What Are Your Favorite Quotes?
“I hope that after I die, people will say of me: ‘That guy sure owed me a lot of money.’” - Jack Handey
Today at the Creative Journey Cafe, I thought I’d ask you a question:
What are your favorite inspirational quotes?
I’m talking life-changing quotes. Quotes you tack on your wall. Quotes that make you go “Oooooooh”. Quotes to live up to. Quotes that expand your mind, open your heart, get you through the day, and set you on a new path along your creative journey.
Here’s a few that I love:
“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.” - Gerald Jampolsky
“Let go and let God.” - Anon.
“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver
“Follow your bliss.” - Joseph Campbell
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a serious lack of imagination.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Enjoy every sandwich.” - Warren Zevon
“What’s wrong with right now unless you think about it?” - Sailor Bob
“Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda
I could go on, but I’ll turn it over to you. What are your favorite life-changing quotes? Leave a comment! (and be sure to read the awesome quotes people are sharing!)
Thanks for the great quotes, Mark. One of my favorite quotes is actually a zen saying. “Leap and the net will appear.”
I absolutely love it. I have it hanging in my office. Whenever I feel scared, unsure, or not 100 percent confident, I remember this saying and live it.
Great idea for a blog post. Love it!
I’ve got tons of favorite quotes; heres a few:
“You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller
And my favorite . . .
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” - Walt Disney
Love the one on the top…Oh my gosh that is me right now..until I pay off the feds for the student loans!
“Be the change that you want to be in this world” is pretty much what keeps me doing what I do just about every single day.
“There are two ways to see the world. One as if everything is a miracle and the other as if nothing is a miracle.” or something like that from Einstein.
Everytime I brush my teeth I read the quote from Marianne Williamson “Our deepest fear…”
What a great positive blog! Hooray I feel so good now. Thank you
Lovely post! Here are some of my favorites…
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.” -Dawna Markova
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life” - Sir William Osler
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now” - Goethe
“For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear — when you are the hammer, strike” - Edwin Markham
Great Post, Mark.
It’s amazing how ones physical state can change just by reading a few inspiring words . . . (Yoda’s looking at me now from a shelf above. He agrees).
“Nothing happens until something moves” - Albert Einstein
Thanks everybody! Your quotes are fantastic. Keep ‘em comin’!
It’s a bit long, but I made it to a screensavor and read it every day at work — and several months later, left that job to move myself across America and start my own business.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?”
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. You were born to manifest the glory of God that is within you. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
I heard it is by Nelson Mandela, which makes a lot of sense, but I am not sure. Anyone know the source for sure? I appreciate the info very much.
Akemi - thanks for posting that. I believe it is by Marianne Williamson from her book “A Return To Love”.
Hola Mark,
here’s a new favorite:
“I can’t understand why people are afraid of the new ideas, I’m afraid of the old ones.” — John Cage
xoL.
Lisa Beth - Thanks! I like it. Gives one a little push in the bravery department.
Hi Mark,
What a great list of motivational quotes.
One of my favorites is Nike’s slogan. “Just do it”
And another one is “let it go”, but I don’t know who to credit for that one. I like that one as it’s a good reminder not to let things weigh you down.
Hi Barbara - thanks. Nike definitely got a lot out of that slogan, didn’t they? Makes me want to go for a run just hearing it!