Huge fan of quotations. Whatever you are thinking, its probably been said by a famous person – more succinctly, more eloquently. Here are some of my favorites. The bucketing is approximate, and definitely not MECE.
We are what we repeatedly do
- All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
- Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. – W.H. Auden
- Your dreams don’t work unless you do – John Maxwell
- Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential – Winston Churchill
- Without great solitude no serious work is possible – Pablo Picasso
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
- A hero is one who knows how to hang on for one minute longer. Norweigan Proverb
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
- That the mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Experience = the name we give mistakes
- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
- The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
- You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice – Bob Marley
- Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat” – Malcolm Forbes
- A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor – Franklin D Roosevelt
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
Live the life you imagined
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined – Henry David Thoreau
- Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert Schuller
- You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It’s just according to the way you look at things – Walt Disney
- Fear leads to self-doubt which is the worst enemy of creativity. – David Ogilvy
- Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have had lots of troubles in my life, most of which never happened. – Mark Twain
- People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals – Ford
- Do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. – Elon Musk
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free – Michelangelo
Yesterday, you said tomorrow
- The most effective way to do it, is to do it. – Amelia Earhart
- Yesterday, you said tomorrow – Nike
- One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. – Paulo Coelho
- It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible – Audrey Hepburn
- Most people get ahead during the time that others waste – Henry Ford
I am only passionate curious
- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign – Robert Louis Stevenson
- I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned. – Richard Feynman
- Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts – Phil Jackson
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of our desire to understand – Neil Armstrong
- Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up – Sir Ken Robinson
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts – Eleanor Roosevelt
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein
- Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
Anyone who stops learning is old
- Anyone who stops learning is old – Henry Ford
- In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
- To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day. – Lao Tzu
Do not mistake activity for achievement
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life – Socrates
- It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. – Isocrates
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all – Peter Drucker
Everybody is a genius
- What makes you different or weird—that’s your strength – Meryl Streep
- The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away – Picasso
- When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you – Lao Tzu
- Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. – Golda Meir
- If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else – Marvin Gaye
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are – Joseph Campbell
- When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
- One of the greatest discoveries a person makes is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do. – Henry Ford
- Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own – Bruce Lee
- Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ― Albert Einstein
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You’ll be criticized anyway – Eleanor Roosevelt
I got all of these from a Chrome browser add-in called “Momentum”. It’s free. Shows a nature scene and provides a simple, positive quote. Enjoy.
Do you have some favorite quotes that need to be added to this list?
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