Which if any of these quotes has meaning for you?
And which ones have you heard so often that they go in one ear and out the other?
“A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can’t.”
- Jack Dempsey
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
-Vince Lombardi
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don’t change.”
- Jane Goodall
“Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.”
- Unknown
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
- Grace Pulpit
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
- Albert Einstein
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”
- Whoopi Goldberg
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
- Confucius
“And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be”
- Lennon & McCartney
“It is never too late to become what you might have become.”
- George Eliot
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. ”
- Albert Einstein
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
“May you live all the days of your life.”
- Jonathan Swift
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
- Maya Angelou
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
- Stephen Covey
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
“Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.”
- W. Clement Stone
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
- Lao Tzu
“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
- Whoopi Goldberg
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
- Henry Ford
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy”
- Dale Carnegie
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
- Lloyd Jones
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
- Robert Schuller
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
- Lewis Cass
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
- Lou Holtz
“The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.”
- Malcolm F. MacNeil
“Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.”
- Unknown
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
- African Proverb
“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”
- Unknown
“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
- Harriet Nelson
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. ”
- Cherie Carter-Scott
“We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.”
- Louise Hay
“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
- Helen Keller
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”
- Unknown
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
- Barbara Kingsolver
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
- Donna Roberts
“There’s a light in the depths of your darkness. Let it shine.”
- Dan Fogleberg
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
- Anonymous
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T. S. Eliot
“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. ”
- Anonymous
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.”
- Michelangelo
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”
- Unknown
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.”
-Jimi Hendrix
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
-Harry Truman
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
- Mark Twain
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
- Groucho Marx
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. ”
- Albert Einstein
“You can if you think you can.”
- George Reeves
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time”
- Betty Smith
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
- Elie Wiesel
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.”
- Dennis S. Brown
“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.”
- Jesus
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
- Yoda
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
- Anonymous
“Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth.”
- Souza
“Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.”
- Mathew Arnold
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
- Jonathan Winters
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
-Aristotle
“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.”
- Martina Navratilova
“If we did all we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”
- Thomas Edison
“And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take.”
- Lennon & McCartney
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
-Buddhist proverb
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy
“The more I practice, the luckier I get. ”
- Jerry Barber
“It ain’t over till it’s over. ”
- Yogi Berra
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ”
- Ayn Rand
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ”
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
- Emily Dickinson
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
- Japanese Proverb
“He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.”
- African Proverb
“A good neighbor is a found treasure.”
- Chinese Proverb
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.”
- Jesus
“One finger can’t lift a pebble.”
- Hopi Proverb
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.”
- Native American Proverb
“The infinite is the finite of every instant.”
- Zen Proverb
“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself, which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”
- Maya Angelou
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.”
-Martha Graham
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
- Mother Teresa
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
- Anne Frank
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”
- Maya Angelou
“A book holds a house of gold.”
- Chinese Proverb
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
- Janis Joplin
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
- James A. Michener
“After enlightenment, the laundry.”
- Zen proverb
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Which if any of these quotes has meaning for you? And which ones have you heard so often that they go in one ear and out the other?
“A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can’t.”
- Jack Dempsey
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
-Vince Lombardi
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don’t change.”
- Jane Goodall
“Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway. “
- Unknown
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. “
- Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. “
- Grace Pulpit
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
- Albert Einstein
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”
- Whoopi Goldberg
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. “
- Confucius
“And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be”
- Lennon & McCartney
“It is never too late to become what you might have become.”
- George Eliot
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. “
- Albert Einstein
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
- The Buddha
“May you live all the days of your life.”
- Jonathan Swift
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
- Maya Angelou
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
- Stephen Covey
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
“Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.”
- W. Clement Stone
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
- Lao Tzu
“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
- Whoopi Goldberg
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
- Henry Ford
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy”
- Dale Carnegie
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
- Lloyd Jones
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
- Robert Schuller
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
- Lewis Cass
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
- Lou Holtz
“The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.”
- Malcolm F. MacNeil
“Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.”
- Unknown
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
- African Proverb
“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”
- Unknown
“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
- Harriet Nelson
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. “
- Cherie Carter-Scott
“We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.”
- Louise Hay
“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
- Helen Keller
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”
- Unknown
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
- Barbara Kingsolver
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
- Donna Roberts
“There’s a light in the depths of your darkness. Let it shine.”
- Dan Fogleberg
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
- Anonymous
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T. S. Eliot
“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. “
- Anonymous
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.”
- Michelangelo
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”
- Unknown
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
- Groucho Marx
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. “
- Albert Einstein
“You can if you think you can.”
- George Reeves
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time”
- Betty Smith
“One cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- André Gide
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
- Elie Wiesel
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.”
- Dennis S. Brown
“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.”
- Jesus
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
- Yoda
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
- Anonymous
“Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth.”
- Souza
“Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.”
- Mathew Arnold
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
- Jonathan Winters
“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.”
- Martina Navratilova
“If we did all we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”
- Thomas Edison
“And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take.”
- Lennon & McCartney
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. “
- Robert F. Kennedy
“The more I practice, the luckier I get. “
- Jerry Barber
“It ain’t over till it’s over. “
- Yogi Berra
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. “
- Ayn Rand
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. “
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
- Emily Dickinson
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
- Japanese Proverb
“He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.”
- African Proverb
“A good neighbor is a found treasure.”
- Chinese Proverb
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.”
- Jesus
“One finger can’t lift a pebble.”
- Hopi Proverb
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.”
- Native American Proverb
“The infinite in the finite of every instant.”
- Zen Proverb
“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself, which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”
- Maya Angelou
“A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just gt up and dance.”
-Martha Graham
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
- Mother Teresa
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
- Anne Frank
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”
- Maya Angelou
“A book holds a house of gold.”
- Chinese Proverb
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
- Janis Joblin
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
- James A. Michener
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. “
- Benjamin Disraeli
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