Tag: Various

Quotes October 07-08, 2023

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary – 1919-2008 – Mountaineer
 
 
 
 
The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan – 1934-1996 – Astronomer-Planetary Scientist
 
 
 
 
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter – an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
 
 
 
 
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
“Hanlon’s Razor” – Robert J. Hanlon
 
 
 
 
There is nothing like the death of a moneyed member of the family to show persons as they really are, virtuous or conniving, generous or grasping. Many a family has been torn apart by a botched-up will. Each case is a drama in human relationships — and the lawyer, as counselor, draftsman, or advocate, is an important figure in the dramatis personae. This is one reason the estates practitioner enjoys his work, and why we enjoy ours.
Attorneys Jesse Dukeminier and Stanley M. Johanson
 
 
 
 
People almost never make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought. By way of compensation they demand freedom of expression instead.
Sören Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Silence is golden… unless you have a preschooler, then silence is suspicious.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 

Quotes September 28, 2023

Every person and every thing in the entire Universe is subject to absolute law.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Co-Founder of Proctor Gallagher Institute-Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
You are enough just as you are.
Meghan Markle – Duchess of Sussex-Former Actress
 
 
 
 
Once someone said you are this / & I never questioned it
Yesenia Montilla,
poet
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Everything I do stems from a great passion combined with an almost maniacal attention to detail.
Giorgio Armani,
fashion designer
 
 
 
 
“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.”
Howard Hughes
 
 
 
 
“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Our life’s journey is really about the people who touch us.”
Stuart Scott
 
 
 
 
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
 
 
 
 
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
Robin Williams
 
 
 
 
“I don’t spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.”
Alex Trebek
 
 
 
 
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 

Quotes September 16, 2023

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde – 1854-1900 – Poet-Playwright
 
 
 
 
Discipline is the ability to give yourself a command and follow it.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Joseph Conrad,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.”
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.”
Lena Horne
 
 
 
 
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Baruch Spinoza
 
 
 
 
“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
Bob Hope
 
 
 
 
“It all comes to this: The simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
BB King
 
 
 
 
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“Value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear.”
Pat Summitt
 
 
 
 
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration.”
John Adams, July 3, 1776
 
 

Quotes September 12, 2023

Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.
Esther Hicks – Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“There is more power in unity than division.”
Emanuel Cleaver
 
 
 
 
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
B.F. Skinner
 
 
 
 
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you’ll be.
Katie Couric,
journalist, writer
 
 
 
 
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro,
painter, sculptor, ceramicist
 
 
 
 
“Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.”
Flea
 
 
 
 
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Saint Augustine
 
 
 
 
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
Charles de Gaulle
 
 
 
 
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Archimedes
 
 

Quotes September 09-10, 2023

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard your call.
Jimmy Buffett,
singer, songwriter, musician, entrepreneur
1946-2023
 
 
 
 
“Music is God’s voice.”
Brian Wilson
 
 
 
 
Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A.C. Benson – 1862-1925 – Essayist-Poet
 
 
 
 
Gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.
Annette Bridges – Cattle Rancher-Magazine Columnist
 
 
 
 
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.
Paramahansa Yogananda – 1983-1952 – First major Indian Teacher to settle in America
 
 
 
 
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from “The Pearl of Orr’s Island”
 
 
 
 
“Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
Ella Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.”
Adam Smith
 
 
 
 
“You have to train your mind as much as your body.”
Venus Williams
 
 
 
 
“The formula for success is simple—practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ballgame. Free speech is life itself.”
Salman Rushdie
 
 
 
 
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
Jack Dempsey
 
 

Quotes September 02, 2023

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch,
writer, philosopher

 
 
 
 
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller – 1880-1968 – Educator-Author-Political Activist
 
 
 
 
“The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.”
Chief Seattle
 
 
 
 
“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.”
Samuel Gompers
 
 
 
 
“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”
Joseph Joubert
 
 
 
 
Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.
Olivia Newton-John – 1948-2022 – Singer-Actress
 
 
 
 
There is no reverse in life, only a future in which you can steer it.
Eric Kizer – Author
 
 
 
 
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank – 1929-1945 – Writer
 
 

Quotes August 28, 2023

But I can’t do any good in this world if I’m a walking, ticking time bomb, ever-ready to scatter the shrapnel of my misdirected emotions.
Lori Deschene,Tiny Buddha
 
 
 
 
“You will end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Now for some lighter thoughts:

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P. G. Wodehouse
 
 
 
 
I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
 
 
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
 
 
 
 
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
 
 
 
 
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
 
 
 
 
My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
 
 
 
 
I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
 
 
 
 
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
Burt Prelutsky
 
 
 
 
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
 
 
 
 
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
Tom Wilson
 
 

Quotes August 22, 2023

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac McCarthy
 
 
 
 
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L’Engle
 
 
 
 
Whatever you want emotionally, you have to start giving away.
Mary Karr
 
 
 
 
Everything in the world began with a yes.
Clarice Lispector
 
 
 
 
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin
 
 
 
 
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
What good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
 
 

Quotes August 10, 2023

“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
 
 
 
 
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”
 
 
 
 
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
Tennessee Williams
 
 
 
 
“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”
Sugar Ray Robinson
 
 
 
 
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
Sigmund Freud
 
 
 
 
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens – 1812-1870 – Writer-Social Critic
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
The comeback is always stronger than the setback.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes August 06, 2023

Shhhh! I’m listening to reason.
I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.
Paul Reubens aka Pee-wee Herman,
actor, comedian
1952-2023
 
 
 
 
There is opportunity to do work that is infused with moral purpose. You don’t have to choose between doing good and doing well.
Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction.
Tim Cook,
chief executive officer of Apple
 
 
 
 
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha Graham – 1894-1991 – Dancer-Choreographer
 
 
 
 
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
François Rabelais
 
 
 
 
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.”
Sidney Poitier
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson