Quotes

[heather]

Miss Done's posts of quotes made me think we could try to do a quote thread. If you have an inspirering quote or a few that you wanna share you can post it for everyone to read. It is worth a try...

[heather]

"I can live for two months on a compliment."
Mark Twain

"My dad always used to say, 'If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose.'" Captain John Sheridan

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned" about life: It goes on. Robert Frost

[heather]

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 with only interests." -John Stuart Mill

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"When you're walking through hell, walk faster" - Churchill

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust" TS Eliot

"I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does" The Smiths (Morrissey)

[Done-With-It!]

"As a creative individual, every day each of us has a choice of who we
are going to work with. Are we going to surround ourselves with fellow
creative individuals or are we going to surround ourselves with those
who don't have our best interests at heart"

[Done-With-It!]

Mistakes

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein


Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Con***ius

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
- Zig Ziglar


Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Courage


If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
-Frederick Douglass


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you.
- Zig Ziglar

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
- Jim Rohn

There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.

- Douglas MacArthur

Statistically one hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
- Wayne Gretsky

Self-Esteem


You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb


Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind.
- Zig Ziglar


The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
- Zig Ziglar


Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb


You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
- Zig Ziglar


It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change.
- Charles Darwin

Life/Happiness


Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anonymous


Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- Marcel Proust

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde


Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- William Butler Yeats

Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS,for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
- Anonymous


Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
- Anonymous


It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler


All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- Johann von Goethe

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.
- Zig Ziglar