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How To Make Sure Your Best Ideas Don’t Die On The Vine:
Ever had a crazy idea that woke you up at night that seemed so absolutely brilliant you practically leaped out of bed to get started on it? But the cozy blankets lured you back, and by morning the brilliant idea was a hazy memory, at best. Sound familiar?
It happens to the best of us sometimes. But these suggestions will help you keep those ideas afloat, and help you not just remember them, but get them implemented, too.
1) Write them down, even in the middle of the night. If you’re prone to flashes of brilliance at four in the morning, keep a journal by your bedside and write the ideas down. Don’t use your phone to record ideas unless you’re on your own — the light and sound will wake up your partner! Make it brief but concrete, so you have a solid handle on the idea in the morning.
2) Get a coworker enthused before going to the boss. A good way to test an idea before putting your credibility on the line is by sharing it with a colleague. Have a coffee with a trusted office pal and get some feedback on your idea. They may even have some valuable input that will help you hone and improve your plan. In that case, you may end up having to share some of the credit, but the important thing is seeing your idea put into action, right? If it helps make the company more successful, you can bet your name will be remembered when promotions and salary increases are handed out.
3) Prepare for resistance with facts and figures. Not all new ideas are welcomed with open arms by superiors, particularly if they mean spending precious budgetary dollars or doing something in a whole new way. Let’s say, for example, you want to redesign the firm’s website and bring a digital editor on board; that costs money. But if you can show a verifiable increase in online views at companies that have followed a similar plan, and you know where the money can come from in the annual budget, you’re bound to meet far fewer objections. Better yet, demonstrate how you can implement your idea on a trial basis before asking your company to commit to it permanently — having a safety net, metaphorically speaking, makes bosses much less nervous about big risks.
4) Keep track of your ideas even if they can’t be implemented today. It’s fair to say that not all companies will share your every vision and idea, so keep them on the back burner, in a file, for the day you’re running your own shop. When the time comes that it’s your name on the CEO’s door, you’ll be able to implement every bold work idea you ever had. When that time comes, it might be easier to understand why your boss was reluctant last week to take the chances your idea entails.
5) Keep pitching, but don’t harangue! If your boss turns down your idea today, it doesn’t mean it’s out of the question forever. When appropriate — say during your annual performance review — remind them of your idea and ask whether the time has come to re-evaluate it. Circumstances at businesses change just about every day, and eventually your ideas, even the ones that once seemed far fetched, might become more realistic. But be willing to let an idea go if it’s clear your company wants no part of it. Like I said, once you have your own firm you can implement all the ideas you want.
Most importantly, don’t take criticism and refusal personally; you may have a great idea for the wrong time and place. Move on, keep thinking, and remember — record those ideas so that when the time comes, you’re ready.
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Powerful Winston Churchill Quotes That Will Motivate And Inspire You
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary
I’m easily satisfied with the very best.
Continuous efforts–not strength or intelligence– is the key to unlocking our full potential.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A state of society where men cannot speak their minds cannot long endure.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
I never worry about action, only inaction.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Everyone has his days and some days last longer than others.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
I have never developed an indigestion from eating my words.
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
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How To Cope With Stress And Anxiety And Find The Motivation To Follow Your Dream.
According to the American Institute of Stress, about 33% of people experience stress. It even goes further to say over 77% will experience that stress that will affect their physical health, mental health and even have trouble sleeping.
Sadly, the stress levels are getting worse rather than better. With the ongoing pandemic, these figures will keep rising as more and more people are now struggling with the dwindling economy.
What are some of the major causes of stress?
Stress can be triggered by anything. But some of the major triggers for stress, according to the American Psychological Association, include:
Money
Job stability
Work-related
Economy
Family issues
Relationship issues
Individual Health Issues
Rent, Mortgage/loans
Family health issues
Security
But how should you cope with stress and anxiety?
It is important to develop your mechanisms for dealing with stress. How people deal with stress and anxiety is unique for every person. But it all starts with identifying the triggers. This is like identifying the problem.
If you know what triggers your stress or anxiety, you will be able to manage and control even before it starts messing up with your day to day activities.
Stress and anxiety can derail you from attaining your set goals. Therefore, you must find ways of handling them. It is only a matter of “when” they will hit, not “if” they will hit. Because in a lifetime, you must experience some stress or anxiety of some sort.
Here is how you can cope with stress and anxiety and stay focused on your dreams, and set goals:
Get a mentor
Find a mentor who can help walk you through the difficult times. It is almost impossible to see how good you are or what good you can do when stressed. This is where your mentor comes in to help you see the big picture. A mentor will ensure that you are responsible for your actions, and s/he will guide you so that you don’t make the mistake he or she made.
A mentor will question your moves and help you see things from a different viewpoint. S/he will be your guide to your dreams amidst the chaos caused by stress and anxiety.
Get some time off
We are sometimes caught up chasing our dreams that we end up burning the midnight oil and taking up so much. It is important to take some time off and have health breaks between tasks. Get some good night’s sleep.
Sleeping for less than 6 hours will only lead to tension and unproductivity. You must take time to rejuvenate yourself with a good sleeping routine that helps you to succeed in achieving your objectives.
Confide to someone you trust or an expert
A problem shared is half solved. If you have a close family, friends, an expert, or just a close confidant, share your problems with them. Sometimes when stressed, you just need someone who will listen to your issues.
You can get weight off your shoulder when discussing your feelings with others, and the other person can even advise you practically from a different perspective.
No situation is permanent
One way to eliminate anxiety is to reevaluate your life and look at all other different perspectives. Sometimes the solution just lies within us and is waiting for you to unleash. Maybe it is family problems or sickness. Or you have just given up on life. These circumstances may cause you to be anxious, worried, and super stressed.
But you need to know nothing is permanent. Take action about what you can handle at the moment, do as much as you can to change things—baby steps, one step at a time, until you handle the bigger issue.
There are many ways of handling stress and issues that affect us in life, but it all depends on your willingness to try and ability to act on them as soon as they emerge. Don’t let temporary situations derail you from your goals or stop you from following your dream.
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How to deal with difficult people.
Sooner or later everyone has to cope with someone who makes their life difficult – bosses, colleagues, friends, or relatives. It’s easy to lose control, snap at the person and let the entire situation dissolve into recriminations and anger. But there are strategies you can employ on how to deal with difficult people, and using these techniques means the encounter ends more smoothly for everyone involved, even the person who’s causing problems.
How to deal with difficult people
Let’s use the example of a colleague, someone who is, perhaps, moody and tough to get along with. There is little to be gained by refusing to deal with them; after all, you’re a co-worker, not a boss. What to do? If the colleague comes to work gloomy and silent or worse, takes credit for your idea, how should you handle it?
Most importantly, don’t get angry. That’s like pouring gasoline on a flame; it makes the situation worse. Try using humor to diffuse awkward moments. Ask yourself what might be at the root of a temperamental outburst or sulky silences. Try to have empathy. But if he’s taking credit for an idea you had, that’s a different story; it has to be dealt with, preferably by airing your grievance openly. Don’t answer anger with anger and don’t make a professional problem into a personal one. Make clear your issue, and if necessary, go to a superior to demonstrate that the work, the idea, was yours. No one likes a “tattle tale,” but if you want due credit for work you’ve done, the problem has to be addressed.
Ask yourself the real reason for the behavior. Perhaps this person has problems at home, or financial problems that are causing the short-tempered outbursts. We can never know what’s truly going on in other people’s lives, particularly at work. So give your colleague the benefit of the doubt, try to resolve the issue and then move on. Time is too precious to devote hours to wondering what is going on with this kind of person. You might even have to minimize contact, if possible. If that’s not a reasonable solution, do your best to deal with him calmly, then problem-solve one issue at a time. It’s impossible to know whether your interactions with that person will give you trouble, so take it, quite literally, one day at a time.
What if it’s a friend? Let’s say, for example, you know someone who is chronically late, and you’re always five minutes early for lunch or a shopping date. That kind of issue can be resolved by being candid, calm and rational, and not allowing your temper to flare. State your case, ask why it happens, and suggest ways you can resolve the issue together. What matters here is not making the problem larger than it is; slight tardiness isn’t worth losing a valued friend, right? Keep it in perspective.
Dealing with difficult people isn’t easy; it takes maturity, inner strength, and wisdom. But if you pause, take a breath and wait to react, rather than getting emotional, you will find it easier to respond to the most difficult situation thrown at you. After all, the last thing you want is for someone in your life to describe you as difficult, right?
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I Can Give You a Million Reasons Why You Should Live – And NOT Commit Suicide
Life. It can be a challenge. It can be painful. It can hurt. And it can be downright exhausting. Whether you are 9 or 99, it doesn’t ever get easy. But whether you can see it now or not, it is worth it.
The funny thing about life is that it is all yours. There is nothing that I can say or do that can change your mind if you want to rid yourself of it. Your life is yours and mine is mine. What I can do, though, is tell you why you shouldn’t. Yes, that is right – why you should not commit suicide and why you should embrace the life you have. And, that is precisely what I am going to do.
Reasons Why I Should Live:
- Life comes with beautiful moments, too. Such as love, laughter, a warm embrace, sunsets, sunrises, and everything in between.
- You are not alone. Although you may not see it, there is someone out there that would be devastated if you were no longer here.
- You were put here for a reason. Whether it was to accomplish something spectacular that can change the world or touch the life of someone who needs You to have a reason for being.
- Who you are today is not who you will be tomorrow, next month, or even next year. You are constantly growing and evolving. So, this is temporary. Remember, pain always never lasts.
- By using your pain and scars, you are increasing your strength. You are taking the hurt and letting it transform you into something powerful. The more you struggle, the more strength you gain.
- There has to be something that you love. Good food? Dancing? Music? Your mother? Whatever (or whoever) it is, you won’t be able to enjoy it any longer if you are not here. And, well, that’d be a shame.
- Taking your own life is selfish and cowardly. Your life doesn’t just belong to you – it also belongs to those around you. Your friends, your family, etc. If you take your life, you are inflicting incredible pain onto them. Taking away your own pain to cause it on someone else is likely not what you’d want to do, but it would be exactly what would happen.
- You can design the life you want. If life as it is seeming to be causing you unhappiness and pain, then change it. Believe it or not, you have the power and ability to do that. Do something that makes you happy and makes you love the life you live. Your thoughts on committing suicide will disappear.
I could keep going…
Look beyond the momentary pain and suffering you are feeling. Find the sunshine and live it. Why? Because death is inevitable – in its own time. Don’t rush it. Don’t call on it. And, don’t take it on your own terms. Live the life you were given to the fullest so that you may accomplish all you were designed to do. The world wouldn’t be the same if you don’t.
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Oprah Winfrey Quotes that will elevate your thinking
- Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
- I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk
- Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
- The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
- You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
- I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
- So, go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
- I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
- If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
- Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
- I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
- The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
- You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean
- Do the one thing you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those that never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
- If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
- When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.
- You become what you believe, not what you think you want.
- You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you are responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
- Over the years, I have interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I have ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of lacking of self-value or self-worth.
- Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
- I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
- Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health
- I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Don’t let people talk you into what they think is you.
- I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
- I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.
- To me, the money is – it’s certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you’re able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
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You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To
Yes, you – the one reading this. You can do anything you want to do – as long you set your mind to it. Don’t believe it? Have doubts? Well, that could be a problem. Because, in order to accomplish anything and everything you set out to do, you must believe in yourself.
Know that. You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To
When you set a goal or have an idea of something you’d like to do, you must know that you can do it. Let’s look at a simple example:
You are craving a homemade pizza. You head to the store and purchase all the ingredients that you need. You’ve got a crust, some sauce, cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, peppers, black olives, etc. You assemble your pizza, pop it in the oven, and boom – in 20 minutes or so you’ve got yourself a homemade pizza. You made it. You knew that you could and so you did. You didn’t think to yourself, Hmm… I’d love a homemade pizza, but I don’t think I can make one. You just did it because it was a simple pizza.
This same mental attitude can be applied to anything. You just have to know that you can – and not think twice about it.
Picture yourself
Sometimes having a vision of yourself accomplishing your goal can help you get there. It gives you a picture to go along with the mental focus – and helps you know that you truly can do anything. Here is an easy exercise to try:
Close your eyes and think about what it is you would like to accomplish. Once you see where you are going, what would it feel like to get there? What will you look like when you reach your goal? Will you be smiling? Will you be jumping up and down? Will something positive result from your success? If so, what will that look like?
Sure, some may refer to these thoughts as mindless daydreams. But, picturing yourself already at the finish line can make the race seem easier – and stronger.
Don’t take your eye off the prize
Whatever you do, don’t lose track of where you are going. Keep your eye on the prize. You may have hurdles, speed bumps, and other obstacles that may slow you down or try to defeat you, but if you stay focused on the road ahead, you won’t let them stop you. Giving up when things get in your way is not an option.
As you travel through life you will learn that the more empowered you feel, the stronger the pull will be to drag you back down. This is why focusing and keeping your eye on the prize is so important. After all, if you know where you are going, you won’t be tricked by side roads.
Believe in yourself and know that you are able to accomplish anything that you set your mind to. Know it, visualize, and steady your focus. You are more powerful than you think.
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Michelle Obama Quotes that will motivate You
*You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages
*Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?
*You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
*I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
*The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.
*Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.
*You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.
*Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
*One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
*Choose people who lift you up.
*Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.
*I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.
*I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
*I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
*Find people who will make you better.
*The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
*Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
*Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
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How to be confident
‘’Confidence is not, ‘They will like me’. Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’. ‘’.”
Confidence is more of the inside than the outside; it’s about how you feel about yourself and not constantly worrying and caring about what anyone else thinks or does. It’s knowing that you are a flawed human, not perfect but cool in your own way. It’s about having a healthy positive attitude and taking control of your life and going after your goals and dreams with strong will power and belief that you can do it.
How to be confident?
Take Good Care of Yourself
Taking good care of yourself can uplift your spirit, make you feel strong, and boost your confidence all at the same time. You don’t have to break the bank to look great, as long as you’re clean, feel good and comfortable with what you wear and how you look, you are set for confidence.
Surround Yourself with Positive People
Spend more time with people you feel make You Stay You, people that laugh at your jokes and less or zero time with those that constantly tear you down or undermine who you are.
Love Yourself
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when you love and embrace who you are. When you start loving yourself, people can kind of pick on that; they see self-esteem, they see confidence, they see positivity, and naturally, people will seek to be around you.
Be Positive and Believe in Yourself
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” Gandhi
Kill and erase those negative thinking and focus on your qualities. Always believe in yourself. Be proud of who and what you are and never compare yourself to others. You never really know what’s going on in people’s lives. People choose (especially on social media), to show what they want others to see just to get approval. They live their lives for other people’s happiness in lieu of their own.
Learn a New Skill
Don’t stand still waiting for the right, convenient, or perfect time to learn something new. Now is the perfect time. It’s a drag to leave anything that can be done today for tomorrow. Embrace your interest now by learning something you been thinking and dreaming of doing for a long time. It could be a new language, any sport, painting, etc. Don’t get discouraged if you aren’t seeing immediate positive results. As long as you keep going, you will not only get better but grow in confidence as well.
Help Others
You will feel better about yourself when you take time out to brighten someone else’s day. There are a few ways you can do this. Giving someone else a compliment, doing an unannounced deal, like holding and opening the door for someone, especially those that are older and physically frail can push your confidence through the roof; and if someone brightens your day with any good deal, show your gratitude with a smile and say thank you.
Always have the courage to start over again.
“Show me a man who has never failed, and I will see a man who has never attempted anything.”
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything”
Don’t think of your mistakes and failures as negatives but rather as learning opportunities. The excitement you feel when you trust that someday your chance will come is beyond refreshing and rewarding
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Powerful Barack Obama quotes that will inspire and motivate you.
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
- The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
- I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
- But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
- When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
- You can’t give up your passion if things don’t work right away. You can’t lose heart, or grow cynical if there are twists and turns on your journey. The cynics may be the loudest voices – but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.
- Change is never easy, but always possible.
- You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
- Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
- We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
- If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.
- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
- If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.
- Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
- We are the change we have been waiting for.
- Where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, We Can.
- When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
- We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
- We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.
- Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
- If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own… I’m always struck by people who think, ‘well, it must be because I was just so smart.’ There are a lot of smart people out there. ‘It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.’ Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
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