Motivational Quotes 4/26/23

Some mistakes made in youth we are left to pay for the rest of our lives.

The young look forward; the old look backward.

We are both the main character and the audience to our own life.

Depriving yourself of what you don’t truly enjoy, is in fact a unique pleasure.

It is better to go down swinging than watch yourself strike out.

You may miss many, but then you hit a home run.

If fate exists, it must apply not just to every human, but to every spec of sand in the desert.

History is like a fine wine; it gets better with age.

The classics may survive the test of time but never by much.

Mistakes will happen. You can’t prevent all of them. Focus on the reaction, not just prevention.

Motivational Quotes 3/24/23

Happiness is almost never pure; usually it stems from a sort of pressure, that also creates discomfort or even pain in some other way.

When sick, let time do its healing

Setting dictates action

The young wish to be old; the old wish to be young.

Good luck doesn’t catch you; only bad luck catches you. (mom)

Half of happiness is on the inside; the other half is on the outside.

Don’t judge someone by where he comes from; judge him by who he is.

Happiness is in the here and now.

Give a man work and give him his purpose.

The future belongs to the ones who prepare for it today. (Malcolm X)

Motivational Quotes 3/3/23

When a calamity is supposed to happen, what is not supposed to happen will, serving as a saving grace, preventing the calamity.

No one wants you when you’re down; people only want you when you’re up

We rejoice in public; we suffer in private

Each person has a unique form of good and a unique form of bad.

We help one another not only by words but also by our example; by being good ourselves we set an example for others to follow.

What is not worth mending, is not worth minding. Don’t sweat the small stuff.

The fight for survival is the fight for place. They who have a good place fight to keep it; they who have a bad one fight to improve it. When two people want the same place, conflict occurs.

It is in occupation that we forget the pains of the day.

Right Activity plus right amount equals a good day.

Happiness is earned through effort and sometimes through hardship.

Motivational Quotes 2/10/23

Joy is happiness for no reason. -popular

It is in seeing others go about their day that we get the courage to go on with our own.

You have to leave home to be successful – popular
You don’t have to leave home to be successful. -Martin Sensemeyer (actor)

Life is not a blank page. While it is unscripted, it is full of roles-first, last, insider, outsider, rich, poor-and our relationships, how well we get along with each other, stem not just from our innate natures, but from whether our societal roles stand in alliance with or in opposition to one another.

We all know what others should do with their lives. It is in our own life that we do not know what to do with.

Your goals are reachable if you can think practically, if you can be patient, and if you can work hard

Do you think my friend anyone escapes his fate? -Herman Hesse (Siddhartha)

You do fit in, if you believe you do -Jeremy Linn (Basketball player)

Gifted people don’t do hard things well; they make hard things easy to do, and then they do them

It’s the look that makes one beautiful, not just the face

Motivational Quotes 1/6/23

Objects up close may not be what they seemed from afar

Success and failure are both teachers; success teaches you what to do. Failure teaches you what not to do.

It is your peers who are best suited to like you; it is they who are best suited to judge you

Whenever an excess is created in on direction, a deficiency is created in the opposite direction

The young appreciate the wisdom of theirs elders, simply because they haven’t had enough time and maturity to discover the same wisdom out for themselves

Life is an unending series of actions and reactions

All the good opportunities find you in the beginning, when you are not ready to take a risk; by the time you are ready to take a risk, there are no good opportunities left.

The mortal flaw of perfectionism is strictness; holding oneself and others to far too strict a standard that can never be met.

Wherever a good occurs in excess, a bad also occurs in excess.

He who does not look for signs does not see them; only he who looks for them sees them.

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Motivational Quotes 9/19/22

We should be better now than we were five years ago – Joel Osteen

Science can never provide me with faith, just as faith can never provide me with science.

Maybe its always been hard, maybe it always will be hard. . . with a bit of joy in between

If you put something in the right place, what you misplaced will turn up.

Perhaps God has a master plan that only he understands -Depeche Mode

Success is about the effort, not the outcome.

We are victim to our own perception.

One’s worth is not founded upon success or popularity, but rather on his who he is.

You can’t change the world… but you can change a small part of it

To have purpose is to live; life is purpose

History is not over.*

Normality is the most beautiful of all things.*

*Robert Kaplan

Motivational Quotes 6/17/21

Where there is an inspiration there is a way.

What is now written on stone was once written on paper

You are appreciated where you belong.

You wanted all but you can’t have it

If you send good out; expect good in. If you send bad out; expect bad in.

The soul always shines through; When you feel happy on the inside, you look good on the outside.

You can do the right thing and still fail.

The first time we go some place we see all its virtues; the next time all its faults.

Money should never change one’s values … Making money is only a report card. – WW Allan (businessman)

Always keep reaching for more

The genius must suffer his own genius; A keen perception comes with its own price.

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(Albanian)

Aty ku ka një frymëzim ka një mënyrë.

Ajo që tani shkruhet në gur, dikur shkruhej në letër

Jeni të vlerësuar aty ku bëni pjesë.

Ju dëshironit të gjitha, por nuk mund t’i keni

Nëse dërgoni të mira; prisni të mirën. Nëse dërgoni të keqen jashtë; prini te keqen.

Shpirti shkëlqen gjithmonë; Kur ndihesh i lumtur nga brenda, dukesh mirë nga jashtë.

Ju mund të bëni gjënë e duhur dhe prapë të dështoni.

Herën e parë që shkojmë në një vend, shohim të gjitha virtytet e tij; herën tjetër të gjitha gabimet e saj.

Paratë nuk duhet të ndryshojnë kurrë vlerat e dikujt… Të bësh para është vetëm një kartë raporti. – WW Allan (biznesmen)

Gjithmonë vazhdoni të arrini për më shumë

Gjeniu duhet të vuajë gjenialitetin e tij; Një perceptim i mprehtë vjen me çmimin e vet.

Motivational Quotes 5/20/22

We are all characters in God’s play.

Courage is not eliminating fear. Courage is not letting fear eliminate hope. – Grace, child cancer patient

When we aren’t willing to take a risk, we never start in the first place. -Mallory Weggemann

Memory is the sign of life. If we did not have memories could we prove we had ever lived?

I remember, therefore I am.

The universe has a way of pairing up people who belong together.

Most people, you’ll never meet; do good unto those you are with.

The old days always are good, even if at the time, they were bad

Luck suits the person and the personality.

Luck goes after its own kind. The good adds itself onto the good. The bad adds itself upon the bad.

Motivational Quotes 3/25/22

We seek nothing directly; everything comes to us indirectly.

Opportunity calls for guts

Where there is no courage there can be no success.

Actions engender feelings. Bold acts engender boldness. Timid acts engender timidity.

Don’t strive for perfection. Strive to accept your flaws.

There is always an excuse for not succeeding. There is never an excuse for not trying.

Happiness is in the here and now.

Are broken people stronger than before?*

Your limitations are the only ones you create*

If you are waiting and waiting for the right time to do something you’ve always wanted, you’re just procrastinating. The right time will never come. The time becomes right when you make yourself begin.

*Mallory Weggemann

Motivational Quotes 1/28/22

There is a buildup to luck; once a special event occurs, luck is spent, and it takes time to build luck up again.

The objective to life is to fulfill your destiny.

It doesn’t matter what others may think of us; it only matters what we think of ourselves.

Be fair to others; be fair to yourself. Judge not others; judge not thy own self.

To start is always the hardest part.

Everything starts off with enthusiasm; the trick is to keep going when the enthusiasm wears off.

Work makes rest better. Rest makes work better.

How am I to get through this day? And only this day.

Cope, manage, deal.