#iona

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#ad #always #am #because #black

It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inspirational #death

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hurt #inspirational #life #relationships #sorry

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#inspirational #experience

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. ↗

— Arnold Beisser

#peace #psychology #change

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#fails #hang #i #mean #record

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#baseball #becoming #early #i #lying

The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands. ↗

— Jocelyn Green

#inspirational #negative-thoughts #worry #beauty

Stop living within the confines of how others define you! You weren't created to live their life; you were created to live yours - so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring the passion back into your goals, dreams, ambitions, careers, and relationships by reclaiming control of your own life. Be unapologetically YOU! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#be-yourself #dilute #dreams #happiness-passion-goals #inspirational