Ecouraging Thoughts and Quotes
Below are some inspiring thoughts and quotes sent by HIANN friend Craig Phillips. Here’s the link to the full article and Craig’s website: https://secondchancetolive.org/2023/06/21/thoughts-and-quotes-that-encourage-and-inspire-me-to-create/
“Big things have small beginnings.” Prometheus
Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, it’s very hard
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe Ruth
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Lao Tzu
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” Abraham Lincoln
“You are the only person on Earth who can use your ability.” Zig Ziglar
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Auguste Rodin
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison
“Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” Bear Bryant
“Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.” Zig Ziglar
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” Guy Finley
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.” Daya
“It is not that I am so smart. It is just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” Tim Fargo
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add specifically your own creation.” Bruce Lee
“When setting out on a journey, do not see the advice of someone who has never left home.” Rumi
“Don’t judge your day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“The most common way people give away their power is by thinking that they have any.” Alice Walker
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.” Wilfred A. Peterson
“Those who danced were considered to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” Albert Schweitzer
“Our circumstances are not meant to keep us down, but they are meant to build us up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Zig Ziglar
“We must be willing to let go of the life that we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” E.M. Foster
“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.” Charles K. Kao
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmon
“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s OK. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.” Banksy
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” Carl Bard
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more, to become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
“If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life that you have imagined…you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
“Insist on yourself, never imitate. Your own gift you can present with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.” Henry David Thoreau
“In my experience, I have found that adversity is what has made me successful because I refused to give up because of adversity.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes
“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful. That I was not going to be competitive. And the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do is shrug and say, “We’ll just have to see.” Dick Fosbury (Inventor of the Fosbury Flop and winner of the gold medal in the Olympics
“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’ see it. Listen to your own drum and your own drum only. It is the one that makes the sweetest sound.” Simon Sineck
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always to that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain