Tag: Various

Quotes January 28, 2019

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.
Zechariah Chafee,
judicial philosopher
 
 
 
 
Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
 
 
 
 
There comes a day when you realize that turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Zayn Malik
 
 
 
 
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities, seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden
 
 
 
 
The people who drop you off at home and what until you get inside safely before driving off are the type of friends you need in your lie.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
The only thing complaining does is convince other people that you are not in control.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
We are very good lawyers for our own mistakes, but very good judges for the mistakes of others.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
I choose…
To live by choice, not by chance;
To make changes, not excuses;
To be motivated, not manipulated;
To be useful, not used;
To excel, not to compete;
I choose self-esteem, not self pity.
I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinion of others.
Anonymous

Quotes January 21, 2019

“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”
Ralph Sockman
 
 
 
 
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”
Charles Darwin
 
 
 
 
“For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.”
Drake
 
 
 
 
“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”
John Dryden
 
 
 
 
“If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.”
Erik Erikson
 
 
 
 
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Jean De La Fontaine
 
 
 
 
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“Man is what he believes.”
Anton Chekhov
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
Malcolm X
 
 
 
 
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
Gail Devers
 
 
 
 
“It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”
Karen Marie Moning
 
 
 
 
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.”
Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.”
John Lilly
 
 
 
 
“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”
Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
Julius Caesar
 
 
 
 
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
Anthony Robbins
 
 
 
 
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
Ben Jonson
 
 
 
 
“The burden is equal to the horse’s strength.”
The Talmud
 
 
 
 
“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix’d: ‘t is fix’d as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”
Alexander Pope
 
 
 
 
“God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.”
Edward Bouverie Pusey
 
 
 
 
“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.’ . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.”
Robert W. Service
 
 
 
 
“You can do a thing only if you have the belief that it can be done.”
Anonymous

Quotes January 17, 2019

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly … and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Murasaki Shikibu,
novelist, in The Tale of Genji
 
 
 
 
[W]hen you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
Neil Gaiman,
author, in “Coraline”
 
 
 
 
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
Pablo Casals,
cellist and composer
 
 
 
 
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck,
writer
 
 
 
 
“There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.”
Beverly Sills
 
 
 
 
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet, in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability, to do it anyway.”
Ralph Marston
 
 
 
 
“None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.”
Thomas J. Watson
 
 
 
 
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“There is a comfort in the strength of love: it will make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Once you’ve accepted your flaws no one cause them against you.
Unknown

Quotes January 12, 2019

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G.K. Chesterton,
writer
 
 
 
 
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein,
theoretical physicist
 
 
 
 
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter,
novelist and journalist
 
 
 
 
All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J.D. Salinger,
author
 
 
 
 
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president
 
 
 
 
No man will ever carry out of the presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. president

Quotes January 10, 2019

I have too many flaws to be perfect. But I have too many blessings to be ungrateful.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
We must bring our own light to the darkness.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Don’t let the heart that didn’t love you keep you from the one that will.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
It’s okay to be a glow stick. Sometimes we have to break before we can shine.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Running away from your problems is a race you’ll never win.
Anonymous

Quotes January 08, 2019

Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. As them what problems they want to solve. This changes the conversation from who do I want to work for to what do I need to learn in order to be able to do that.
Jaime Casap
 
 
 
 
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy Sayers,
writer
 
 
 
 
Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.
C. Assaad
 
 
 
 
Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing.
Najwa Zebian
 
 
 
 
Quit saying you don’t have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
Bryant McGill
 
 
 
 
Always walk like you deserve to be right where you are.
Black Lapel
 
 
 
 

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman,
theologian

Quotes December 29, 2018

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everyone sees.
Erwin Schroedinger,
physicist
 
 
 
 
Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.
T. Harv Eker
 
 
 
 
If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both.
Daniel Saint
 
 
 
 
The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.
Adolfo Bioy Casares,
writer
 
 
 
 
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot,
writer
 
 
 
 
I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris,
writer and comedian

Quotes December 13, 2018

You know you’re on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
You don’t need a reason to help people.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
People who shine from within don’t need the spotlight.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
What you tell yourself every day will either lift you up or tear you down.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Kindness is magic.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
No matter how talented, rich or intelligent you are, how you treat animals tells me all I need to know about you.
Unknown

Quotes December 12, 2018

All rules for study are summed up in this one: Learn only in order to create.
Friedrich Schelling,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
If you doubt your power, you give power to your doubts.
Diane von Furstenberg
 
 
 
 
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
Do as you please,
Be true to yourself,
And only then can you be attractive the type of partner you most desire.
Nick Offerman
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Issac Newton
 
 
 
 
Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
E.V.
 
 
 
 
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce and my spirit brave.
Lessons Learned
 
 
 
 
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
 
 
 
 
Do as you please,
Be true to yourself,
And only then can you be attractive the type of partner you most desire.
Nick Offerman
 
 
 
 
Life is a one time offer, use it well.
Unknown

Quotes December 11, 2018

Tomorrow is the most important thing. … It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne,
actor
 
 
 
 
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
Lauren Bacall,
actress
 
 
 
 
You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.
Ann Brashares
 
 
 
 
Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act.
Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people.
Arthur Forman
 
 
 
 
A healthy relationship will inspire you to be more of who are you, not require you to give up who you are.
The SW
 
 
 
 
If you never allow your child to experience failure and disappointment, they will not be equipped to handle adulthood.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Unknown