Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls– family, health, friends, integrity– are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” ― Gary Keller
Tag Archives: inspirational quotes
Fortune
“Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune’s always here.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love and Faith
“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” — Jodi Picoult
Satisfaction at Work
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
–Steve Jobs
Greed
“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.” – Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Hope and Faith
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey
Blame, Feeling Sorry for Yourself
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.” Charles Schulz
Blame
“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
Life
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” ― Charles Dickens
Making Mistakes
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein