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I LOVE quotes. My notebooks and folders were always covered in quotes during high school. I love little sayings that make sense and have meaning and are easy to remember. There are so many good quotes out there, but I want to share some of my favorites from high school that I kind of forgot about.
To be honest, I could go on and on about what each of these quotes meant to me and what they mean to me now, but I won’t bore you with the details. Besides, I think every quote is subject to each person’s individual interpretation for their own life. Enjoy!
“If I had my life to live over…I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.”
-Nadine Stair
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
“A total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”
“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
“In life, as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.”
“‘Why not?’ is slogan for an interesting life.”
“The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn’t hear the referee.”
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to realize they were impossible.”
“When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.”
“Nothing splendid was ever achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
“If you start everyday conquered, how can you have a good day?”
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
