Daniel Lynch > Daniel's Quotes

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
― Joel Osteen

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
― George Lucas

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”
― Beth Moore, So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford

“Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise