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Business

Keep your head up. God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

 

Unknown

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. 

Steve Jobs

You will never reach your destination if…

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

Winston Churchill

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

George Clooney

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space.

Chris Hadfield

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them

Seth Godin

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Winston Churchill

You can’t learn to be an entrepreneur by reading a book.

You can’t learn to be an entrepreneur by reading a book. You can only find out by giving it a try.

Alaan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alaan Sugar

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Richard Branson

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.

Richard Branson

The one person who can make your business succeed is not an investor or even a mentor, it is you.

The one person who can make your business succeed is not an investor or even a mentor, it is you.

Richard Branson

If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.

If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.

Richard Branson

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Richard Branson

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.

Steve Jobs

Pure perseverance

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me

Steve Jobs

Comfort & Loss

Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there shouldn’t be any distinction. We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently. Instead, we should make it clear that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s a sign of strength—and we should ensure that people can get the treatment they need.

Michelle Obama, former first lady

You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.

Mary VanHaute

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tell us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia

Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.”

Unknown

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.

Winnie the Pooh

Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

Unknown

An eternal memory…until we meet again: Those special memories will always bring a smile if only I could have you back for just a little while. Then we could sit and talk again just like we used to do, you always meant so very much and always will do too. The fact that you’re no longer here will always cause me pain, but you’re forever in my heart until we meet again.

Unknown

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Helen Keller

When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure

Unkown

Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day…unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.

Unknown

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross​

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

William Inge

What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Justin Perry

Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours

Say not in grief that they are gone, but give thanks that they were yours

Hebrew Proverb

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey

Kenji Miyazawa

Family

Faith, family, and friends

When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.

Barbara Bush

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.

Paul Pearsall

All the greatest virtues

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Winston Churchill

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Mother Teresa

Friendship

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tennessee Williams

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.

Irish Proverb

Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other, loving each other and being crazy together.

O. Henry, Heart of the West

Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.

A.R. Asher

People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.

Les Brown

A true friend is someone

“A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

Bernard Meltzen

Think of those extra special people. 

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people.

Fred Rogers

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Misty Copeland

Humanity

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never apologize for having high standards

Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

It is preoccupation with possession

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. 

Marian Wright Edelman

Take some time to think of those extra special people

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people. 

Fred Rogers

The soul is awakened through service

The soul is awakened through service.

Erica Jong

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. 

Roy T. Bennett

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

Think of those extra special people. 

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people.

Fred Rogers

The soul is awakened through service.

The soul is awakened through service.

Erica Jong

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is…

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Imagine this: a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving

Imagine this: a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, that communicate, that raise their children in love, have a better rate of becoming better human beings and that’s what we need to create.

Black men, it starts with you, it’s done man, we can’t be trash no more. We have to be better. Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important. We have always meant something. We have always succeeded regardless. And now is the time. I ain’t waiting.

John Boyega, Star Wars Actor

One day our descendants will think it incredible

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Franklin Thomas

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

Author Unknown

The way to heal society of its violence

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect

Manitonquat

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth, even an opponent’s.

Bernard Haring

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

This is the most basic kind of peace work

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work

Thich Nhat Hanh

A loving person lives in a loving world

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror

Ken Keyes, Jr.

The ultimate measure of a person

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Marian Anderson

The beauty of anti-racism

The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.

Ijeoma Oluo

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson

It is not our differences that divide us

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences

Audre Lorde

In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.

In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.

Angela Davis

An eye for an eye makes the world blind.

An eye for an eye makes the world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness #blacklivesmatter

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hating each other because of

Hating each other because of their colour is wrong and it doesn’t matter which colour does the hating. It’s just wrong.

Muhammed Ali

If tolerance, respect and equity

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Kofi Annan

I have a dream that

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr

Inspirational

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

If there is no struggle, there is no progress

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

Light tomorrow with today

Light tomorrow with today.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Kettering

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.

Helen Keller

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

John Maxwell

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

A person is the product of their dreams

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. 

Maya Angelou

Sing the song that only you can sing

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. 

Naval Ravikant

Set the world on fire.

Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire. 

Catherine of Siena

You have to be willing to look like an idiot

You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term. 

Shane Parrish

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Justin Perry

The great man creates.

The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing.

Maxime Lagacé

Sing the song that only you can sing

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Naval Ravikant

If you are always trying to be normal

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou

Be who you were created to be

Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire.

Catherine of Siena

Success is not final, failure

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Love & Relationships

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Kettering

When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting

When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.

Jaime Lichauco

Someone will walk into your life

One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.

Anonymous

There are two kinds of sparks

There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes… it’s eternal, don’t forget that.

Timothy Oliveira

We cannot decide to love

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There’s no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy; there’s nothing we can do.

Nina George

My heart might be bruised

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. I’ll find love again.

Paulo Coelho

The beginning of love

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find it them.

Thomas Merton

Your task is not to seek love

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Donald Miller

Motivation & Success

Believe you can and you’re halfway there

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

Champions keep playing until they get it right

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

Failure hurts but passes quickly

Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever.

Shane Parrish

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the (stuff) that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

Sing the song that only you can sing

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Naval Ravikant

If you are always trying to be normal

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou

Be who you were created to be

Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire.

Catherine of Siena

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Winston Churchill

If you are working on

If you are working on something that you really care about, You don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

It’s not whether you get

It’s not whether you get knocked down, It’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Spiritual

Never apologize for having high standards

Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. 

Booker T. Washington

The soul is awakened through service

The soul is awakened through service.

Erica Jong

Love the sinner and hate the sin

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

A person is the product of their dreams.

So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

Maya Angelou

The soul is awakened through service.

The soul is awakened through service.

Erica Jong

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is…

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Roy T. Bennett

The desire to reach hearts is wise

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Do not be afraid; I am with you all the time, listening and seeing

Do not be afraid; I am with you all the time, listening and seeing

Surah Taha 20:46

If you are grateful, I will give you more

If you are grateful, I will give you more

Soorah Ibrahim v.7

Do what is beautiful

Do what is beautiful. Allah loves those who do what is beautiful.

Surah Baqarah 2:195

Wisdom

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.

Les Brown

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Teddy Roosevelt

Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it

Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it.

Albus Dumbledore

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

Author Unknown

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. 

Booker T. Washington

If you are living for the weekend you are already dead

If you are living for the weekend you are already dead. 

Bill Masur

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. 

George Clooney

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. 

Steve Jobs

The great man creates

The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing. 

Maxime Lagacé

You have to be willing to look like an idiot

You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term. 

Shane Parrish

Don’t feel entitled

Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for. 

Marian Wright Edelman

If you are living for the weekend you are already dead.

If you are living for the weekend you are already dead.

Bill Masur

You will never reach your destination if…

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

Winston Churchill

Great things are not accomplished by…

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

A person is the product of their dreams.

So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

Maya Angelou

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

George Clooney

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Roy T. Bennett

The great man creates.

The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing.

Maxime Lagacé

The desire to reach hearts is wise

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

The pessimist sees difficulty In

The pessimist sees difficulty In every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill