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Quotes November 18, 2019

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
 
 
 
 
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
 
 
 
 
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”’
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
Christine Mason Miller
 
 
 
 
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“Think of many things; do one.”
Portuguese proverb
 
 
 
 
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
 
 
 
 
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
 
 
 
 
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller
 
 
 
 
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
 
 
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
Florence Nightingale

Quotes November 10, 2019

Don’t count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb
 
 
 
 
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig
 
 
 
 
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
David M. Burns
 
 
 
 
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Stuart
 
 
 
 
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Virgil Thomson
 
 
 
 
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
 
 
 
 
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin
 
 
 
 
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois
 
 
 
 
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
Ken Kesey
 
 
 
 
“Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.”
Mike Ditka
 
 
 
 
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
Yiddish Proverb

Quotes November 05, 2019

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley,
writer
from “Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus”
 
 
 
 
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
H.P. Lovecraft,
writer
 
 
 
 
You shouldn’t change what you are in the search for success.
Sissy Spacek,
actress
 
 
 
 
I want you to believe … to believe in things that you cannot.
Bram Stoker,
writer
from “Dracula”
 
 
 
 
You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don’t play together the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth,
professional baseball player
 
 
 
 
But out of limitations comes creativity.
Debbie Allen,
actress, dancer, choreographer, director, producer
 
 
 
 
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley,
journalist, newscaster

Quotes November 03, 2019

“Hold on to that fundamental quality of faith. Have faith that on the other side of your pain is something good.”
Dwayne Johnson
 
 
 
 
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“If I don’t train enough, of course I’m nervous.“
Haile Gebrselassie
 
 
 
 
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
Hayley Williams
 
 
 
 
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGil
 
 
 
 
“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.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
Do all the good you can, to as many people as you can, as often as you can.
Unknown

Quotes October 27, 2019

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard
 
 
 
 
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington
 
 
 
 
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil — not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever,
writer
 
 
 
 
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs,
naturalist, nature essayist
 
 
 
 
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
Bill Murray,
actor
 
 
 
 
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler,
writer
 
 
 
 
I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
Tina Turner,
singer, songwriter, performer
 
 
 
 
Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming,
writer, journalist, British naval intelligence officer
 
 
 
 
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
Eva Peron,
former first lady of Argentina
 
 
 
 
Everyone you meet has something to teach you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Thank God for your life tonight. For your health, your family, or your home. Many people don’t have these things.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Good things come to those who wait. But better things come to those who work for it.
Unknown

Quotes October 16, 2019

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
Stephen Jay Gould,
paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, writer
 
 
 
 
Ultimately, we can never change someone else’s behavior — we can only change our own.
Jennifer Lopez,
singer, performer, actress
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Carrie Fisher,
actress, writer
 
 
 
 
Life begins where fear ends.
Osho
 
 
 
 
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown
 
 
 
 
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Vince Lombardi

Quotes October 13, 2019

“If you have respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
John W. Gardner
 
 
 
 
“Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”
Annie Gottlieb
 
 
 
 
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.”
Terry Brooks
 
 
 
 
“It is more profitable to stay aware of trends generally, yet concentrate your energies on simply writing the best novel you know how to write. Don’t chase the market. Write the novel that is in you.”
Jack Bickham, Author & University Professor of Creative Writing program
 
 
 
 
When you look at people who are thriving in their jobs, you notice that they didn’t find them, they made them.
Ashley Goodall,
business executive
 
 
 
 
It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916
 
 
 
 
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
 
 
 
 
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
Franklin P. Jones
 
 
 
 
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
 
 
 
 
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’
Dave Barry
 
 
 
 
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
Phil Pastoret
 
 
 
 
Politicians would be wise to heed what President Harry Truman said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
 
 
 
 
Never give up. Always find a reason to keep trying.
Unknown

Quotes October 12, 2019

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-Rast
 
 
 
 
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
 
 
 
 
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
 
 
 
 
The thing about life is that our emotional experiences, if we don’t finish them, stay with us.
The pain we don’t process can follow us for a lifetime
Brianna Wiest
 
 
 
 
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez,
Dominican American poet, writer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
It takes some courage to stand up and speak; it takes even more courage to open your mind and listen.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Learn to let go, Not everyone in your life is meant to stay.
Unknown

Quotes October 11, 2019

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“The Japanese fought to win – it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
 
 
 
 
“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”
Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education
 
 
 
 
“I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn’t about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
Timothy Ciciora, The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn!
 
 
 
 
“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn’t possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.”
Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
 
 
 
 
“McChrystal’s defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.

So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can’t punish the military because that would make him weak? It’s the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.”
Maureen Dowd
 
 
 
 
“Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

Quotes October 10, 2019

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
Sophocles,
ancient Greek tragedian
 
 
 
 
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
Edwin Hubble,
astronomer who formulated Hubble’s Law of an expanding universe
 
 
 
 
I write to discover what I know.
Flannery O’Connor,
writer
 
 
 
 
I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.
Steven Spielberg,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
If it’s not scary, everyone else would do it.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
Ina Garten,
cookbook author, businesswoman
 
 
 
 
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron,
professional baseball player, right fielder
 
 
 
 
Beauty is much grander than the definition we give it.

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.
Gina Rodriguez, actress
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel Allende,
Chilean American writer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace,
mathematician, founder of scientific computing
 
 
 
 
If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own.
Diahann Carroll, actress, singer, model
1935-2019