I am a huge fan of quotations. I have quotes for just about everything, funny, encouraging, motivational and inspirational. If you would like a tool that can have a daily impact on your life, try collecting and memorizing quotations. Reading new ones everyday is a big part of staying positive and motivated. Here are just a few of my personal favorites. It really is a wonderful life.
"After all . . . I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." - Lucy Maud Montgomery (from Anne of Green Gables)
"In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century (1800-1899) more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century (1900 - 1999) hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done --- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts --- just mere thought --- are as powerful as electric batteries --- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live." - Frances Hodgson Burnett (from The Secret Garden)
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." - Casey Kasem
"In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century (1800-1899) more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century (1900 - 1999) hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done --- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts --- just mere thought --- are as powerful as electric batteries --- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live." - Frances Hodgson Burnett (from The Secret Garden)
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." - Casey Kasem
"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career to associate with them for even one day?
Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert - also the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow - to have spent the next nine years with that wonderful little fellow Miller Huggins - then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology - the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy!
Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something! When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles against her own daughter, that's something. When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing! When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know.
So I close in saying that I might have had a tough break - but I have an awful lot to live for! Thank you!" - Lou Gehrig - July 4,1939
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