What's your goto motivational quote?

Yesterday was one of those days...

By the end of the day I was stressed and crabby. Usually when this happens, I like to reach for a quote to help put things back into perspective. Yesterday I remembered this one that my cousin, who works in hospice, shared with me.

When I'm stressed I try to remember something a patient much too young told me right before he died. He said that he missed being stressed and when I asked why, he stated "Being stressed means that you have a purpose. That you are needed and relied on."

Obviously, that straightened me out real quick. Another one of my favorite quotes, which is a little more light, is the one in the cover image! What's your favorite goto quote when you need a pick me up?!

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

This is a famous Bill Gates quote but it wouldn't shock me if he was quoting someone else:

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

I've been using that a lot lately, in advice to myself and others. I think it's got a lot of truth and helps put progress and time into perspective.

[Joe Doss]

This is one of my favorites from Michael Scott...

[Tim Smith]

Dang! Beat me to it!

[LyAVALE95]

This one is really good.

[Kenneth Olsen]

My all-time favorite quote...

" Don't say you don't have enough time.
  You have exactly the same number of hours per day
  that were given to Helen Kellar, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
  Mother Theresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
  Albert Einstien. "

      - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

[Sam Rose]

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

THIS!!!! 😍

[Cécile Lebleu]

Amazing. And, may I add, a very likely longer lifespan with modern medicine being a thing.

[beernutz]

Here is mine:

Let's think of the positives as personal, general, and permanent.
Let's think of the negatives as impersonal, specific, and temporary.
Let's actually go out of our way to inject these things into our discussions.

-Original author unknown

[Ben Halpern]

I like that.

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Love it! This reminds me of something my grandma always used to say,

If they aren't talking about you, then you aren't doing anything

[Ben Sinclair]

When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is what the client's getting.

- me.

[Harsh Saglani]

I see what you did there!

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

😂 I LOVE this!

[Charles D. Villard]

There was a comic called Zen Pencils that ran a strip quoting writer Charles Bukowski. The artist was asked to take down the strip by Bukowski's publishers, but the Internet never forgets.

[Exequiel Beker]

When I'm facing a really difficult bug, I remember a phrase from one of my favorite videogames, Final Fantasy X: "This is it. (...). It all begins here".

In the same way, if I'm losing hope, I repeat another one from the same videogame series, Final Fantasy XIII:

"(...) We live to make the impossible possible. That's our focus"

It's been a hard few months and those phrases are still giving me strength to move forward

[Tyler V. (he/him)]

I'm a huge John Green fan and these two are often what I reach for when I need to remember that it's all going to be OK.

[Ryan Smith]

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." Often wrongly attributed to Buddha, but is from Edward de Bono. My shortened version of it is "Saying vs. doing."

I like this one because in development there can be strong ideas or regular meetings to brainstorm/generate ideas. Sometimes there is too much emphasis placed on what is the "best" idea. At the end of the day, if the best solutions are never implemented, what good are they? Talking about ideas can be fun, but consistently leaving those discussions without any follow up actions is draining in the long run. Time spent preparing and talking about ideas can sometimes be better spent on doing something to make progress.

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Could not agree more!