Motivational sayings for any occasion- part 1
Motivational sayings have always been a part of my life. Whether it was my dad saying "you better get motivated or else" or my mom saying something like "dream big son, the sky is the limit,' I have used motivational sayings for many reasons. Life is truly short and the only chance we have to do something is right now. Unfortunately, holiday season is a time that many people fight depression. If you or someone you know is fighting depression there is help. Call 988 and anonymously talk to someone that can help. I have posted various saying throughout my house to remind myself as well as give my kids something to think about. One of my favorites that I put in my hallway is:
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
Another great quote is:
“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.” ―
Here is a list of quotes I have gathered that will hopefully inspire you and make your life better:
1. Be hard on yourself and life will be easier – Zig Ziglar
2. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
3. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Francis of Assisi
4. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. -Jim Elliot
5. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
6. You must do the things you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost
8. Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. -Desmond Tutu
9. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. -C.S. Lewis
10. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today! -William Allen White
11. I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. -Georgia O'Keefe
12. We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. -Helen Hayes
13. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Robert H. Schuller
14. The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost
15. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. -Han Suyin
16. A place for everything, everything in its place. -Benjamin Franklin
17. I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. -Nikos Kazantzakis
18. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt
19. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas A. Edison
20. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
21. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -Sir Winston Churchill
22. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -Emile Zola
23. Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. -Yoda
24. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Henry Huxley
25. The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed- M. Navratilova
26. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde
27. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson
28. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. -Elbert Hubbard
29. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
30. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
31. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
32. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant
33. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
34. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -Xenocrates
35. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
36. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. -Mahatma Gandhi
37. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
38. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
39. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
40. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. -W.B. Prescott
41. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
42. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. -Billy Sunday
43. If at first you don’t succeed . . . so much for skydiving. -Henny Youngman
44. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
45. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
46. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. -Bill McGlashen
47. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
48. By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong. -Charles Wadsworth
49. Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes? -Unknown
50. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
I would love to hear what your favorite quote or quotes are. Do any of these impact you?
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