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May you find great value in these quotes by Ann Landers.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Related topics: Motivational
Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
I say "YES" to the opportunities life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier ...
a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils -
a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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