Wisdom in 20 words or less

As you can tell from my blog, I’m a real fan of quotes. Perhaps it’s because it’s so well suited to our modern, fast-paced, ADD, instant-gratifying lifestyle – we just want wisdom, no other crap, and we want it now.

So, hope you like these, but also take the time to enjoy them one by one, on its own, and use the wisdom from these words to reflect and inspire your own life. Feel free to share your own!

Courage is about doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared before you do it.
-Eddie Rickenbacker

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
-Michael Jordan

If you believe in yourself, all things are possible.
-Richardo Keens-Douglas

Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
-Mary Tyler Moore

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt you carry in your mind.
-Chae Richardson

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now, and do it.
-William Durant

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage isn’t the towering oak that sees storms come and go, it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
-Alice Swaim

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
-William Makepeace Thackers

I’ve been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. Brave is the only word. It’s the only thing that I ask myself to be.
-Sandra Bullock

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
-Paul Valery

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you couldn’t fail?
-Robert H. Schuller

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be, if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.
-Joey McIntyre (Stay The Same)

If you want it and you dream about it, there’s nothing that going to stop you.
-Chris Witty

Dreams are what makes life tolerable.
-Rudy Ruettiger (Rudy)

Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.
-Kurt Cobain

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.
-Josie Bisset

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
-Sir Winston Churchill

My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.
-Dr. Phil McGraw

Some of the most significant moments in your life happen without you even knowing it.
-Alvin Law

You have to have a darkness…for the dawn to come.
-Harrison Ford

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
-Jimmy Durante

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
-Baba Ram Dass

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you. You just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
-Erica Baican

I can only show you the door. You’re the one who has to walk through it.
-Morpheous (The Matrix)

Sometimes the very thing you’re looking for…is the one thing you can’t see.
-Vanessa Williams (Save The Best For Last)

You’re an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that. Don’t let your uniqueness make you shy. Don’t be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.
-Douglas Pagels

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
-Beverly Sills

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
-Zig Ziglar

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
-Sir Winston Churchill

When you want it the most, there is no easy way out.
-Celine Dion (That’s The Way It Is)

Everyone has something that makes them get out of bed every morning. What’s yours?
-My ex-Boss

Pain is what makes winning so great.
-My friend, Lisa

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long at the first place.
-Author Unknown

I do it because I can. I can because I want to. I want to because you said I couldn’t.
-The Greatest Mom in the world

The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rain and the scorching sun.
-Napoleon Hill

If you’re going through hell, keep on going.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Give your best in everything. Always try to do the right thing. Make sure that if today is your last day, there will be no regrets ever.
-Author Unknown

Life should be enjoyable, too often we think it’s about achievement. The truth is making life enjoyable is an achievement itself.
-Author Unknown

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.
-Franklin Field

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
-Chinese Proverb

Success consist of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-Abraham Lincoln

The steps to success are simple. Decide what you want. Determine the price. Pay the price.
-Bunker Hunt

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
-Sir Winston Churchill

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain

You know your children have grown up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
-Author Unknown

Isn’t it amazing how nice people are to you when they know you’re leaving?
-An old co-worker

There are three types of people in this world; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happended.
-Mary Kay Ash

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde