I took a blogging break in December (you noticed, right?). This post begins my 6th year of blogging!
Here's my annual first post of the year. All year long whenever I need some quick inspiration, I just look at the top of my daily to-do agenda where I keep a list of motivational quotes I gather. Whenever I find a new one, I add it to the list. I post them front and center to inspire me as I work on The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking.
When the fight seems impossible, I read what Einstein said. Or Edison. Or Zappos.com.
Today I start a brand-new list, so enjoy these now. I hope they motivate you as much as they do me. Most of these come from my fellow Twitterati, so I've included their Twitter names after each quote in case you want to follow them.
Got a fav quote of your own? Leave it as a comment. I've already begun my 2012 list and could use a few good quotes to start the year right.
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"They didn't know it was impossible, so they did it.”—Mark Twain
“Ending human trafficking is not idealistic or naive. It is audacious. And it is people of audacity who change the world.”—Rob Morris (@RobLOVE146)
“Justice, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”—@jujulee89
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."—G.K. Chesterton (via @RobLOVE146)
"Endure. In the wilderness, either your issue will die or you will."—Casey Doss (via @theramp)
"When I look at the [pruning] work Nancy did with the roses today, I realize that there is a sense of relief. No need to support the branches that will no longer flower. It was good, but now is a burden."—Jon Swanson (@jnswanson)
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."—Milton Berle (via @gailtiv)
"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline."—Jim Collins, from Good to Great
"The start and finish are easy. It is in the long middle of the race where preparation and commitment matter most."—Doug Picirillo (@doug_picirillo)
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."—Conrad Hilton
"Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, 'But we knew nothing about this,' does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He who guards your life know it? Will He not repay each person according to what he has done?"—Proverbs 24:11-12
"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."—Pablo Picasso
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."—Steven Wright (via @PhilCooke)
"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."—Arnold Palmer (via @Jenny_Shain)
"Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."—Seth Godin (@thisissethsblog)
“Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."—1 Chronicles 28:20
“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”—Nelson Mandela (via @HopeMore)
“A year from now you will wish you had started today."—Karen Lamb (via @JohnStanko)
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”—Mario Andretti
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.”—Queen Victoria (via @BeAuthor)
Love without a doubt, love God with all your heart.
Alvin
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"If we ever forget that we are one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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