Inspiration
Collection Of Twinspiration Dec. 11 – Jan. 10
So 3 months of doing this and I’ve finally found some rhythm that makes it easier to find the quotes. For those of you new to my blog this is something I do once a month and it’s simply a roundup of all the quotes I have posted on Twitter, 1-2 each day. If you’d like to read the other collections you can veiw them by searching for twinspiration. Also, if your on Twitter and would like to get these daily you can follow me: @Jimminy.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ~Charles Darwin
Not a quote it’s a 15 minute film called “Validation” highly reccomended for a lift.
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” ~ Peter Drucker
“A mere whisper among the winds of change, can cause the greatest of societies to crumble and others to rise from the ashes.”
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Benard Shaw
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ~ Buddha
“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.” ~ Blaise Pascal
“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.” ~ Buddha
“Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.” ~ Buddha
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ~ John F. Kennedy
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” ~Clarence, the Angel “It’s a Wonderful Life”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill… is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
“Are you a human being having a spiritual experience, or a spiritual being having a human experience?” ~ Wayne Dyer
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ A. Einstein
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~ Mary Engelbreit
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” ~ Muhammad Ali
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
“The best way you can predict your future is to create it.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” ~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for what ever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” ~ Hora Edwards
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T. S. Eliot
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” ~ James Allen
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” ~ Rollo May
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” ~ Unknown
Stop Crippling Your Potential
Did you come up with a valid excuse for not doing something in 2008? If not, either your a truly honest person who knows how not to hinder their opportunities and doesn’t look for the easy way out, or your a liar. To be fair, I believe the majority is in the latter or you said yes, and don’t worry I came up with an excuse and used it all year round, too. It’s something that’s unavoidable you make an excuse based on facts but doesn’t really have a standing on that area of your life.
With me, I failed out of college and used an excuse all year round that could have been an influence, but I know wasn’t. The night before 3 of my final exams the first semester I suffered severe muscle spasms in my upper back and ended up in the E.R., until 2 in the morning, and also had to pack to leave school so I didn’t sleep at all. It’s all true, except I omitted the fact that I had already slipped to the bottom of my classes, or close to it. I went back for the 2nd semester but gave up on everything in the 3rd week after I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to keep my scholarships. This damn thing has been my crutch and I limped around with it just because I could; well now it’s time to change.
If you share an excuse like that with me; I want you to toss the crutch out and be honest with yourself and with others. You can be great, your just going to have to learn to walk again without having a crutch there to keep you from falling down. You can be whatever you want to, but first you must see it, then you must do it. The world is at your fingertips are you going to take it by storm this year. Here’s a quote to keep you going throughout the year.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
Collection of Twinspiration Nov. 11 – Dec. 10
For anyone who doesn’t know what this is, it is a set of inspirational quotes that I deliver every day on Twitter. I have been doing it for a few months and it’s my way of adding value to my followers. If you would like to read the others you can find a Collection of Twinspiration Oct. 10 – Nov. 10 and you can also follow me @jimminy.
“A true gentleman is calm and at ease; the Small man is fretful and ill at ease.” ~ Confucius, The Analects Book VII, Verse 36
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine
“One’s gratitude is a far greater judge of character than one’s attitude.”
“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.” ~ Horace
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
“There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” ~ Arthur Rubinstein
“In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The world doesn’t revolve around me (or you), but by people caring for others.” ~ A Life Defined By Death
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” ~ Hellen Keller
“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.” ~ Herman Melville
“In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.” ~ George Macdonald
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Today is not the time to be thankful for what we have accomplished and have individually, but what we can accomplish and share together.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.” ~ Ian Malcolm
“Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” ~ Shakespeare
“Little things you take for granted may be something huge and astounding to someone who doesn’t experience them every day.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
“Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.” ~ Randy Pausch
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and help us. Just as surely our unwise acts follow us to plaque and torment us.” ~ George Clason
“We were making the future,” he said, “and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!” ~ H.G. Wells