What's Your Favorite Life Changing Quote?

[Brenton Russell]

I am creating a new Vision Board to represent my lifestyle design and I would like to include some inspiring life-changing quotes.

What are your favorite life-changing quotes that I might be able to include on my Vision Board?

[Brenton Russell]

Here's one of mine to get the ball rolling:

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful” – ANNETTE FUNICELLO

[OWGrant]

It's hard to choose one, but I'll post a few of them, it's even better that way because you can then choose the ones that you personally find inspiring. Underlined ones are the ones I like the most.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

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If you limit your actions to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.

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I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed. ~M. Jordan

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ~Earl of Chesterfield

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.


It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle.

When the sun comes up, you better be running.
~Thomas L. Friedman, “The World Is Flat”

Oh, and... "Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out."

[kiddo]

"This too shall pass; the best is yet to come."

"How you do anything, is how you do everything."

[Breathe Fully]

"You Become What You Think About" --- Earl Nightingale

[Lifeisamazing]

“Do what you always did, get what you always got.”

[Goldhart23]

"If you want change, you must create evidence of change. Evidence of change equals new habits. No new habits equals no change in prediction [of your future]"--Steve Pavlina

"To claim all the treasures in life that are rightfully yours, you must take deliberate action, have faith, be focused, and have unwavering consistency and patience."--Stephen Pierce

"It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."--Tony Robbins

[SrKen]

"Why are we such fools - such tragic fools? How strange it is, our little procession of life. The child says, 'when I am a big boy'. But what is that? the big boy says, 'when I grow up'. And then, grown up, he says, 'when I get married'. But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to, 'when I retire'. And then when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour". -Stephen Leacock

Henry Ward Beecher says it much more directly; ""You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated of it."

[Lava]

''I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.''
Jimi Hendrix


"What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)

[Lava]

Also this..

''When I born, I black. When I grow up, I black. When I go in sun, I black. When I scared, I black. And when I die, I still black. And you white people. When you born, you pink. When you grow up, you white. When you in sun, you red. When you cold, you blue. When you sick, you green. And when you die are…And you calling me colored?''
Written by an African child

[dulaney0330]

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is scarcely any passion without struggle."
~ Albert Camus

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~Carl Jung

[danas]

Originally Posted by Lava

Also this..

''When I born, I black. When I grow up, I black. When I go in sun, I black. When I scared, I black. And when I die, I still black. And you white people. When you born, you pink. When you grow up, you white. When you in sun, you red. When you cold, you blue. When you sick, you green. And when you die are…And you calling me colored?''
Written by an African child

i love that

[QHC]

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D Roosevelt

"When obstacles arise, you change your directions to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there." - Zig Ziglar.

"If u have a dream, there is no justification for exerting anything less than your total effort to make it happen."

Lawrence

[KathyT]

(This is slightly paraphrased):

"Ideals are like the stars. We may not be able to touch them, but like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them." Carl Schurz

I first saw this written on a blackboard in high school. My English teacher would put a new phrase up every day, and this stuck with me and has guided me since 1977.

Have fun with your vision board Brenton!
Kath

[UpwithDawn]

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius

[ChrisGinsburg]

This one popped up on my site today from my daily quote generator. It really resonated with me.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou

[Shariku Onikage]

Talent is for cowards, destiny for fools.

[neilpage]

STAY HUNGREY!..... wheater for hungery for knowleadge... fitness, wellness, desire... movement of body funtions to indure the best/positive way in being than more in just what we think we can be!


STAY HUNGRY................. FOR LIVING!

[QHC]

Some more:

"If you think you can do a thing or think your can't do a thing, you are right." - Henry Ford

"Successful people formed the ahbit of doing things that failures don't like to do." - Albert E N Gray

"If your mind can conceive something and your heart can believe it, your body can achieve it." - Vikas Malkani

Lawrence
Purpose & Wisdom of Life

[Stars777]

Oh these quotes are so lovely, i must save them!!!

[QHC]

Some more:

"The difference between extraordinary people & ordinary people is as simple as the difference between the two words. Extraordinary people are committed to doing the extra things that ordinary people won't." - Christine Kinney.

"Successful people formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do." - Albert E N Gray.

[sandstorm]

Never put off till tomorrow what can wait till the day after.

[Lava]

''Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.'' ~ George Bernard Shaw

''Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.'' ~ B. Olatunji

''When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.''


And a few of the funny ones

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.~Jack Handey

Be yourself – everyone else is taken.~Anonymous

"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure." - Murphy's Law

And one of my favourites:

''One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.'' - Author Unknown

[Brenton Russell]

Wow, what great quotes!

Here's one that someone posted on my website the other day that I think is excellent:

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; the question is who’s going to stop me?” – Ayn Rand

Keep them coming!

[Lava]

Oh I forgot this one... I actully came up with it on my own although it doesn't sound like something I would say (I was thinking about the world and where it's going and this just popped out in my head) but I don't remember reading it anywhere and I have definitely not heard someone saying it..
Here it is... If we all followed the rule ''an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'' the whole world would be blind and edentate.

(for the ones who don't know english very well: edentate=toothles, I picked it because toothles sounds plain to me)

Nothing special about it but it appeared in my head when I needed it the most...

[Lava]

Originally Posted by danas

i love that

Me too
I don't know why you have chosen that nickname but did you know that in my language ''danas'' means ''today''?

[sorter]

To do is to be - Descartes;
To be is to do - Voltaire;
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra

And I'm not kidding about Frank's as much as you might think.
Three doings and two beings sounds about right.

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[Lynn 007]

This is one of my favs and has helped me reach numerous goals:
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal - Henry Ford

[Quantum Blue]

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Eden Phillpotts

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

Hayes, Helen

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

QB

[Verlan]

Love these quotes!

One of my favorite is:

"Don't believe everything you think."