Quotes 2 Gold
A collection of quotes submitted
"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."
Source: Chin-Ning Chu
Submitted by: Alan Letzt from Healthcare TM
Why is this quote important to you: I believe it expresses an essential requirement for small business success.
"When we pass from this world we will not be remembered for our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Not by how much you loved, but by how much others loved you. It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells you the kind of life you have lived."Source: Anonymous
Submitted by: Linda Cook from LCA, Inc.
Why is this quote important to you: I find this quote to be the epitome of inspiration.
The man[/woman] who will use his[/her] skill and constructive imagination to see how much he[/she] can give for a dollar, instead of how little he[/she] can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Source: Henry Ford
Submitted by: Frank Corrado
from RingoCircus
Why is this quote important to you: inspirational
"Take the time to stop and listen; you will be surprised at what you hear. 'Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!"
Source: Unknown
Submitted by: Diana Coffman
from Acts for Behavioral Change, LLC
Why is this quote important to you: I work with children with special needs and sometimes it is just important to stop and listen.
"Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
Source: Oscar Wilds
Submitted by: Lori St. Angelo from Meridians Recovery
Why is this quote important to you: Forgiveness and hope
"Bloom where you are planted."
Source: Anonymous
Submitted by: Carrie Webster
Why is this quote important
to you: I find this simple quote very profound after the last 9 months. I was in a serious accident in December of 2009 and am almost recovered. Knowing how close I came to not being here at all, this quote is inspiring me to not only get on with my life, goals and dreams; but to live my life to the fullest and to be happy. I learned the hard way that nothing can be taken for granted.
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Source: Winston Churchill
Submitted by: Rabiya Jilani from Loudoun SBDC
Why is this quote important
to you: In life, you see a lot of people who are successful not because of their knowledge or skills but because of their attitude. Something we all need to remember - stay positive and never loose hope.
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
Source: Vince Lombardi
Submitted by: Robin Suomi from Loudoun SBDC
Why is this quote important to you: I believe attitude is an amazing thing...make yours positive and use it!
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Source: Walt Disney
Submitted by: Ruth Cope from Loudoun SBDC
Why is this quote important to you: It helps me to remember that anything is possible- even the seemingly impossible or ridiculous!
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche
Submitted by: Tracy Kirkman
Why is this quote important to you: Many people have told me that starting a business during a recession is crazy. This is my reminder that not everyone sees the same world I see.
"There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone.
All that we send into the lives of others c
omes back into our own."
Source: 1st Stanza of "A Creed" by Edwin Markham
Submitted by: Cathy Campbell from Loudoun SBDC
Why is this quote important to you: One of Mother's favorite quotes was, "What you take into your mind, you become." Thus, as the first of many summers at a northwoods cabin began, my sister & I were not surprised to find a poster of good thoughts facing us in the outhouse. Even 50 years later, the memorized lines of this stanza still challenge me to get beyond my introverted self to help others. I know few other people who learned core values in an outhouse!
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure."
Submitted by: Lindsey Brooks
Why is this quote important to you: I always have to remind myself, in order to succeed, I must fail along the way and so does everyone else!
"God, grant us the... Serenity to accept things we cannot change,
Courage to change the things we can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference
Patience for the things that take time
Appreciation for all that we have, and
Tolerance for those with different struggles
Freedom to live beyond the limitations of our past ways, the
Ability to feel your love for us and our love for each other and the
Strength to get up and try again even when we feel it is hopeless. "
Submitted by: Heather Ruehs
Why is this quote important to you: I have been going through a hard time in my life battling a chronic illness and this prayer has really helped me.
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
Submitted by: Fernando Beltran from Identika LLC
Why is this quote important to you: Because it rings very true and recognizes that your children are individuals with their own free will and ability to make their own decisions.
"You'll never break a horse if you stay sittin' on the fence!"
Source: Old Cowboy Saying
Submitted by: Rudy Hassall from Winded Bowhunter
Why this quote is important to you: You can't sit back and think goals will be accomplished or that someone else will do it for you.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
Why this quote is important to you: It reminds me to reach further in both my personal life and business. It reminds me what is important in life, and to really look around & do all the things on my "bucket" list.
"A job doesn't get done when it's started with a promise and finsihed with an alibi!"
Source: R. Lewis Bowman
Submitted by: Rudy Hassall from Winded Bowhunter
Why this quote is important to you: Youv’e get to get the job done and do whatever it takes to get it done!
"Professionalism drives success, success drives happiness, happiness drives family, and family drives you!!! No one can stop greatness except yourself always believe in yourself as others do."
Source: William sutton
Submitted by: William Sutton from Keyaar Services Inc
Why is this quote important to you: This quote is important to me because I came from nothing I struggled my whole life from my parents taking me out of school to me growing up in a poverty setting. I know the only way for me to make it is to have faith in the lord above.
"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. "
Source: Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams, our 2nd US President)
Submitted by: Kathi Watts from Gallop Web Services
Why is this quote important to you: Abigail Adams is one of my favorite historical figures. She was ahead of her time with regard to women and human rights. She made this statement during the painful birth of the United States. Given the economic problems and the recent wars our country has been involved with , I think it is a timeless reminder of how difficulties can shape people into doing great things.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Source: Mark Twain
Submitted by: Suzanne Young
Why is this quote important to you: As someone who has traveled all around the world and loves to read about other cultures, I have personally experienced how this heightened awareness of the world changes ones view - not just of others, but of oneself. This can lead to better understanding of other cultures and what we personally value and need. We often talk about seeing a situation from 'someone else's shoes', but rarely apply that as a nation. It is a real wake-up call when you do and a great chance for betterment. In the end, one can only hope better understanding can lead to global peace.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Source: Theodore Roosevelt
Submitted by: Grafton deButts from Loudoun Chamber
Why is this quote important to you: I think about Loudoun's small business community, and how they are out there, in the arena, striving to succeed and coming inches from failure. Though in failure, how they are still greatly respected because they took the risk, stepped into the arena, and are better off that those that "neither know victory nor defeat."
"Life is too short!"
Source: unknown
Submitted by: Shaima Ismati from KoolEarth
Why is this quote important to you: Because it is true to its "saying", life is very short and we must enjoy every minute of it and make the best of it.
"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life. --June 28, 1862 Letter to Quintin Campbell"
Source: Abraham Lincoln
Submitted by: Carol Peters
Why is this quote important to you: It reminds you to adhere to your purpose and not give up.
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
Source: Mother Theresa
Submitted by: Fernando Alvarez
Why is this quote important to you: Because people always say that you cannot feed all the people in the world. Then so be it; Do not feed all them but at least just feed one!
" When you reach the end of your rope, Tie a knot in it and hang on."
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Submitted by: KD Kidder from photoworks
Why is this quote important to you: " This really helped me through last year when I really thought we were going out of business..... but funny enough I grew up next to a gully and we had a rope swing that would swing all the way across...so it really brought back my memory of ""hanging on"" through thick and thin , through trial and joys ; ) KD"
"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."
Source: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Submitted by: Cindy Gavelek from C-Scape, Inc.
Why is this quote important to you: Because I believe it to be true, and I try to live my life this way :).
"In golf and in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference."
Source: Anonymous
Submitted by: Cindy Gavelek from C-Scape, Inc.
Why is this quote important to you: I agree - for both the sport and life, follow through is critical to success.
