“I never said
most of the things
I said.”
– Yogi Berra
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 more quotes that have found a home in my memories:
These six were submitted by followers on Facebook & Word Press
From Dr. Diana Twiggs via Facebook
“If you think you can do a thing
or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
From John Trent via Word Press
“I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.”
From Holly Allain via Facebook
“Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself!”
(I found several versions of this quote. It doesn’t appear to be attributed to anyone specifically)
From Mark Dennis via Facebook
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
From Mariah Lovin via Facebook
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
From Deborah Roberts via Facebook
“Do or do not… there is no try.”
– Yoda
And here are a few more of my favorites
“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win,
and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”
– Lou Holtz
“We can’t solve problems by using
the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
“Who is the most powerful member of your sales team?
A satisfied customer.”
– Jeffrey Gitomer
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time.
Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
– M. Scott Peck
“There are no constraints on the human mind,
no walls around the human spirit,
no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Son. . . You can do anything you want to,
if you just put your mind to it.”
– Mom
“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity
to not know what can’t be done.”
– Henry Ford
“If you don’t know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.”
– Yogi Berra
“Most people have the will to win.
Few have the will to prepare to win.”
- Bobby Knight
“What you don’t know is how much you know
without knowing that you know it.”
– Patrick Jayne
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively
have prevailed.”
– Charles Darwin
“The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans
to take the place of those which fail.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there,
you’ll be able to see farther.”
– J.P. Morgan
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.”
– Barak Obama
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
– Warren Buffet
“You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.”
- James Allen
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people.
Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things
the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
– Mohammad Yunus
“And, did you exchange a walk-on part in the war
for the lead role in a cage?”
– Lyrics from Wish You Were Here by Roger Waters
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