Here are some of my favorite quotations, shared simply to add a little positive perspective, thoughtful inspiration, and motivational wisdom to your day...
Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
— Heraclitus
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
— Paulo Coelho
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.
— Graham Parker
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love, and do what you like.
— Saint Augustine
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
— Thomas Jefferson
Everything always works out for the best in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.
— Anonymous
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
— Dale Carnegie
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future; and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present, all time is nonredeemable.
— TS Eliot
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that only exists as an idea.
— Buddha
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether you think you can or think you can't---you are right.
— Henry Ford
Love, and do what you like.
— Saint Augustine
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
— Tommy Lasorda
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
— Yogi Berra
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
— William Jennings Bryant
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas Edison
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
— Anonymous
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
— Plato
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
— Baruch Spinoza
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
— Auguste Rodin
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
— John Quincy Adams
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
— Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
If we do not try, we will not know.
— Ayya Khema
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
— Helen Walton
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
— Jonathan Winters
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
— Sallust
I'm an idealist.
I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
— Carl Sandburg
Our only security is our ability to change.
— John Lilly
Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
— Dizzy Dean
The wise man sets no high value on a thing simply because it is hard to get.
— Tao te Ching
Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune, wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.
— Josei Toda
The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all.
— Shakymuni
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist ever has.
— Michelangelo
The greatest glory in living lies not in ever falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Nelson Mandela
If you are not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
— Lou Whitaker
Live fully in every moment and you will come to every day without regrets.
— Dr. Carl Hammershlag
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
— Victoria Lincoln
There is nothing that cannot happen today.
— Mark Twain
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
— Miles Davis
I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.
— Hillel
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
— TS Eliot
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
— JC Watts
First thought, best thought.
— Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Do not look for the truth.
Only cease to cherish opinions.
— Sengstan
If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?
— David Whyte
Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific; 'progress' is ethical;
change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
— Bertrand Russell
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
— Victor Hugo
What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
If you're going through hell, keep going!
— Winston Churchill
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
— Thomas Carlyle
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
— Tommy Lasorda
Be the change your wish to see in the world.
— Gandhi
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
— Leroy Satchel Paige
You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm.
— Collette
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief can take care of itself: but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
— Nietzsche
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
— Henry Miller
In the space between past and future, having and losing, knowing and not knowing,
lies an opportunity for growth and revelation.
— Francesca Fremantle
Whatever you do or dream you can do — begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
— Goethe
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
— Goethe
Love what you do.
— George Hasslein, FAIA, Dean,
School of Architecture, Cal Poly SLO, 1968-1983
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
— Martin Luther
May you live in safety, be healthy, be happy, and live at ease.
— Buddhist Metta (Prayer)
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions,
everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.
We need to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.
— Pema Chodron
Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
— Helen Keller
Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
— Pierce Harris
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
— John F. Kennedy
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
Be a light unto yourself, a refuge unto yourself.
— Buddha
Proceed as the path allows.
— Quaker proverb
Whatever you are, be a good one.
— Abraham Lincoln
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway
So within, without.
— Susan Shippey
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
— Thomas Merton
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Faster, faster, faster ─ until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do, you apologize for the truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.
— Will Rogers
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
— John Cleese
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand, because those are the only good things.
— Andy Warhol
There is no limit what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.
— Robert Woodruff
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
— Sir Laurence Olivier
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great an honorable course with sure hope and trust in itself.
— Cicero
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but which is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
— Goethe
