What is your favourite inspirational quote and why?

Tammyjane33

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is safe and well and keeping as positive as possible in the current circumstances that are we are all in at the moment with the (convid 19) please can you post your favourite inspirational quote below ?❤️

leeCal

‘ My favourite quote is
’failure is an event not a person’ (I think it’s by ziggler?)
As far as I’m concerned no one is a failure but we can sometimes fail and by failing we often learn valuable lessons which help us to succeed next time when we try again. Sometimes we even learn that something isn’t for us or doesn’t suit us and so we don’t try it again, that’s okay too. 

leeCal

‘For fast acting relief...try slowing down’
lily tomlin. 

Sometimes I rush around get nowhere fast and catastrophising, I should bear this quote in mind more often!

Tammyjane33

@leeCal thank you for sharing I've not heard that quote before. 

Chloe_Alumni

I love the words of Maya Angelou! It's always so delicate and well put.

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away."

"Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."

Acko

 “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happy times when miserable”
       Dante’s Alighieri.

Chloe_Alumni

Welcome to the community @Acko! Thanks for sharing that quote with us.

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I wouldn't necessarily say I have a favourite quote, just a lot of sayings and mottos that I admire.

Recently I've enjoyed the motto of the explorer Sir Francis Drake, which was "Sic parvis magner" - greatness from small beginnings.I like it because it's Latin and very few people will know what it means unless they go out of their way to learn and translate it. Plus it's motivational and fun to say  

CJ61

Sun Tzu the Japanese philosopher said
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."

Having been abused and mistreated many times throughout my life I take comfort that eventually what goes around comes around and people get their comeuppance. 

And one of my favourite Latin phrases
In Vino Veritas

In wine there is truth

sakinah

THIS IS A GREAT QUOTE OF MINE!! GIVES ME STRENGTH AND CAN SO RELATE TO IT!!

REDSAPPHIRE (SAKINAH) x   

kaiasparrow

It's a song lyric but this line from Marina and the Diamonds' "Forget" - 

"All the time I've wasted chasing rabbits down the hole, when I was born to be the tortoise and I was born to walk alone"

I've always felt a lot of pressure to live my life at the same fast pace as everyone else. I get so overwhelmed and my history of mental illness stemmed from a lot of pressure to be successful and live a certain way from a young age. So when I heard this song I loved these few lines as it made me realise it is ok to take life at your own pace and we don't all have to live the same lives. It is ok that I have made mistakes and I might be "behind" some of my peers now but that's ok - I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't.

calicia

There were 2 roads.
And i took the one less travelled by.
And that has made all the difference
Robert frost (american poet)

calicia

Dont look backwards
You dont live there anymore

Cher_Alumni

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde.

leeCal

‘When there’s always biscuits in the tin where’s the fun in biscuits?!’
from men behaving badly.

colet

See the ability in disability 
I have made a t shirt with it on 

Tammyjane33

@colet I love this one! Thank you for sharing. Hope your well  

Tammyjane33

Cher_Scope said:

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde.

Love this one, thank you for sharing.  

Tammyjane33

leeCal said:

‘When there’s always biscuits in the tin where’s the fun in biscuits?!’
from men behaving badly.

@leeCal thankyou for sharing, I haven't come across this quote before but it's great.  

Tammyjane33

kaiasparrow said:

It's a song lyric but this line from Marina and the Diamonds' "Forget" - 

"All the time I've wasted chasing rabbits down the hole, when I was born to be the tortoise and I was born to walk alone"

I've always felt a lot of pressure to live my life at the same fast pace as everyone else. I get so overwhelmed and my history of mental illness stemmed from a lot of pressure to be successful and live a certain way from a young age. So when I heard this song I loved these few lines as it made me realise it is ok to take life at your own pace and we don't all have to live the same lives. It is ok that I have made mistakes and I might be "behind" some of my peers now but that's ok - I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't.

@kaiasparrow, thank you for sharing this, I haven't come across this song or lyrics before so I will take a look on Google  

Tammyjane33

sakinah said:

THIS IS A GREAT QUOTE OF MINE!! GIVES ME STRENGTH AND CAN SO RELATE TO IT!!

REDSAPPHIRE (SAKINAH) x   

@sakinah thankyou for sharing this is great.