Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Jun 7, 2012

Go with the flow...

 My mantra after having moved cities with nothing but a wish and a prayer:

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Amen, brother.

 

Nov 30, 2011

Hear, hear!


"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln












"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
-Henry David Thoreau

Sep 26, 2011

Loved this quote



If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

-Norman Vincent Peale

Aug 15, 2010

Abso-frickin-lutely

I am too positive to be doubtful. Too optimistic to be fearful. And too determined to be defeated.
- Unknown

Jun 16, 2010

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

-Jack London

Apr 12, 2010

Keep quoting

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.
-- Cecil Selig

The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes



There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.


-- Nelson Mandela



The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow... Perhaps it all will.
-- Albert Einstein

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller

Poetry quotes?

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men & women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
-- Conrad Hilton


Let your light shine.
Be a source of strength and courage.
Share your wisdom.
Radiate love.
-- Wilferd Peterson

Quotes and quotes and quotes...

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
- Robert Schuller

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.
- Richard Branson

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Stevie Wonder

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James

Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.
- Adabella Radici

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- J.D. Rockefeller

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George W. Carver


A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
- Jack Dempsey

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
--
Shmuley Boteach

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extend your heart and your hand and your soul will be satisfied.
-- Unknown

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-- Dr. Seuss

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
-- Lawrence M. Miller

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
--
Steve Allen

The reality of life is that your perceptions--right or wrong--influence everything else you do.
-- Roger Birkman


Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
-- Anonymous

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
-- William Shakespeare

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


In the confrontation between the stream & the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
-- H.Jackson Brown

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis

The past is lost to you forever, and the future isn't yet yours. Now is the only time you own. Use it well.
-- Unknown

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
-- Goethe

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.
-- Carl Bard

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
-- William Arthur Ward

If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet.
-- Arnot L. Sheppard

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin

Mar 8, 2010

More quotes abound!

Thank you ChangeJourney on Twitter!

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi

If you're interested, you'll do what's convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. -- --John Assaraf

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have 1 less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. --Jim Rohn

There are no failures--just experiences and your reactions to them. --Tom Krause

Our life is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify. --Henry David Thoreau

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. --William Ward

Life is like riding a bike; to keep your balance, you have to keep moving forward. --Albert Einstein

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. --Unknown

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --André Gide

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. --Abraham Lincoln

May 4, 2009

New Quote

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. - Seneca

Mar 17, 2009

You always have choices

Conditions cannot completely condition us. Everything can be taken from us, but the last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude, can never be taken away. - Victor Frankl

Mar 10, 2009

Quote time!

Two quotes from two extrordinary women:

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
- MAYA ANGELOU

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."
- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I will hold my hand up and admit the second one actually got my attention when used in the movie KUNG FU PANDA. Hey, you gotta listen to the message no matter who the messenger is...