I’ll step out of the way and let the quotes speak for themselves:
“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“All is flux, nothing stays still.” – Heraclitus
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven” – John Milton
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
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These are all so amazing and thought-provoking! I tweeted this post as a thanks for putting this together.
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November 20, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Thanks for these Charlie. I may write a post around each individual quote.
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Wonderful! You’ve done a masterful job curating this list.
Wonderful, Charlie. I just printed them out and put them on my fridge. Love the Anne Frank one – probably my favorite. Have a fantastic day!
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Nice, inspirational quotes. Thank you.
Thank you, these are awesome! I just want to share 2 that I really love although not sure who they are by:
1. There’s no place you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
2.Will the boy of yesterday respect the man of tomorrow!
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Lovely quotes.
A fave of mine is: “You are what you choose today, not what you’ve chosen before” – Dr. Wayne Dyer (guy’s a genius
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Very inspirational, just what I needed.
Thank You!
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These are all such great quotes!
With Thanksgiving coming up I’ve been thinking about everything that I am grateful for and this quote is really quite perfect for this week:
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
Thank you so much for sharing! I will be sure to syndicate!
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Great set of quotes. Keep sharing. Many Blessings!
A great collection of quotes but the first one (“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb) does not make sense to me. How can anyone stand up more times than they fall?
I like this one:“ Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton
Hi Bengt, It means they got up again, in other words don’t ever give up.
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Hi John,
That quote is about not giving up but the numbers still don’t add up. Fall seven and stand up eight does not make sense. Fall seven and get up seven is the best you can do, then you end up standing.
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maybe it has something to do with learning from your mistakes. I bet that’s what it meant.
love the quotes, but the Gandhi quote is the most inspiring
You stand up first, you don’t fall first!
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February 3, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Yeah guys… you have to be standing to fall. Therefore, as long as you are standing, you’ve stood once more times than fallen.
I thought that too. Though I can see the meaning (“one step back, two steps forward”), it just dosen’t add up. How do you stand up when you’re already standing?
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December 27, 2009 at 7:58 pm
A quick clarification on the math here. You have to stand up the first time, so that counts as one.
This diagram is rough, but it’ll show the point:
^= Stand Up
v= Fall
1^ – 1v – 2^- 2v – 3^ – 3v – 4^- 4v – 5^ – 5v – 6^ – 6v – 7^ – 7v – 8^
So, there are 7 v’s and 8 ^’s – or…fall seven times, stand up eight times.
It ends on “stand up” to stress the importance of continual effort to endure through past failures.
We start with different assumptions. Charlie assumes the first action is standing up (how did you get down and why don’t you count that fall?) while I assume we start standing which is the normal position.
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December 28, 2009 at 8:06 am
While standing may be our “normal” position, we don’t start that way.
At a given point in time, we each learned to stand up. How did we get down? We came from the womb unable to stand – in that sense, we’re down. It’s not a fall because we were never up to start with.
However normal standing may be for us, it’s an action that requires a choice and effort. After all, it’s going counter to gravity. The fact that we don’t think about it – and that it’s a small choice followed by a small effort – doesn’t negate either the choice or the effort.
Details aside, the meaning of the saying is more important.
I think it’s hilarious how caught up in the details every gets.
What’s even funnier, is this Japanese proverb makes twenty times more sense than most from that culture.
We westerners are silly. It reminds me of that story (parable perhaps?) where you have an American person and a Japanese person, both looking at a fish tank. When asked to describe what they see, the American describes the fish, and the Japanese person describes the tank.
Not really related, but sort of interesting.
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