Jacqueline > Jacqueline's Quotes

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.”
― Wayne Gretzky

“Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them. ”
― Lesley M. M. Blume, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
― Martha Washington

“I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
― Libba Bray

“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”
― Libba Bray

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”
― Elvis Presley

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”
― Langston Hughes

“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned