Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
~ Christian D. Larson
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Persistence
When you think you can’t go on, force yourself to keep going. Your success is based on persistence, not luck.
~ unknown
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Trample it beneath your feet
I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~ Nadia Comăneci
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Courage
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
~ unknown
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Change simply is
Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.
~ Don Draper, in Mad Men (“Love Among the Ruins”), (s3e2, 2009 TV series)
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Immortality
Based on what I know about software without deadlines, humans achieving immortality would be a disaster.
~ Jeff Atwood
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Eyes half-closed
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-closed afterwards.
~ unknown
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Useless to worry
When one is inexperienced as a teacher, one gets quite worried about the pupil’s situation; His anxieties rub off on the teacher as it were. But an older teacher realizes it is useless to worry or even think about it. The thinking has been done already, and a proper programme has been carefully worked out to suit this pupil. Either he will follow it, or he will not.
~ Trevor Leggett
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Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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By example
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Staggering results
Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.
~ unknown
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Grow
I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow.
~ “THEKHOOLHAUS“
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What makes it great
Of course it’s hard, it’s supposed to be hard.
~ unknown
If it was easy, everyone would do it.
HARD is what makes it GREAT.
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Your whole life
People overestimate what they can do in a single day and underestimate what they can do in their whole lives.
~ unknown
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No one knows
No one but you knows how hard you work, how many hours you put in behind the scenes, so rely on yourself for approval, not the outside world.
~ unknown
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Assert integrity of purpose
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer. The creatures of the common place. The slaves of the ordinary.
~ Cecil Beaton
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Attitude
The problem is not the problem.
~ Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, (2003 film)
The problem is you attitude about the problem.
Do you understand?
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Thinking
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is think with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~ A. A. Milne
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Painful experience
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
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Hang on
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
~ unknown
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