Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

“Quote me as saying

that I was mis-quoted.”

-Groucho Marx

Sometimes it’s who said it. Sometimes it how it was said or even, under what circumstances it was uttered. In any case the words stick. And, having stuck, they become indispensible thought-provoking tidbits that serve to boldly highlight our own perspective that we at times find so difficult to define. At a loss for words of our own, we turn to quotes. Here are twenty-five quotes that have found a home in my memories:

 

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” 

– John Wooden

 

“So much has been given to me;

I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

– Helen Keller

 

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things

that escape those who dream only at night.”

– Edgar Allan Poe

 

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know that we cannot live within.”

– James A. Baldwin

 

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

– Napoleon Hill

 

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind

with an open one.”

– Malcolm Forbes

 

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”

– Albert Einstein

 

“It is amazing what you can accomplish

if you do not care who gets the credit.”

– Harry S. Truman

 

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

– Mother Teresa

 

“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’” 

– Robert Kennedy

 

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

– James A. Lovell

 

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” 

– Leonardo da Vinci

 

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” 

– Lao Tzu

 

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” 

– Helen Keller

 

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” 

– Vince Lombardi

 

“There are things known and things unknown

and in between, are the doors.”

– Jim Morrison

 

“Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh the thinks you can think up, if only you try!” 

– Dr. Seuss

 

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. Otherwise, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.” 

– George Lucas

 

“We cannot become what we need to be

by remaining what we are.” 

– Max de Pree

 

“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”

- James A. Lovel

 

“If you can meet with triumph and disaster,

And treat those two imposters just the same;”

– Rudyard Kipling

 

“We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.”

– Thomas Edison

 

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”

– Christopher Columbus

 

“What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.”

- Unknown

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“Remember, the light at the end of the darkness may be you.”

– borrowed from Aerosmith

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