Alpine Link's Favorite Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady to the 32nd president of the United States

Brian Tracy

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Brian Tracy, self development author and motivational speaker

William Barrett

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last.

William Barrett, 1913-1992

Rex Stout

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Rex Stout, novelist

Soren Kierkegaard

Do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher, theologian, poet, writer

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown Jr., Author

J.K. Rowling

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

J.K. Rowling, author (born 1965)

John Wooden

Manage yourself, so others won’t have to.

John Wooden, legendary college basketball coach

Theodore Rubin

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin, American psychiatrist and author

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (1833-1870)

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (1913-1980)

Adlai Stevenson II

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Stevenson II, politician and diplomat

Penelope Cruz

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.

Penelope Cruz, Actor

Zig Ziglar

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

Laozi

Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.

Laozi, philosopher

M. Scott Peck

Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist

Sophocles

One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles, Greek Tragedian (500 BC)

Washington Irving

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving, writer

Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison, 17th century English writer

Moliere

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere, Actor and Playwright