Here are some quotes to help us birth the Future. If you have others you'd like to add, please let me know. When this post goes off my front page, I will put a link to it on the front page, because these are wise words that can help us, and between you and me, we will be updating this post often.
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes given a chance.
- James A. Autry
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death.
-Betty Bender
You are enough. There's no need to waste your energy, in trying to be someone else. No one is better than you. And what you do best, is being you. Wishing or pretending you're something that you're not, robs precious time and energy from being the best you can be. There's plenty of cause for joy, in the person that you are. To be your best, be yourself. No one sees the world, in quite the same way as you. No one cares, or loves, or gives, like you. You have something very special to offer. There are things you were meant to do. Be the best that you can be, by finding and mastering the art of being you.
-Ralph Marston
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-Seneca
Each of us is a unique, creative individual. But we often blur that uniqueness with sugar, alcohol, drugs, overwork, underplay, bad relations, toxic sex, underexercise, over-TV, undersleep – many and varied forms of junk food for the soul.
-Julia Cameron
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite steadily, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
- Anton Chekhov
Did you ever consider that God puts longings in our hearts in order that we execute them?
- Anonymous
God has promised forgiveness to your repentence; but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
- St. Augustine
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: There will be earth to stand on , or you will be given wings to fly.
- Unknown
Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf.
- Barbara Sher
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more commonplace than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Writing is like driving at night. You cannot see beyond your headlights…but you can make the whole trip that way.
- E.L. Doctorow
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Why be content to crawl, when we were born with wings. It's time we learn to fly.
- Daniel Whiteside
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
It does not matter if today's results do not show. They will in time.
- Tracy from Flylady
Added November 18, 2006
I realize that making myself a better, strong, more aware person will affect those around me and perhaps others through them.
- Rebecca Latimer
I learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Added December 2, 2006:
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. - Lewis Thomas
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. - Milton
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. - Hippocrates
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genus, power and magic in it.” – W. H. Murray, the Scottish Himalayan Expedition
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Nietzsche
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. – John Wesley
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Thoreau
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. – Putarch
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? – Robert Browning
The tendency of man’s nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. – Mencius
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
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