May 2014 Quotes
These quotes have elicited a reaction (thought, laughter) and brought a fresh perspective to my day. I trust they will do the same for others!
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tsu
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne Dyer
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“To get what you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don’t be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it — and you’ll eventually get it.” – Tucker Max
“I think the present moment is so underrated. It sounds so ordinary… And yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it’s anything but ordinary.” – Andy Puddicombe
“Your email inbox is a to-do list created by other people.” – Conrad Hackett
“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” – John Andrew Holmes
“Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.” – Jeff Bezos
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.” – William James
“Those who do not move do not notice their chains” – Rosa Luxemburg
““Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” – Anonymous
“Success is about proximity. Surround yourself with those who are beneficiaries of success to heighten your own chances of being positively impacted.” – Me
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Cyril Northcote Parkinson (Parkinson’s Law)
“We’re lending money we don’t have, to kids who will never be able to pay it back, for jobs that no longer exist.” – Mike Rowe
“Action offends the inactive. Offend them anyway.” – Source
