Chasing Rainbows

Motivational Quotes -- Simple Truths

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

-Jacob A. Riis

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Laurence Shames

Chance favors those in motion.

James H. Austin

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

Joann Thomas

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

J. Lubbock

The strongest warriors are these two...time and patience.

Leo Tolstoy

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

Unknown

The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go.

Winston Churchill

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting golden delicious.

Bill Meyer

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We learn to walk by stumbling.

Bulgarian Proverb

It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us.

Earl Nightingale

You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Spanish Proverb

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

John Wooden

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick B. Wilcox

Resource:  Motivational Quotes, compiled by Mac Anderson: Simple Truths.com

Ponderable Thoughts on the Future

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." -- (Abraham Lincoln)

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -- (Charles f. Kettering)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." -- (William Allen White)

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
(Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Physicist)

Resource:  Beliefnet.com

On Fascination/Curiousity

"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot."   (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."    (Felix Frankfurter)

"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it."    (Jim Rohn)

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."   (Ellen Parr)

 

 

"People don't fail because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit."