Favorable Quotes

A few of my favorite quotes that inspire me in life, business & design. Sometimes you just need a little motivation:

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

-Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

- Colin Powell  

    Take your pleasures seriously.

-Charles Eames

  The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. 

- Robert Cushing  

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-Henry David Thoreau

 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

-Patrick Henry

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

-Frank Loyd Wright 

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.

-Owen Feltham

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

-Herbert Bayard Swope

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

-William Shakespeare

 Every artist was first an amateur.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 We are still masters of our fate.

We are still captains of our souls.

-Winston Churchill

  Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

-John Quincy Adams

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.

-John Keats

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.

-Thomas Jefferson

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

-SNTC