I don't know why I haven't done this before, but I'm doing it now. I suppose I haven't done it, because they're all listed on my Facebook page, so I can see them, because I am friends with me. Well, I'm a very nice person you know.
Anyway, rather than ramble on, in no specific order, here is a selection of my favourite quotations:
Some are even from me. At least, as far as I know they are. I'm not aware of them being from anyone else anyway!
I hope some of them inspire you :)
"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us, so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
- Barack Obama
If you're going through hell, keep going
- Winston Churchill
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."
- H. Jackson Brown
"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
- Roald Dahl
"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Success can only be achieved with a kind of pioneer spirit and the repeated use of three tools: failure, introspection and courage."
- Soichiro Honda.
"The true power of knowledge is only exposed once it is shared."
- Me (and not Einstein as someone thought! I am flattered though!)
"Time and the allowance of compassion are the only routes to contentment"
- Another one of mine
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford (better at quotes than political alignments!). A previous manager at work who I really admire told me this though, so I like to pretend it's one of his.
"Two of the unexpected joys of undertaking tasks slightly beyond your experience and comfort zone is that you are a better person just for trying, and forever changed in succeeding. A life like that will keep a smile on your face and calm confidence in your heart."
- My former Boss
"Nice guys may finish last, but the good guys always win"
- Me again
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
- Donald Rumsfeld (not a fan of his by the way, but I like this quote)
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours"
- Unknown
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
- Opening lines to the film "Love Actually"
Oh, and of course virtually everything Homer Simpson has ever said.
Anyway, rather than ramble on, in no specific order, here is a selection of my favourite quotations:
Some are even from me. At least, as far as I know they are. I'm not aware of them being from anyone else anyway!
I hope some of them inspire you :)
"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us, so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
- Barack Obama
If you're going through hell, keep going
- Winston Churchill
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."
- H. Jackson Brown
"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
- Roald Dahl
"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Success can only be achieved with a kind of pioneer spirit and the repeated use of three tools: failure, introspection and courage."
- Soichiro Honda.
"The true power of knowledge is only exposed once it is shared."
- Me (and not Einstein as someone thought! I am flattered though!)
"Time and the allowance of compassion are the only routes to contentment"
- Another one of mine
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford (better at quotes than political alignments!). A previous manager at work who I really admire told me this though, so I like to pretend it's one of his.
"Two of the unexpected joys of undertaking tasks slightly beyond your experience and comfort zone is that you are a better person just for trying, and forever changed in succeeding. A life like that will keep a smile on your face and calm confidence in your heart."
- My former Boss
"Nice guys may finish last, but the good guys always win"
- Me again
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
- Donald Rumsfeld (not a fan of his by the way, but I like this quote)
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours"
- Unknown
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
- Opening lines to the film "Love Actually"
Oh, and of course virtually everything Homer Simpson has ever said.
