I picked up a copy of
The Little Book of Positive Quotations, compiled by Steve Deger and Leslie Ann
Gibson, while roaming a Barnes & Noble in Stamford, CT. Quotation books instantly move us and allow
us to feel something. Turn to any
page. Look at any line. You’re bound to immediately read something that
challenges you, that moves you, and that either affirms or negates your news
and perceptions.
It’s always interesting
to see how many quotes tend to get repeated from quotation book to quotation
book – and how many quotes differ from one another.
It makes sense that many quote compilers love similar quotes – that’s
the sign of a great, insightful quote.
But it also makes sense that we dig to find less common but equally
powerful sayings that ring true and forceful.
We each can use a reminder and a motivating quote to push us higher.
Many books quote other
books or open chapters with a quote.
It’s what we do – we like to write original material but we also like to
link ourselves to great ideas or great people.
Input in, output out. Writers are
editors, too, filtering the information they come upon, such as quotes and
handoff the few quotes they want others to experience and live with.
Will someone quote you
someday? What will your quote be?
Here are some quotes
that I came across in The Little Book of Positive Quotations. I hope they inspire or motivate you as they
do me.
“The teacher is one who
makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“To be a champ, you
have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”
-Sugar Ray Robinson
“One person with a
belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”
-John Stewart Mill
“Wise men don’t need
advice. Fools don’t take it.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Patience is the
companion of wisdom.”
-St. Augustine
“A cynic is a man who
knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
-Oscar Wilde
“It’s faith in
something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Don’t find fault, find
a remedy.”
-Henry Ford
-Henry Ford
“The mind is its own place,
and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
-John Milton
“Whenever you take a
step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
-Indira Gandhi
“You will become as
small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
-James Allen
“The wise person
questions himself, the fool others.”
-Henri Arnold
“Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-Thomas Edison
“If you aren’t fired
with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
-Vince Lombardi
“Vision is the art of
seeing things invisible.”
-Jonathan Swift
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