Quotation Sunday

I keep a little quotation book and every time I find a quote that inspires me, I add it in.  Here are some of my favourites:


"Before you wish for any one thing, first examine how happy are those who already have it." - unknown

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." - Denis Waitley

"Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behaviour does." - unknown

"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness." - John Wanamaker

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - unknown

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."  - Henry David Thoreau

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."  - Confucius

"Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present.  Only you give it power."  - Oprah

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."  - Corrie Ten Boom

"Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."  - Albert Einstein

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."  - Dale Carnegie

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." - unknown

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Failure is a sign post to turn you in another direction."  - Oprah

"Decide that you want it more than you're afraid of it."  - Bill Cosby

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."  - Roger W. Babson

"All that glitters is not gold." - Shakespeare

"Too many people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't know." - unknown

"Don't cry over the past; it's gone.  Don't stress about the future; it hasn't arrived.  Live in the present and make it beautiful."  - unknown

"If everyone in the world brought their problems and placed them on a table, you'd be happy to leave with your own." - unknown

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, in playing a tough hand well."  - Robert Louis stevenson

"Worrying is wasted time.  Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you."  - Oprah

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden

"It's amazing how effective it is to ask 'is this the best use of my time right now?' throughout the day."  - Hellen Buttigieg

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." - Doug Ivester

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."  - Benjamin Disraeli

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
 - Confucious

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell

"Your attitude is always your choice, so you might as well choose the attitude that will serve you the very best." - unknown

"Too many people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't know."





What are your favourite quotations?  I'd love to have more to add to my book!