FAVOURITE QUOTES

Here are 62 of my favourite quotes…
I would love to reach 100…
So if you have any you consider to be real gems, please feel free to contact me with your own little treasures…

If the eyes are the window to the soul,
then The voice is its tru reflection

Man cannot discover new oceans
until he has courage To loose sight of the shore.

The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement.

Vision isn’t enough unless combined with venture –
It’s not enough to stare up the steps
Unless we also step up the stairs.
Vance Hayner

Keep in mind that, even if you are on the right track
you can still be left behind if you just sit there.   (anon)

Do more than exist – live
Do more than touch – feel
Do more than look – see
Do more than hear - listen
Do more than talk – say something…

No time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends

Go the extra mile – it’s never crowded!

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Sam Levenson)

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot – but I always found them
Roger Kangerfield

Change starts when someone sees the next step
William Drayton

Exhillaration is the feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realize what’s wrong with it. 

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer,
Let him step to the music he hears  however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
But in having new eyes
Marcel Proust

When we truly love, it is never lost
– It is only after death, that the depth of the bond is truly felt
And our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life
Oriental traditional

When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly
Patrick Overton

Take rest, a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

Use what talents you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

the greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do! 

If we know how to listen to our own hearts, we can listen to the hearts of others.

Any time we help create shared vision and stratergy we empower ourselves and others.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.

When you are impressed by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break the bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

For those who believe no proof is necessary,
for those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

If at first you don’t succeed – find out why!

Come to the edge he said
They said, we are afraid.
Come to the edge, he said
They came,
He pushed them
and they flew…
Guillaume Apollinaire

Anything parents have not learned from experience
they can now learn from their children

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated
You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps
David Lloyd George

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
Anatole France

Never confuse activity with action.
F.Scott Fitzgerald

Grey hair is great. Ask anyone who’s bald.
Lee Travino

Age is not important – unless you are a cheese.

Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford

May you have food and raiment - A soft pillow for your head
May you be half an hour in heaven – before the devil knows you are dead!
Irish Traditional

Bravery is being the only one who knows you are afraid.
Franklin P. Jones

When the blind leadeth the blind…get out of the way!

The tree which moves some to joy is, in the eye of others, only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.
William Blake

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak,
courage  is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
Jewish proverb

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah Moore

Progress always involves risks.  You can’t take second base AND keep your foot on first.
James Bryan Conant

If you ain’t the leade dog, the scenery never changes!

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first,
the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law

Carry your own lantern and you need not fear the dark.
Jewish Traditional

Your friend is the person who knows all about you – and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Slender at first, they quickly gather force
Growing in richness as they run their course
Once started, they do not turn back again,
Rivers and years and friendships with good men.
Sanscrit poem

I can’t change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails.

Everything is funny – as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal

Give your hearts but not into each other’s keeping
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts
And stand together yet not too near together
For the pillars of the temple stand apart
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow
And let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese proverb

Consider the postage stamp:
 its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing til it gets there!
Josh Billings

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by  the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Brooker T. Washington

Some succeed because they are destined to
but most succeed because they are determined to

Never judge a person until you have walked a mile in their shoes –
That way, when you do, you will be a mile away
AND you will have their shoes!

Highlands by Maribel

 

 

 

 

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