I’ve been unusually quiet here on this blog. I’ve been really busy (which is nothing new) and mentally distracted (again nothing new).
I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection lately and keep coming back to three of my favorite quotes. I thought I would share them with you. Hopefully you find as much inspiration in them as I do.
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Benjamin Franklin
I have always thought that one man of even moderate abilities can create great change and leave a powerful legacy if he has a good plan, stays focused on it and dedicates his life to making that plan a reality.
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Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Do you have a favorite quote? Please share it with me in the comments.
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“The secret to happiness is freedom, the secret to freedom is courage.”
Posted by Bill Waterfield | 25. Mar, 2009, 8:54 amLately at home my favorite quote is:
“I brought you into this world. I can take you out!” ~ Bill Cosby
Posted by Katy Barrilleaux | 25. Mar, 2009, 9:33 amI (thanks to Evernote) am a great collector of quotes too. Some of my favorites (that I think YOU will like):
Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took trying to avoid it.
–Clive Owen
If a brilliant idea is rejected by smart people, it wasn’t sold effectively. –Ross Fishman
Courage is the Greatest of all virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. — Samuel Johnson
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sarah Palin is in ur base killin ur d00ds. — Tac Anderson
Posted by Steve Nipper | 26. Mar, 2009, 7:50 pmI want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science, Section 276
Posted by Wyatt Werner | 27. Mar, 2009, 7:24 amI have several, and not surprisingly a couple come from Ben Franklin:
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
~Ben Franklin
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ~Ben Franklin
There is more to life than watching others live it. ~unknown
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ~Epictetus
Never forget where you came from, and always reach back. ~Larry Winters
Posted by Amybeth | 05. Apr, 2009, 1:41 pmOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
in Return to Love
Posted by Cherie | 31. Jul, 2009, 12:29 am