Inspirational Quotes - Page 26

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Change, Positive, Encouraging

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Life, Success, Believe

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2011

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• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Success, Graduation

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, What Matters, Important

  "Phenomenal: 12 Pearls of Wisdom From Maya Angelou" by Tai Goodwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

  Wilson Mizner

  Success, Graduation, Nice

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, is said to have remarked, "You don't have to be nice to people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again."

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• Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

  William James

  Life

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

  Bill Murray

  Blood, Giving, Donation

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

  Amelia Earhart

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Graduation, Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Motivational, Change, Graduation

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Powerful, Suicidal

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 16, 2012

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• You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 17, 2011

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Life, Inspiring, Success

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Relationship, Happiness

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, War, Challenges

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Positive, Inspiring

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• While you teach, you learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teach

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