Quotes We Love
I am a huge fan of quotes! I find them inspiring, educational, and comforting. I can generally find a quote to cover almost every circumstance in my life and to give me hope. Here are some of my favorites:
When you bring your heart and your mind to your intention, there is nothing you can’t accomplish.
-Jillian (The Biggest Loser, 2008)
The world is a great book…They who never stir from home read only a page.
-St. Augustine
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Lao Tzu
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.
-René Descartes
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
-John Steinbeck
Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.
-Hodding Carter
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost
Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
-Dale Carnegie
I will speak ill of no man…and speak all the good I know of everybody.
-Benjamin Franklin
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
-Charles Schwab
I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
-Old saying; taken from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
-Henry Ford
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
-Alfred Adler
Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual…
-Elbert Hubbard
If I had life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would go to more dances and ride more merry-go-rounds.
-Nadine Stair, at age 81
God is not proud…He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything to him.
-C.S. Lewis
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
-C.S. Lewis
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill
To understand the world you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
-William Faulkner
I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.
-Margaret Thatcher
If I had life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would go to more dances and ride more merry-go-rounds.
- Nadine Stair at age 81
Aren’t the ‘good things that come to those who wait’ just the leftovers from the people that got there first?
- Coffee News
Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet.
- Coffee News
