Last week, as part of a passion project I’m working on (more on that later…), I reached out to some of my closest friends and colleagues for their favorite quotes.
Today, in light of Coach Bill Campbell’s passing (not someone I knew, but someone I deeply admired), I was feeling especially introspective and the responses from my friends came through at just the right time.
What I got back totally blew me away, so I thought I’d share a few of my favorites. It’s amazing what crowdsourcing emotion and motivation can unearth.
Unedited, raw, and by-no-means comprehensive, hopefully these are at least inspirational.
If you have any that have been important to you, please tweet me @arteeninla or comment and share them. And of course, thank you to my friends who shared with me already!
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
- “When I jump, I don’t do it for the landing, I do it for the air.” — Brene Brown
- “The question is not ‘who is going to let me,’ it’s ‘who is going to stop me?’” — Ayn Rand
- “Don’t be disappointed if people refuse to help you. Remember the words of Einstein: ‘I’m thankful to all those who said ‘no’, because of them I did it myself.’”
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” — William Shed
- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Einstein
- “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind — you are the one who hears it.” — Michael Singer
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” — Michelangelo
- “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
- “I sit on clouds and obsess with angels when I should be obsessing on the fact that I can fly.” — atticus
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