A Few Good Words For Inspiration
I thought we all could use a hearty dose of good, old-fashioned common sense and inspiration. So here are 31 thoughts to help you make it through the month.
We cannot change the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
- anonymous
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein
Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first and then the lesson.
- Unknown
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Transition is the process between old and new reality.
- anonymous
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Joan Didion
"I think I can...I think I can."
- The Little Engine That Could
People are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
- Epictetus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within myself there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Look and you will find it -what is unsought will go undetected.
- Sophocles
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
- Mae West
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- Seneca
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our scary adventures.
- Susan Jeffers
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Buy low, sell high.
- anonymous
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you always do what you always did- you'll always get what you always got.
- anonymous
A problem well-defined is half-solved.
- John Dewey
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.
- Satchel Paige
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Colette
Surviving means being born over and over.
- Erica Jong
Even monkeys fall out of trees.
- Japanese proverb
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence
- Abigail Adams
Goodness had nothing to do with it.
- Mae West
Changing the frame changes the picture
- A famous career coach
You make your own luck.
- A famous career coach
Reality is somewhere in the middle between
absolute failure and absolute perfection.
- A famous career coach
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