If you don't try to do something that is scary then you probably aren't
getting out of life what you want and need. We often hear people say
things like "Live every day like it's your last," "Live life to the
fullest," and so on. But that's a bunch of hogwash. You can't and
shouldn't expect every day to be amazing or full of great things. If
you do, you are setting yourself up for a fall.
Life is full of the mundane, the boring, the not so great, for
if it were always exciting and full of opportunity and wonder, like
some make it out to be, then the great wealth of knowledge or
understanding the downside of life provides would barely exist. For it
is in the juxtapositioning of bad with good, sickness with health,
boring with exciting, that makes us not only appreciate the good but by
brushing up against these opposites or challenges we learn very
important life lessons, like patience, compassion, and understanding.
At the same time, it is important to push ourselves, for it is only in
the overcoming of ourselves, our weaknesses, that we grow into the
person we hope to become. It is imperative that we push, that we take
on the unwanted, for these things are waiting for us to come and learn.
We don't learn by staying safe and silent. And even though the Nike
statement "Just Do It" is rather simplistic and unrealistic, the point
is well taken. As has been said before, it is often important in
obtaining our goals to shoot first and then aim. Not that we shouldn't
prepare but that we shouldn't over prepare and convince ourselves that
"Well, we just need to know a little more," to the point where we are
putting off the inevitable scare of having to take on the unknown.
Just Do It Quotes:
"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."--
Unknown
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."--
Henry Ford
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."--
Wayne Gretzky
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity."--
Omar Idn Al-Halif
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."--
Abraham Lincoln
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."--
Laurence J. Peter
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."--
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."--
Mason Cooley
"How you spend your time defines who you are."--
Oprah Winfrey
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--
Francis Bacon
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that
we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of
every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are
only so many tomorrows."--
Michael Landon
"Don't stand around and wait for something to happen. Don't be afraid
to take chances. Gamble. Be reckless. Make things happen!"--
Joe Paterno
"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."--
Napoleon Hill
"The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest."--
Albert Einstein
"I don't' think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention, in
my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness.
To save oneself trouble."--
Agatha Christie
"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."--
John W. Foster
"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."--
Michael Jordan
"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most
people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."--
Ayn Rand
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."--
Will Rogers
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."--
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right
thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you
can do is nothing."--
Theodore Roosevelt
"There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far
less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."--
John F. Kennedy
"To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been."--
Ben Franklin
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'"--
Lao Tzu
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem
improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become
inevitable."--
Christopher Reeve
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that's the stuff life is made of."--
Benjamin Franklin
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number
of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein."--
H. Jackson Brown
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."--
Jim Rohn
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is
production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be
forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as
well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."--
Thomas Edison
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard
them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will
become the brightest gems in a useful life."--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying
there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."--
Dale Carnegie
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."--
Henry Van Dyke
"The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about."--
Wess Roberts
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing
you think you cannot do."--
Eleanor Roosevelt
