Tag: Thoughts

Quotes August 07, 2025

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley,
singer, actor
 
 
 
 
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
Jay Samit,
digital media innovator, entrepreneur, writer
 
 
 
 
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs,
businessman, inventor, co-founder of Apple
 
 
 
 
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace—as well as freedom, honor and self-respect—is secure.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“You get to fail a lot before you find your story, and HBO really lets you do that, more than anyone else.”
Mickey Down, co-creator of “Industry”
 
 
 
 
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.”
Neil Armstrong on his famous moonwalk
 
 
 
 
“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand? To become something.”
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
 
 
 
 
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 02, 2025

I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
Chuck Mangione,
musician, composer
1940-2025
 
 
 
 
Wealth is enough money to do what I want to with my time.
Andy Stumpf
 
 
 
 
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
There is a crack in everything. / That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen,
singer, songwriter, poet
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.”
Herman Melville
 
 
 
 
“Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.”
Mark Cuban
 
 
 
 
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Jeannette Walls,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 16, 2025

Rhetorical questions have great power.
David Gergen,
US presidential adviser, political commentator, editor, writer
1942-2025
 
 
 
 
I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams.
Aung San Suu Kyi,
politician, diplomat, writer, social activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
 
 
 
 
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
Pull yourself together and use what you have.
Betsy Cañas Garmon
 
 
 
 
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
S. A. Sachs
 
 
 
 
Our lucky star is the one that happens to be in sight when we are having a bit of luck.
Henry Stanley Haskins
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Never get discouraged at difficulties… When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 01, 2025

She Racked the Slide and Handled Business 🔥 | Real Robbery Reaction! This woman didn’t freeze. She didn’t panic. She racked the slide and started blasting. If your partner doesn’t react like this when your life’s on the line… you might want to reevaluate who you’re sleeping next to.
Colion Noir
 
 
 
 
It’s a game of experience. There’s no how-to book.
D. Wayne Lukas,
horse trainer
1935-2025
 
 
 
 
“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.”
Adam Smith
 
 
 
 
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
Sarah Williams

 
 
 
 
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
Salman Rushdie
 
 
 
 
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.”
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
“Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want.”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.”
Sheila Heti
 
 
 
 
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”
Jonas Salk
 
 
 
 
“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
Princess Diana
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 25, 2025

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
 
 
 
 
I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
 
 
 
 
There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.
Wangari Maathai
 
 
 
 
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
Kevin Kelly
 
 
 
 
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Robert Hunter
 
 
 
 
It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 12, 2025

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside … Nature brings solace in all troubles.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.”
Abby Wambach
 
 
 
 
“The true measure of a man is not to be nominated & still show up to read a list of names of those who are nominated. That’s a big man. That’s a big, big man.”
Comedian Larry David
 
 
 
 
“Always cry for love, never cry for pain.”
Prince Rogers Nelson, from “Sometimes It Snows in April”
 
 
 
 
“Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.”
Anne Bancroft
 
 
 
 
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Change, although it involves risks, is the law of life.”
Bobby Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
Philosopher William James
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 02, 2025

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James – 1842-1910 – Philosopher and Psychologist
 
 
 
 
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie – 1860-1937 – Novelist and Playwright
 
 
 
 
You will either step forward into growth or back into safety.
Abraham Maslow – 1908-1970 – Psychologist
 
 
 
 
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.
Bryant McGill – Author
 
 
 
 
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be .
Ken Venturi – 1931-2013 – Professional Golfer-Golf Broadcaster
 
 
 
 
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – 1836-1886 – Religious Leader
 
 
 
 
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Stephanie Perkins – Author
 
 
 
 
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
Henry B. Eyring – Author-Educational Administrator-Religious Leader
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
I am not a product of my circumstances I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey – 1932-2012-Educator-Author-Businessman-Keynote Speaker
 
 
 
 
True masters are those who’ve chosen to make a life rather than a living.
Neale Donald Walsch – Author
 
 
 
 
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 31, 2025

“He faced the worst foreign attack since the War of 1812 on American soil—September 11th. He was at my side within 20 minutes of the attack and never left.”
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the death of former police commissioner Bernie Kerik
 
 
 
 
What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph.
Sebastiao Salgado,
photographer, photojournalist, environmentalist
1944-2025
 
 
 
 
I have struggled to prove myself into existence.
Cathy Park Hong,
writer, poet
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank [President Trump] for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending.”
Elon Musk in a post on X announcing he was leaving his role as a top advisor to President Trump
 
 
 
 
“Staying with Canada is finished. We’ve been an eagle locked up in a cage for decades because of Canada. It’s time that we’re set free.”
Steve Harvey, an Alberta resident in favor of separation from Canada.
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 23-24, 2025

Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes,
poet, social activist, writer, playwright
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
You can’t change and be somebody else in the future unless you start becoming a little better at being that future person today.
Richie Norton – Author-Entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude.
Neale Donald Walsch – Author
 
 
 
 
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin
 
 
 
 
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
 
 
 
 
“If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I’ve accomplished something.”
John Glenn
 
 
 
 
“This is the world you have made yourself; now you have to live in it.”
Nina Simone
 
 
 
 
“I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”
Drew Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Mozart
 
 
 
 
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Laozi
 
 
 
 
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
 
 
 
 
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
 
 
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent.”
Robert Oppenheimer
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 10, 2025

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann,
actor
 
 
 
 
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
“I think we all learn from the past. I just feel we shouldn’t live there. We shouldn’t live in the past. I live for today, and to me, the most important moment is now.”
Shirley Temple
 
 
 
 
One of the things that really amazed me is how the love of this craft, a way of expressing something of oneself, eclipsed the fear.
Dennis Ludlow
 
 
 
 
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
Mitch Albom
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters.
Amy Leigh Mercree