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Quotes of the Day: Because We Could All Use A Little Dose of Inspiration and Motivation…

November 17, 2022 by Joi Leave a Comment

"Nothing Great was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing Great was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A while back I had a feature on the self help blog called “Quotes of the Day.” I’d post a great inspirational or motivational quote, along with a graphic (almost always starring an animal or two… what can I say… I’m a modern day Snow White, completely obsessed with animals).

Life gets pretty busy sometimes, causing us to often pull away from certain routines. Unfortunately, I dropped this one and simply never picked it back up.

Until now!

I was sitting and spending time with my beloved journal/planner this morning and was in the process of writing down my daily morning entries…

  • Bible verse of the day
  • Vocabulary word of the day (sign up at Dictionary.com!)
  • Quote of the day (one I pull from daily reading that inspires or motivates me)

It occurred to me just how much I enjoy having a particularly inspiring or motivating quote to carry around with me throughout the day and I thought of you.

Yes, you!

I want to make sure you have one each day for your pocket, to pull out whenever you need a little company. I will post them as often as possible on Mondays – Fridays, beginning today with a wonderful quote above from Ralph Waldo Emerson. My life is beautifully busy, so I doubt there will EVER be a whole week with “Quotes of the Day,” but I’ll try to get as many done as possible.

Have a wonderful, enthusiastic rest of the week! ~ Joi (“Joy“)

Filed Under: Daily Quote, Positive Thought Tagged With: inspirational quotes, motivational quotes, quote graphic, quote of the day, Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

One of the Best Approaches to Habits… Coax Them Down the Stairs (Advice from Mark Twain)

January 5, 2022 by Joi Leave a Comment

Quote About Habits by Mark Twain

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” ~  Mark Twain

This is one of my favorite quotes about habits and it isn’t very surprising that it’s from one of the brightest minds to ever live, Mark Twain. Anyone who has ever tried to break a bad habit (let me tell you, I have a French fry habit that may just be my companion for life!) knows that it’s impossible to simply throw it out with the trash. I mean, you could try but it will almost always find its way back into your home.

Homing pigeons should return to roost as well as bad habits!

Not only should each individual bad habit be coaxed slowly and methodically out the door, we should always try to remember to deal with one bad habit (and/or implementing a new good habit) at a time. I think that’s why New Years Resolutions often fail. We aim at too many targets… forgetting we have but one arrow.

I wish you the best of luck in making and breaking any habits you have in your sights. You look perfect to me but if you have any you want to make or any you want to break, I wish you all the best. Take them one at a time, be patient with yourself, and when you cave in and have an order of fries at Culver’s, don’t beat yourself up. You can have the coleslaw NEXT time! (Sorry, that last one was for me.)

~ Joi (“Joy”)

P.S. Anyone else craving Culver’s now??

Filed Under: Daily Quote, General, Self Growth, Self Help Tagged With: Daily Quote, habit quote, quote about habits, quote graphic

Enthusiasm Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson Hit the Nail on the Head….

December 28, 2021 by Joi Leave a Comment

"Nothing Great was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote About Enthusiasm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m going to start adding daily (M-F) quotes and quote graphics again on the self help blog and thought I’d jump back in with one of my favorite quotes. The wonderful Ralph Waldo Emerson left us many great quotes but this is one of my favorites.

Enthusiasm is often the secret ingredient that carries someone from average to great. You see it with actors, actresses, writers, athletes, restaurant servers, doctors, nurses… anyone we count on is instantly more valuable when they’re enthusiastic about what they’re doing!

My overly anal side is pretty annoyed with myself for beginning these daily posts now instead of waiting for the New Year and starting fresh but, what can I say… I was enthusiastic!

Sorry, I had to. ~ Joi (“Joy”)


Filed Under: Daily Quote, Positive Thought Tagged With: enthusiasm, quote about enthusiasm, quote graphic, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Changing Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa

January 8, 2019 by Joi Leave a Comment

Mother Teresa Quote About Smiling

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
~ Mother Teresa

This Mother Teresa quote about life is a sermon and an education in 16 sentences.  The simplicity of this great woman was part of her beauty.  What takes the rest of us billions upon billions of words to convey, it was a though Mother Teresa said, “Give me 16 sentences and I’ll get my point across.”

And that she did.  Every single time.  She’d have been a Twitter rock star.

More Mother Teresa Quotes:

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

 

 

Filed Under: Daily Quote, Positive Thought Tagged With: inspirational quotes, Mother Teresa quotes, quote graphic

Beautiful Anne Frank Quote About Making the World a Better Place

October 21, 2017 by Joi Leave a Comment

Anne Frank Quote Graphic

Anytime I hear someone bemoan the crazy, often “mean” and heartbreaking world we live in, my first thought is this: The more pain there is, the more opportunities there are.  Frankly, there are far too many people preaching, protesting, and lecturing these days without nearly enough of us rolling up our sleeves and going out on the proverbial limb to help others.

As the amazing Anne Frank said, we don’t have to wait a single moment before helping make the world a better place.  And she’s right about something else… it is wonderful.

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Daily Quote, Make a Difference, Positive Thought Tagged With: Anne Frank quote, quote graphic, quote of the day

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