Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Quote - I might choose to take one of these and sit with it for a moment

“A bit of a negative thought is unlikely to give me a lot of a positive life.”

“A year from now, I will likely wish I had started today.” - Karen Lamb

“I am unlikely to solve a problem by using a similar kind of thought I used when I created it.” Albert Einstein

“When I am unable to change a situation, resolution comes through the way I choose to handle it within myself.” Jerry Coffee, Navy Captain

“A chain of a habit is too weak to be felt until it is nearly too strong to be broken.” Samuel Johnson, writer

“Life is not so much a matter of holding good cards, rather of playing a poor hand well.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is a bit like a game of cards. The hand I am dealt is determinism; the way I play it is free will.” Jawaharial Nehru, prime minister of India

“I might have power over my mind – more so than power over an outside event. The more I realize this, the more I find strength.” Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

“There is not a thing either so good or so bad, that a thought might make more or less so.” Shakespeare

“Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash I have, so I choose to spend it a bit wisely.” Kim Lyons, personal trainer

“As I want to be happy, I put a bit more of my effort into controlling the sail, rather than the wind.”

“A car has a small rear-view mirror to see the past and a large windshield to view the future.” Auto Commercial

“Rather than dwell in the past, or dream of the future, I concentrate my mind a bit more on the present moment.” Buddha

“A bit more successful person is one who can lay a firmer foundation with a brick that another has thrown at them.” David Brinkley, newscaster

“A person without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” Thomas Carlyle

“Change is inevitable, while improvement takes a bit of effort.”

“I take a bit more optimistic rather than a pessimistic view of myself and my future – and I attempt to avoid taking this to an unrealistic extreme.” Robert Ellis

“After all, a computer might crash, a person might die, a relationship might fall apart. A better thing I might do is breathe and reboot.” Sarah Jessica Parker, actress

“I accent my positive a bit more and delete my negative a bit more.” Donna Karan, fashion designer

“It is a bit easier to make a decision when I know what a value of mine is.” Roy Disney

“As I fail a bit to prepare, I prepare a bit to fail.” Benjamin Franklin, statesman

“My past is a story existing only in my mind. I might look, analyze, understand and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, I chuck it.” Marianne Williamson, author

“I can’t go back and start a new beginning, however I can start today and make a new ending.” Mary Robinson, Irish president

“I can’t have a bit better tomorrow when I’m only thinking about yesterday.” Charles Kettering, inventor

“Success is getting a bit of what I want - happiness is accepting what I get.” Dave Gardner, comedian

“Rather than let another define me, I define myself.” Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO

“I accept responsibility for the direction of my own life. I know that it is me who will get me where I want to go - no one else.” Les Brown, author

“Rather than history repeating itself, it seems to rhyme.” Mark Twain

“I am developing a bit more serenity to accept a thing I cannot change; a bit more courage to change a thing I can; and a bit more of the wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr

“A choice I make has a tendency to have an end result ” Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker

“Where I came from is important; where I’m choosing to go counts much more.” Ella Fitzgerald, singer

“Character – a willingness to accept a bit of responsibility for one’s own life – is a source from which a bit of self-respect springs.” Joan Didion, writer

“I was looking outside myself for a bit of strength and confidence, and found it comes from within. It is here all the time, waiting to be further expressed.” Anna Freud, child psychologist

“How I tend to see myself is a way I’ll likely end up being. How might I challenge that view of myself?” Kenneth Cole, clothing designer

“I put in effort to keep sight of a fact that just being is fun.” Katharine Hepburn, actress

“A difficulty, an ordeal, is simply to make a start.” Zane Grey, author

“Desire is half of a life; indifference is half of a death.” Kahlil Gibran, writer

“It is not an impossibility that tends to fill me with a deep despair, rather it is a possibility that I have not put in a bit more effort to realize.” Robert Mallet, geologist

“I can perhaps change a thing as I a bit more accept it.” Carl Jung, psychiatrist

“A secret of happiness is, rather than doing what I like, liking a bit more what I have to do.” James Barre


(A 'quote' here has been made first person - it has been made a suggestion, rather than telling - it has been made singular, rather than plural)