I start in the name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Kind.
These words have been stuck on my walls since the start of University. I copied them out years ago and the colour and writing on the pieces of paper have slowly faded with the passing of time.
Time flies, as they say.
Time also fades things away.
I called it a wonder wall because words make me wander and wonder...
These are by far my favorite words :
...and if you share with your heart, yeah you give, with your heart,
what you share with the world is what it keeps of you...
If you want to build a ship, don't herd 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.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
There is only one you...Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
The resolve is not to seem but to be the best.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
Success is a lousy teacher it makes smart people think they can't lose.
Great thing are done by a series of small things brought together.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
They key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great one make you feel that you too, can become great.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
Do not wait the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
With humility comes wisdom.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as they are or as others do them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God...Never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And that man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realising that life is made up of little things.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them...and they achieve it, They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves tenacity of purpose and discipline.
Humility precedes honour.
If you want to be successful, it's just simple: know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
There is only one you...Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
The resolve is not to seem but to be the best.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
Success is a lousy teacher it makes smart people think they can't lose.
Great thing are done by a series of small things brought together.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
They key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great one make you feel that you too, can become great.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
Do not wait the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
With humility comes wisdom.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as they are or as others do them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God...Never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And that man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realising that life is made up of little things.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them...and they achieve it, They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves tenacity of purpose and discipline.
Humility precedes honour.
If you want to be successful, it's just simple: know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Einstein:
"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience."
"Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value."
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
"Never think of the future it comes soon enough."
"Insanity; doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
A winner is someone who recognises his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Well if you are, what you love and you do, what you love,
I will always be the sun and moon to you
and if you share, with your heart
yeah you give, with your heart
what you share with the world is what it keeps of you...
Note: none of these quotes are my words.
They are merely quotes I wrote down to remember, motivate and inspire myself all those years ago...And they are still on my wall but as time flies and things fade I thought I would share a part of what shaped me.
May God bless all the people who said these words, shared these words and the root of inspiration of these words. May all that we speak be good words, amin.
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