An Insomniac's "Midnight Quote Therapy"
These just about sum up my current mindset:
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."
-Louisa May Alcott
"You are not in business to be popular."
-Kirstie Alley
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
-Mary Kay Ash
"The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."
-Nancy Astor
"Work is either fun or drudgery; it depends on your attitude. I like fun."
-Colleen C. Barrett
"We are not what we know, but what we are willing to learn."
-Mary Catherine Bateson
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
-Mary McLeod Bethune
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome
"If what I do prove well, it won't advance.
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
-Anne Bradstreet
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge; fitter to bruise than to polish."
-Anne Bradstreet
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
-Harriet Braiker
"Look twice befoer you leap."
-Charlotte Bronte
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
-Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."
-Pearl S. Buck
"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknessess, as unlimited rather than dull & unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."
-Barbara Bush
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
-Barbara Bush
"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
-Christiane Collage
"To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike."
-Diane de Poitiers
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."
-Harriet Woods
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
-Virginia Woolf
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
-Ella Fitzgerald
"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."
-Bette Midler
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
-Indira Gandhi
"Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry & cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
-Irene Kassorla
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
-Lillian Hellman
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
-Harper Lee
"With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models."
-Madeline Hemmings
"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk."
-Shirley Hufstedler
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."
-Erica Jong
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Muriel Strode
"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
-Liz Smith
"Just go out there and do what you have to do."
-Martina Navratilova
"Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses
"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want."
-Madonna
...and that, as they say, is that! =)
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."
-Louisa May Alcott
"You are not in business to be popular."
-Kirstie Alley
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
-Mary Kay Ash
"The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."
-Nancy Astor
"Work is either fun or drudgery; it depends on your attitude. I like fun."
-Colleen C. Barrett
"We are not what we know, but what we are willing to learn."
-Mary Catherine Bateson
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
-Mary McLeod Bethune
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome
"If what I do prove well, it won't advance.
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
-Anne Bradstreet
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge; fitter to bruise than to polish."
-Anne Bradstreet
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
-Harriet Braiker
"Look twice befoer you leap."
-Charlotte Bronte
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
-Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."
-Pearl S. Buck
"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknessess, as unlimited rather than dull & unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."
-Barbara Bush
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
-Barbara Bush
"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
-Christiane Collage
"To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike."
-Diane de Poitiers
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."
-Harriet Woods
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
-Virginia Woolf
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
-Ella Fitzgerald
"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."
-Bette Midler
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
-Indira Gandhi
"Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry & cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
-Irene Kassorla
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
-Lillian Hellman
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
-Harper Lee
"With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models."
-Madeline Hemmings
"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk."
-Shirley Hufstedler
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."
-Erica Jong
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Muriel Strode
"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
-Liz Smith
"Just go out there and do what you have to do."
-Martina Navratilova
"Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses
"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want."
-Madonna
...and that, as they say, is that! =)
posted by Virg. at 11:15 PM
4 Comments:
Really good words of wisdom. Especially for a day like today.
A good quote is like having a piece of banana bread. mmmm, banana bread.
And you can quote me on that.
Phil
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Awesome stuff. Very inspirational.
Here's a few more . . .
"On the darkest night, one can see the brightest stars."
"Circumstances -- what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"It is a weakness to measure everyone and everything by your own impressions and beliefs."
"It's not what you say, it's not what you think, it's not even what you feel. It's what you do."
-Thomas Andrews
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
-Roy Disney
"A dream without a plan is only a wish."
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
-Lou Holtz
"There is no success without hardship."
-Sophocles
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work."
-Thomas Edison
"If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting."
"Do or Do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one."
"There is always room at the top."
"When you lose, say little. When you win, say less."
Age wrinkles the skin. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
-General Douglas McArthur
"Don't react to the situation -- control it."
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Walter Bagehot
"The only sin in life is going against your own integrity."
-D.H. Lawrence
"Love thine enemies, for they are the instruments of your destiny."
-Joseph Campbell
"Everybody makes mistakes, but only losers make excuses."
"Don't be bitter at the success of others. Their status has nothing to do with you, even though you may feel as if it does. There will always be people more successful than you, many of whom are less talented or worthy. That's the nature of existence. Why worry about it? You'll eat yourself up from the inside out, and it won't change a thing. Be happy instead."
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't."
"First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do."
-Epictetus
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
-Winston Churchill
"If you truly love something, you never question the time it takes to nurture it -- be it marriage, hobby, pet, sports, religion, whatever."
-Walt Stanchfield
"Really successful people don't just create opportunities, they create them."
"A dream must be kept undiminished."
"When you cease to dream, you cease to live."
-Malcolm Forbes
"Some people dream of success . . . while others wake up and work hard at it."
A tremendous amount of want-to. That's the difference between success and failure."
"Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them".
And Virginia: when you face obstacles at work or in life, remember the following:
"Fairy Tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
-G.K. Chesterton
Okay, I lied.
Here are a few more:
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley
"Winners compare their achievements with thier goals. Losers compare their achievements with those of others."
"The finest of all human abilities -- and the most difficult -- is merely being reasonable."
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come, you have to get up and make them."
-Madame C.J. Walker
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."
-Florida Scott-Maxwell
"If you don't know what you want from life, what do you think you'll get?"
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"
-Ann Landers
"Fear and uncertainty inhibit success."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We have to be bold. We have to do things that clearly put us out of our personal comfort zones. If you're comfortable, that means you're not growing."
-Robert L. Bailey
"Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in the world."
-Helen Keller, author, lecturer
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, writer
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