Amidst this record-setting shutdown, each day seems filled with more negativity and uncertainty. Negativity about our elected leaders, our core values, our place on the world stage. Uncertainty about the economy, the climate, the future of our children.
Rather than wallow in what could go wrong, I find it better to focus on what will go right. Since I’m no expert at predicting the future, I typically pull out my Word document that contains more than 30 pages of inspirational quotes and let others impact my thoughts…
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” ~ Booker T. Washington
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” ~ Frank A. Clark
“By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.” ~ Ronald Reagan
“What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.” ~ Helen Keller
“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inactions.” ~ John F. Kennedy
“When you do BIG things, you make big mistakes. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley
“The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.” ~ Peter Drucker
“Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.” ~ Joan Wallach Scott
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” ~ Alfred A. Montapert
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.” ~ Will Rogers
