Quotes by Others
Here’s some quotes by OTHER people – that I like [enough to share]:
Isn’t it extraordinary just how extraordinary the ordinary person is?
What are you doing with your dash (between birth and death)?
What you think of me is none of my business.
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand and work with the tools you have. Better tools will be found along the way.
Many of life’s failures are people who do not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison [hang it there!]
Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. Zig Ziglar
Some of my biggest successes were failure that did not happen.
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
~ W. Clement Stone
All progress is change – but not all change is progress.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
~ Hippocrates
It’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. ~ Wayne Dyer
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
What you see reflects your thinking.
Once you’ve tried to change the world you find it’s a whole bunch easier to change your mind.
Happiness isn’t having what you want; it’s wanting what you have.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~ Volaire
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s not a race. It’s a journey. You win by making the most of that journey, not by being first to reach the destination. ~ Dan Klatt
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~ Stacia Tauscher
You’re not in business to provide a service, but to center on and become known for a unique way of interacting with the world.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James
All actions count.
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
~ Les Brown
Do what you can, with what you have where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A true friend is someone who can make us do what we can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try and cheers somebody else up.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ~ Richard Moss
Sometimes you have to break a few eggs – and make a salad. ~ David Stein
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
A rich person is not one who has the most, but it is one who needs the least.
There is only one success: to be able to live your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
The measure of life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. ~ Wayne Dyer
Happiness is meant to be shared.
You don’t get paid by the hour. You get paid based on the value you bring to the hour. ~ Les Brown
So you think money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? ~ Ayn Rand
The phantom money printed out of thin air isn’t worth the digital paper it’s not printed on. ~ Gerald Celente
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
~ Robert Sarnoff
If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.
~ Merriner Eccles (Governor of Federal Reserve 1941)
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley
Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time – because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!
We are all fools whether we dance or not – so we might as well dance!
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
Some people seem to feel that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have ever known have been taught or trained. ~ Fred Astaire
When you judge another, you do not define them; you define yourself. ~ Wayne Dyer
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference. ~ Zig Ziglar
Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.
~ Jim Rohn
Things are to be used and people are to be loved. The problem in today’s world is people are being used and things are being loved.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make that change. ~ Michael Jackson (Man In The Mirror)
We must be(come) the change we wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ~ Rumi
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Entrepreneurs are people who take the cold water thrown on their idea, heat it with enthusiasm, make steam, and push ahead!
Don’t let people deter you from your dreams. Instead, help them achieve theirs!
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. ~ Brian Tracy
One of he best ways to persuade people is by listening to them. ~ Dean Rusk
You can observe a lot just by watching. ~ Yogi Berra
Peeves do not make very good pets. ~ Bo Benett
The way to a man’s heart is through the left ventricle.
Technology should improve your life, not become your life!
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
What is the difference between a coincidence, a synchronicity, and a miracle?
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, be smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell
In case you missed it, today’s not Wednesday – it’s Chooseday!
Don’t just mark time; use it to make your mark!
Practice what you preach, Or better yet, don’t preach; just practice.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ J.K. Rowling
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ~ Anthony Robbins
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~ George Eliot
Life shrinks of expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Anais Nin
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary
It’s not what you call me, but what I answer to.
Instructions for living outside the box are written on the outside of the box. You have to climb out of the box to see them.
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