
 
If there’s anything you’ve wanted to do for yourself, just get out and go for it.
Arlene Pieper,
first woman to finish a US marathon (Pikes Peak Marathon, 1959)
 
 
 
 
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to … behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word — politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz,
author
 
 
 
 
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it because, they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.
Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper,
developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language
 
 
 
 
I never did understand the trick of doing things like you were “supposed to.”
Karen Uhlenbeck,
mathematician, professor and first female winner of the prestigious Abel Prize (2019)
 
 
 
 
I had very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing, so I set out to learn. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge.
Katharine Graham,
second female publisher of a major American newspaper
 
 
 
 
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all — make us laugh, think, cry and cheer — preferably in that order.
Madeleine Albright,
first female US secretary of state
 
 
 
 
I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be — and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gaga,
singer, actress, Academy Award-winning songwriter and first artist to log more than 1 billion YouTube views
 
 
 
 
Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!
Jo Franz,
author and speaker living with multiple sclerosis
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t matter what your background is and where you come from. If you have dreams and goals, that’s all that matters.
Serena Williams,
tennis player with the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles among active players

Quotes February 27, 2019

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
 
 
 
 
Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
Hercules
 
 
 
 
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
C. G. Jung
 
 
 
 
Not ONE DROP of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me. Say it out loud. Smile. Repeat.
Quincy Jones
 
 
 
 
Life is not always perfect, but it’s always what you make it. So make it count, make it memorable, and never let anyone steal your happiness.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
No magic potions. No fairy dust. No one to do it for you. Just me, I will push you, show you, how to put one determined foot in front of the other. That’s what I will do. I am inside you… I’m called your inner strength. Dig deep down and find me.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
One day? Or day one.
You decide
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Sky above me. Earth below me. Fire within me.
Unknown

Quotes February 14, 2019

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung
 
 
 
 
Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
Gary Zukav
 
 
 
 
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
 
 
 
 
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
 
 
 
 
If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis
 
 
 
 
You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.
Alyssa B. Sheinmel, Faceless
 
 
 
 
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln