Motivational Quote Corner

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  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    · “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ·Einstein
  • rene7975
    rene7975 Posts: 1 Member
    Not a quote, but a wonderful Eric Bibb song, “Just Keep Goin’ On,” that I found very motivating to walk to while in rehab after major surgery:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRtpX60XD0


    With harmonica! Love it!
  • BethStauffer1
    BethStauffer1 Posts: 2 Member
    You can have results or you can have excuses. You can’t have both.

    Not sure who originally said it but it has stuck with me!
  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 603 Member
    You have to participate in your own success.
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

    So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

    You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.

    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

    Dave Smalley
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    "show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

    C. Bukowski
  • colleen4429
    colleen4429 Posts: 3 Member
    Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

    -Newt Gingrich
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member


    "The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit."

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    Old as dirt. Wow. I went to my bathroom and looked in the mirror. “Let it go, Diane. No wallowing in self-pity. You have a family. You have a brother and two sisters. You have a daughter and a son. You have work. You have friends. You can feel. You can think, up to a point. Your legs walk, your arms swing. You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It’s much more engaging than being seen. That’s the bottom line, Diane.… Get over yourself. Listen to your friend Daniel Wolf’s advice—want what you have.

    Diane Keaton, Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
  • OhioDido
    OhioDido Posts: 47 Member

    “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

    Wayne Dyer
  • nita_26_nm
    nita_26_nm Posts: 1 Member
    I want to be healthy without cutting my stomach off I’m in it to win it
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,447 Member
    edited September 24


    "My uncle ordered popovers
    from the restaurant's bill of fare.
    And, when they were served,
    he regarded them with a penetrating stare.
    Then he spoke great words of wisdom
    as he sat there on that chair:
    "To eat these things," said my uncle,
    "You must exercise great care.
    You may swallow down what's solid,
    but you must spit out the air!"
    And as you partake of the world's bill of fare,
    that's darned good advice to follow.
    Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
    And be careful what you swallow."

    Dr. Seuss
  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,309 Member
    Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday! :)