Just for fun; Quotes you use for encourgement

tine14 · May 5, 2011

Two of my favs...

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

--E.B. White

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. --Chinese Proverb

CareGiving · May 5, 2011

This is a great thread! How fun to read everybody's inspirational thoughts! I just finished my first year of nursing school (yesterday!!). I guess the quote that has run through my mind a lot is, "This too shall pass," in the sense that nursing school is just a chapter of my life. If all goes well, it's a chapter that will unfold with time into a great story about how I become a great nurse. I realize that I will not necessarily be a great nurse just because I graduate... that honor comes with experience. So I just aim to finish this chapter. I can say for sure that the first year flew by-- as tough as it was, it went by fast!! I will be finished one year from now, and then the REAL learning can begin! :-)

cbreuklander · May 5, 2011

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Staragate, ADN, ASN, RN · May 5, 2011

"Think Less, Play More" -great stress reliever, make work fun.

"You are a firework. Let your colors burst" - Katie Perry

"Fake it until you make it."

havehope · May 5, 2011

ALL Of these are great quotes, I can deff. use them :).

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday!" ~ Unknown

Sings&shoots: I LOVE that quote!!

nhosch · May 5, 2011

When I was in nursing school an instructor told me once to "fake it till you make it"...I have lived by that as a nurse!

Nicole

purplesteth · May 5, 2011

"The person who says it can't be done shouldn't get in the way of the person doing it."

RHIA, RN · May 5, 2011

"Do or do not. There is no try." ~Yoda

I was going to say this one too!

I also like "Acta non Verba" which means Action not words. (USS Mason)

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · May 5, 2011

There is always an end to everything

Hold your horses

Whatever you do as an employee, always do your very best. It will pay off in the end.

Honesty is the best policy

I love people

Hang in there and hang on tight

classicdame, MSN, EdD · May 5, 2011

If you don't step forward you will always be in the same place - Nora Roberts, author

If nothing every changed, there would be no butterflies - anon

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Deming

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln

KareBear0609 · May 6, 2011

My all time FAVORITE quote:

"Accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them."

NurseJimAZ · May 6, 2011

I rotate these around my various work spaces.

'The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle' (US Navy Seals)

'You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it' -Rabbi Tarfon

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” - Friedrich Engels

"Never believe what a patient tells you his doctor said." - Sir William Jenner

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”- Albert Einstein

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” Xenocrates

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” Benjamin Franklin

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -Robert Heinlein

'The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.' -Herbert Spencer