Tag: Various

Quotes August 13, 2019

It is our failure to become of our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.
Conan O’Brien
 
 
 
 
Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.
Paulo Coelho,
Brazilian novelist
 
 
 
 
Saying it again for emphasis:
Must never be operated for profit:
1) Healthcare
2) Prisons
3) Education

Those correspond exactly with:
1) Life
2) Liberty
3) The Pursuit of Happiness
Jess Phoenix
 
 
 
 
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
Ziad K. Abdelnour,
Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
 
 
 
 
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
What did father use to say? Everything before the word “but” is horse shit.
Jon Snow
 
 
 
 
“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.”
John Mayer
 
 
 
 
Anything that is “wrong” with you began as a survival mechanism in childhood.
Dr. Gabor Maté
 
 
 
 
Discipline is doing what needs to be done even though you don’t want to.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
You can’t force a person to show you respect, but you can refuse to be disrespected.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
If today was perfect there would be no need for tomorrow.
Anonymous

Quotes August 12, 2019

If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
Edward Albee,
playwright
 
 
 
 
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It’s so easy in the past tense.
Sarah Dessen,
writer
 
 
 
 
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Sir Alexander Fleming,
physician, scientist who discovered penicillin
 
 
 
 
When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.
Bruce Mao,
designer
 
 
 
 
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.
David Lynch,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
Research is a matter of overcoming obstacles.
Alexander Dalgarno,
physicist, known as the father of molecular astrophysics
 
 
 
 
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising.
John Muir,
naturalist, writer, conservationist
 
 
 
 
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Lucy Maud Montgomery,
writer
 
 
 
 
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss,
social anthropologist
LinkedIn
 
 
 
 
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Andrei Tarkovsky,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie,
industrialist, business magnate, philanthropist
 
 
 
 
You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.
Faith Ringgold,
artist
 
 
 
 
Generosity is the best investment.
Diane von Furstenberg,
fashion designer

Quotes August 10, 2019

We stopped checking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside of us.
Charles Darwin
 
 
 
 
Be who you needed when you were younger.
Ayesha Siddiqi
 
 
 
 
There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
 
 
 
 
“We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.”
Jacob Nordby
 
 
 
 
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton
 
 
 
 
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.
Osho
 
 
 
 
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo Proverb
 
 
 
 
If you want to get fit, you have to give away only one thing. Your excuses.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Realize how blessed you are.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
I feel bad for the people who never go crazy.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Create a life that feels good on the inside. Not one that just looks good on the outside.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.
Anonymous

Quotes August 03, 2019

The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 
Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!
Eric Thomas
 
 
 
 
No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
Maya Mendoza
 
 
 
 
An idiot with a plan can beat a genius with out a plan.
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
His upward path will require us to climb. My mother used to say to me when I complained that things were hard, “If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.” And as the world becomes darker and more dangerous, we must keep climbing. It will be our choice whether or not to move up or to stay where we are.
Elder Henry B. Eyring
 
 
 
 
There is no lack of time. There is a lack of interest. Because when people really want, dawn becomes day, Tuesday becomes Saturday and every moment becomes an opportunity.
Pedro Bial.
 
 
 
 
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Things that excite you are not random. They are connected to your purpose. Follow them.
Unknown

Quotes July 25, 2019

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas,
artist
 
 
 
 
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Bette Davis,
actress
 
 
 
 
Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?
Alphonse Daudet,
writer
 
 
 
 
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi,
biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, the first to isolate vitamin C
 
 
 
 
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein,
writer

Quotes July 16, 2019

The Greatest Prison that People Live in is the Fear of What Other People Think.
Louise Armstrong.
 
 
 
 
“Making mistakes is a natural consequence of free will. If you want to be perfect and live a life without mistakes, then you must give up your freedom. Perfection is the most self-damaging mistake you can make because it robs you of your humanity.”
Emily Maroutian
 
 
 
 
A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals.
People on a path of purpose don’t have time for drama.
Brendon Burchard
author of The Charge
 
 
 
 
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
Don Herold
 
 
 
 
“The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun, and burn.”
William C. Hannan
 
 
 
 
Comfort is a drug.
Once you get used to it, it becomes addicting.
Give a weak man consistent sex, good food, cheap entertainment and he’ll throw his ambitions right out the window.
The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but it’s more difficult to regret.
Anonymous

Quotes July 15, 2019

It’s not your job to like me. It’s mine.
Byron Katie
 
 
 
 
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Christopher Benson
 
 
 
 
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
 
 
 
 
People rarely succeed unless they are having fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Remember life’s greatest lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Facebook.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Laughing is the best calorie burner.
Anonymous

Quotes July 10, 2019

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
 
 
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Goethe
 
 
 
 
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
If you don’t see your own worth, you will always choose people who don’t see it either.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
No response is a response. And it’s a powerful one. Remember that.
Unknown

Quotes July 09, 2019

True heroism … is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe,
tennis player
 
 
 
 
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller,
playwright and essayist, in “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”
 
 
 
 
hey always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol,
artist, director and producer
 
 
 
 
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
 
 
 
 
Be happy with what you have while you pursue what you want.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Hating someone makes them important. Forgiving them makes them obsolete.
Unknown

Quotes July 06, 2019

“Find the right partner when you can. Life is often unforgiving, having someone you love to share it with is invaluable.”
Jonathan Grey
 
 
 
 
“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.”