Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Inspirational quotes (Part 11)



 It's been a few weeks into January.  Does anyone here make New Year's resolutions and keep them?  Here's some motivation:

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” -Walter Lippman

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream…” C.S Lewis

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” –Louis Pasteur

“It’s so strange and beautiful to have actors say my words that it sort of blows my mind.” –Hannah Moscovitch, playwright of This is War

“We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.” –Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French author

“We tell lies when we are afraid…afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” –Tad Williams

“Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.” –Marquis de Vauvenargues (French writer.  1717-47)

“Have a positive mental attitude and to keep on keeping on.” –Michael Budman

“My father was a house painter who, with great pride would photograph the walls he painted.  The lesson I took from that was: Find the art in what you do.” –Bob Martin (On TV show Michael)

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”-Peter Mansbridge

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” –John Dryden

“Expressing ourselves allows the creation of unlimited wealth and abundance.  Doing what we enjoy and being the people we are born to be are the triggers for a meaningful life.” – from book Instructions for Happiness and Success by Susie Pearl 

“Wealth, in general, cannot prevent bad things from happening.  However, wealth used wisely and proactively can increase the odds of good things happening.” –Jason Heath (financial planner and writer for the National Post)

“The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.”- Paul Auster, American author

“An original idea.  That can’t be too hard.  The library must be full of them.” –Stephen Fry

“I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner.  We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be if I grow up.”-Lenny Bruce

“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people.  Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” –Gen. George S. Patton

“70% of success is just showing up.” –Woody Allen

“A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.” –Anthony Trollope

“I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.” –Mike Myers

“I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.” –Marshall McLuhan

“Never make predictions, especially about the future.” –Casey Stengel

“Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”-Ben Franklin

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil… preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and the love we give our fragile craft.”-Adlai Stevenson

“Logic will take you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.” –Albert Einstein

“Forget about style.  Worry about the results.”- Bobby Orr

“So sad and there are many like her. Searching but not finding and while money helps today it sure doesn't bring peace of mind, heart or fill the emptiness inside.” -Joyce, a comment on Amy Winehouse's death Yahoo article


“He (psych professor) said, ‘Allison you already know where you’re going.  So if you get a C on a psych test, it’s not going to be the end of the world.  The choice is yours.’  It was one of the most empowering, thoughtful things I’ve ever heard from someone.  The fact that our actions can tells us what we want.  You realize, ‘Oh, I must care about this, and not about that.’  I think about that daily.  I really, really do.
This is the time when you realize and recognize some things about yourself.  And then the question is, are you woman enough to deal with them?  To live the rest of your life being aware of your flaws, and dealing with them on a daily basis- correcting the ones that affect other people, and working around or learning to love the ones that don’t.” 

-Allison Williams (actress on the TV show Girls.)

“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.” –Mark Twain

“Hypothetical questions allow you to imagine multiple worlds of possibility without any material consequences unlike “Would you like more whip cream on that?”  Nobody gets hurt.  Nobody gets fat.  And they’re not divisive like, say, “Who are you voting for?”  Or, “What did you think of Django Unchained?”  According to Freud, imaginative thinking comes first in the mental development of a child, while realistic thinking emerges only later.

What is love if not the willingness to, against all reason, indulge someone?  I mean, if someone you cared about asked you to answer a question that made no sense at all, wouldn’t you?”  -Jonathan Goldstein

“No, no, I do have a favorite (entry).  It’s based purely on the quote, because to me it sums up not only the book, but an attitude we all need to have toward life.  It’s a man named Mathieu Pitkevicht from Paris, and he said, ‘The winds of fortune tend to favor the sails of those who politely yell out to it, ‘Nice to meet you!’  I think it’s a motto for life, really.”  -Nabil Sabio Azadi, author of For You the Traveller

I got the following quotes from this site:


“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can´t have it.” – Robert Anthony

“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams.” -Stuart Wilde

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” - J.M. Power

“Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars.” – Les Brown

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” – George Burns

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ – George Bernard Shaw

“We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.” Donald Curtis

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” – Douglas Everett

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward

“Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.” – Lucas Hellmer

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. – Greg Anderson

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy

“It’s not where you’re from; it’s where you’re going. It’s not what you drive; it’s what drives you. It’s not what’s on you; it’s what’s in you. It’s not what you think; it’s what you know.” – Gatorade commercial

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7
“It is in the moment of your decisions that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu

“Whatever you find hardest to do, do with all your heart. – Dalai Lama

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” – Tony Robbins

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Never confuse motion with action. “ – Benjamin Franklin

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucious.

“You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.” – John Wooden

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Raymond Chandle

“Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley

“The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE.” Dennis S Brown

“We are what we think. All that we are arises. With our thoughts, we make our world.” – Buddha

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Ben Sweetland

“Don´t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

“Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.” – Paulo Coelho

“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” – Paulo Coelho

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“Live with passion!” – Tony Robbins

 "I have a theory: anything that we do on the outside has to have happened first on the inside. Before I could go to graduate school, I had to become the sort of person who could go to graduate school. I’ve always found that the internal change precedes the external one. When I tried to go to graduate school before I was ready, it didn’t work.

I think the same thing happens with a novel: in order to write a particular novel, you have to become the sort of person who can write that novel. And of course the process of writing the novel changes you as well. But you have to become the writer. The novel comes out of the writer that you are, and if you’re not ready, the novel won’t work." -Theodora Goss


“The limits of your world are the limits of your language, and it’s long past time to make your world as large as it actually is.” -onlinebusinessdegree.org

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it home.” –Rumi (1207-73), Persian poet


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