I love to find inspiring quotations. And today you get a professional
psychologist top 10 inspirational quotes.
I almost take to put these in any kind
of an order because they're all awesome. Let's start with number 10 today. Maya
Angelou who has a lot of really inspiring quotations. This one caught my
attention. Listen to this: Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you
know better, do better." Don't you love that? That gives me a lot of hope because
I'm still learning. Coming in at number 9 today, this is a quote that hung on our
wall right above the desk for years. It's from Carolyn Meyers. Here's the
quotation: "Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." Again,
there's a lot of hope in that because sometimes it doesn't feel like things
are okay. Hang on. It's not the end. Number 8 comes from a prominent spiritual leader
named Gordon B Hinckley who's had a profound influence in my life. And one of
the things he said was "In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be
enjoyed, not just endured." You know what? I really believe that the purpose of our
life here is to experience joy. And if we're not having fun, we're doing
something wrong. Joy is more than fun. It's a richness that comes when you
really embrace principle. I love that quotation. Another very inspiring
woman --Rosa Parks had a lot of reasons to be afraid but she said, "Knowing what must
be done does away with fear." I can just picture her on that bus as she took a
stand doing what she knew needed to be done
to purchase freedom. Freedom is not free. And it's people like Rosa Parks who have
created more freedom for you and me. That's so inspiring. Number 6 on
today's countdown comes from Dan Zadra. Dan said this about our imagination:
"Worry is the misuse of imagination." Such a simple quote that is so profound.
And I have done a lot of psychological research on this to determine that
anxiety is created by our imagining of something worse than what we already
have. That's how its formed. And Dan nailed it with that quote. Worry is the
misuse of imagination. Number 5 on our list comes from an ancient philosopher
named Epictetus. And I'm going to read this to make sure that I get it right.
Because they talked funny back then. "He is a wise man who does not grieve for
the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has." Do you love that
change of focus? Let me read that once more. "He is a wise man who does not
grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."
Gratitude has been shown in the psychological research to be a profound
way to change your mood and the direction of your life. And apparently
they knew that in ancient times. Coming in at number four today is another
mother of freedom, Harriet Tubman who said this: "Every great dream begins with
a dreamer." There's got to be somebody that envisions what's possible. And the
dreams that come are because of the dreamers who dream them. You have your
dreams for a reason. Harriet Tubman had hers and brought freedom to so many
people through her dreams. What are your dreams going to create? And who can you
liberate because of them? At my office, I have a picture on the
wall about attitude and how important that is. There's a quotation on this
poster from Louise Ellman who said this: "What happens to a man is less
significant than what happens within a man."
It's our thinking that makes a bigger difference. I've been doing podcasting
now since 2007. That's before podcasting was even a thing. And I have found that
every inspiring story has a hard part right in the middle. Something that was
challenging or difficult or painful that someone went through and then rose from
that occasion into greatness. Heroism. These heroic people that I have
interviewed have proven this to me. What happens to you what happens around you,
that's simply the weather report. That creates the context. What happens inside
of you, that's what's really important. George
Bernard Shaw picked up the number 2 spot on today's countdown with this
quotation: "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are
doing it." I saw that as a footer on an email once. And it just caught my
attention. Get out of the way. Either you're in or you're in the way. And don't
interrupt the people who are innovating. I look at people like Elon Musk for
example. I don't know him personally but I am so much in awe of what he is doing
that people would have said could never be done. Get out of the way. Either you're
in or you're in the way. The quotation again people who say it cannot be done
should not interrupt those who are doing it. And that brings us to number one. And
who better for this then the dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who inspired millions to
see a different kind of a world that we can all live in together. And one of the
things that Dr. King said was this: "The time
is always right to do the right thing." We can't solve a problem with the same kind
of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Dr. King knew this. And
he called for people to do the right thing even in the face of oppression and
discrimination. The time is always right to do the right thing.
I probably could have done a top 20 list here. There are so many inspiring
quotations from great leaders like the ones I've referred to here today. If
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