Tag: Inspiration

Quotes May 21, 2019

Courtesy of Everyday Power Blog

“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
Langston Coleman
 
 
 
 
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
Kyle Chandler
 
 
 
 
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney Harris
 
 
 
 
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
Joe Girard
 
 
 
 
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
Maureen Dowd
 
 
 
 
“It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
 
 
“The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm.”
Malcolm Forbes
 
 
 
 
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
 
 
 
 
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
 
 
 
 
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”
Franklin P. Jones
 
 
 
 
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
Isaac Asimov
 
 
 
 
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote

 
 
 
 
“Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
Tom Lehrer

Quotes December 27, 2018

“Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“As a winner, learn not to let negative comments affect you. Just treat it as firewood that feeds your fire. Soon that fire will be so big and so bright that those who criticized you will smell the smoke, even if they happen to be on the other side of the world.”
Kevin Abdulrahman
 
 
 
 
“All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.”
Jaymin Shah
 
 
 
 
“If it comes easy, it will go fast.”
Andrena Sawyer
 
 
 
 
“We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.”
Farshad Asl
 
 
 
 
“Take a leap of faith on your dreams, not for me and not for the society, just for yourself.”
Vinay Garg
 
 
 
 
“Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever. Just do you.”
Surgeo Bell
 
 
 
 
“Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.”
Constance Friday
 
 
 
 
“You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.”
Stephen C. Hogan
 
 
 
 
“If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.”
Henry Rollins

Quotes August 15, 2018

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James,
philosopher and psychologist
 
 
 
 
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
M. Antoniinus
 
 
 
 
“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
 
 
 
 
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
 
 
 
 
There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER
 
 
 
 
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his father as to when they could discuss his use of the car.

His father said he’d make a deal with his son, “You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little and get your hair cut.

Then we’ll talk about the car. ”

The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he’d settle for the offer and they agreed on it.

After about six weeks his father said, “Son, you’ve brought your grades up and I’ve observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I’m disappointed you haven’t had your hair cut. ”

The boy said, “You know, Dad, I’ve been thinking about that, and I’ve noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair, and there’s even strong evidence that Jesus had long hair. ”

The Dad’s reply: “Did you also notice that they all walked everywhere they went?

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Quotes August 14, 2018

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
Mary Manin Morrissey
 
 
 
 
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
Roopleen
 
 
 
 
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
 
 
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness.”
Landon Parham
 
 
 
 
“Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn’t need darkness to be luminous.”
Gwen Hayes
 
 
 
 
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Simone Weil
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”
Carrie Hope Fletcher
 
 
 
 
“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”
Amit Ray
 
 
 
 
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
J. K. ROWLING