No desistas

Spanish

Cuando vayan mal las cosas
como a veces suelen ir,
cuando ofrezca tu camino
sólo cuestas que subir,
cuando tengas poco haber
pero mucho que pagar,
y precises sonreír
aún teniendo que llorar,
cuando el dolor te agobie
y no puedas ya sufrir...
descansar acaso debes,
pero nunca desistir.

Cuando todo esté peor...
más debemos insistir

English:

When things go wrong
as they do sometimes
When your road offers
only hills to climb
when you have so little
and so much to pay
and you have to smile
even when you need to cry
When the pain oppresses you
and you cannt suffer more...
you may need to rest,
but never give up.

When everything gets worse
we should insist more.

some of my favorites

"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out that it was ourselves" - Robert Frost

"A journey of a 1000 Miles, begins with a single step"

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead "

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time -TS Eliot

Quotes by Paolo Coelho

"This isn't a strange place, it is a new one."

"We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."


More Coelho Quotes on Stephs Blog here

Meaning of Faith

We know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we will be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely. -Tim Cahill, travel writer

thanx Juanita

Journey

The road of someday leads to a town called nowhere. [unknown]


"Only dead fish swim with the current"(Unknown)


The roads are for journeys, not destinations

Moments

Yesterday - is a history,
Toworrow - is a mystery,
TODAY is a GIFT,
That's why is it called "The PRESENT"

"one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name" by Walter Scott

"A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds and not years" by R.B. Sheridan

"Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy & passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it"
-Marcia Wieder

Learning

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" Chinese Proverb

'Failure is not a set back, but an opportunity to start again afresh'

'Doing some thing the way it has been done before and expecting a different result is the true definition of INSANITY.'

Imposible is not a fact - it's an opinion

The mind cannot be silent. When there is silence there is no mind.-Osho

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall-Jim Rohn

"For every problem under the sun, there is a remedy or there's none.
if there is one, then go find it. if not then never mind it...!!!

Excellence

Best, you've got to be the bestyou've got to change the world,and use this chance to be heard.You're time is now.

"Champions aren´t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will, but the will must be stronger than the skill." - Muhammad Ali

"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it." -Samuel Johnson

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." A.Einsten

"The world is to large, to measure with all people. I just have to become better as I am right now."

"Only you can turn your dreams into reality and, in life, as business there are no failures and only quitters"

"If you would not be forgottenAs soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worthy reading,Or do things worth the writing." Ben Franklin

' There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living'Nelson Mandela

" its fun doing the impossible " - Walt Disney

"Success is a journey, not a destination..."

"Your greatest challenge isn't someone else. It's the aching in your lungs and the burning in your legs and the voice inside you that yells 'Can't!' But you don't listen. You push harder and hear the voice that whispers 'Can.' And you realize that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are." (taken from Juanita's Blog)

Vision

"I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free"Michelengelo Buonarroti

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.- - - James Allen

"If you can dream it, you can do it" -Walt Disney

"When the winds of change start to blow, some build shelters, others; windmills"

Belief

"Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Les Brown

"If you really want something, the whole Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it" from Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

"Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are?One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." – From “Ulysses”

"Believe in what you do. Do what you believe in."

"Come to the edge He said. We are afraid, they replied. Come to the edge He said. They came, He pushed them - and they flew."- Confucius

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.- M.KEMAL ATATURK

'When i am at the Edge, i know i'll either have wings to fly or ground to stand on'

Perception

"The eyes that look are many, but the eyes that see are few; be proactive, be the change that you want to see in future"

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."Thomas Alva Edison

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, you probably havent slept in the same room with a mosquito."

"A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood" -chinese proverb

"Anytime you think of a hundred things to frown about think of a thousand things to smile”

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."- Frederick Langbridge

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." -Thomas Dewar

"There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." - A.Einsten

'Life is more than what you see, it's true meaning is in what you dont see' - Bomi

Love

"love your job, love who you are, love everything you do"

"Nothing in the World has ever been accomplished without passion."

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius

"If a drop of rain would be so havy like my heart after seeing you
I would cover all the world with water,
If a sunshine of the sun would be so beautiful like u'r eyes
The world would be full of light.
If the fire would be so worm licke u'r smile
Than hell would be hevean,
And if all the people would be so beautiful like u
Than all people would be angels ....."

“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.”
Sasha Azevedo

Personal Development

"Let him that wants to move the world first move himself" - Socrates

"The man who wins others, has strength.The man who wins himself, is powerful."

“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at his feet”. - Mahatma Gandhi

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.
Jim Rohn

"The world is a book, and those who never leave home only read the first page." -- St. Augustine.

Buddhist cure for depression: Get over yourself and go do something nice for someone you'll never see again.

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple".
Oscar Wilde

'Do not what the world needs. Instead, do what makes you come alive because the world needs people who come alive'

'There is no shame in losing to your better. There is only shame in losing to laziness.'

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." Buddha

The Future

"The best way to predict the future is to create it" Peter Drucker

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you've imagined."-Unknown

'Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.'-George Bernard Shaw

"Give a man a fish, it will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, it will feed him for the rest of his life"- unknown

"Build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life" - unknown

"The choices you make, not the chances you take determine your destiny"

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-Nelson Henderson

"the great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it ....what have you done that will outlast eternity ..."

'Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.....Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. ....This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines.....To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up."Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. '
Swami Vivekanada

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?[...]"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela

Ideas

"imagination is more important than knowledge" -Albert Einstein

"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it"Albert Einstein

"Nothing else in the world ... not all the armies ... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come" Victor Hugo

Some men see things as they are and say "WHY"?. I dream things that never were and say "WHY NOT?"

What was your the best idea during last 90 days” - Jack Welch

Leadership

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you"

"A true leader is not that who has the most followers; But, that which creates the most Leaders!" Sun Tzo, Art of War

"If you focus on Results you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."
Jack Dixon

“Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.” -Ancient Samurai saying

I asked "Why doesn't somebody do something?". Then I realized I was somebody.
"Leaders do not do different things - they do things differentely"

" Be the change you like to see in the world" - Mahathma Gandhi

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Leadership is action, not position

"We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!"- Richard Bach

"One day your whole life will flash before your eyes. Make it worth watching."

"Everything's okay in the end. If it's not okay--it's not the end."

"You never know how far you can fly till you spread your wings."

"Everything that is worth knowing, can be known from within"

"Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men's blood". - Machievelli

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success" - Henry Ford

"It is an uneasy lot at best to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy. To be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self- never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our conciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.-George Elliot, Middlemarch

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