COVID-19 upended our lives. And now, it feels like all we can do is wonder about when the pandemic will end and what our lives will look like in the aftermath.
Here is some inspiration to keep us moving forward with the belief that there are better days to come. Because it won’t be like this forever.
- “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill.
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
- “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
- “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
- When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
- The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
- “The first step to success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
- “They keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.” – Ralph Martson
