Gary’s Quotes of the Month – Inspirational Gems for August
We love quotes.
We use them to express our feelings in greeting cards, to impress our friends with how smart we are and to hang in the air to denote irony.

Image Memes – often containing misquotes – flow in our social streams like leaves on a brook.
Whether they’re inspirational quotes that nudge us back on track or quotes that break our days with a welcome laugh – wise or witty, they light our way.

 

Each first day of the month, Gary Blair, President of Image24, publishes a list of quotes to inspire us throughout the coming 30 or 31 days.
(February, with the least number of days, needs inspiration the most.)

 

Gary writes in his intro that August is the month when Christopher Columbus first set sail across the Atlantic ocean.
He apparently set in motion what would become the summer holiday activity of traveling to new and unfamiliar places!

(Thankfully, with less disastrous repercussions on native populations.)

 

Here are Gary’s quotes for August:

Democracy requires compromise even when you’re 100% right. - Barack Obama Click To Tweet

 

There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks when decades happen. Vladimir LeninClick To Tweet

 

 

Never believe that your best days are behind you. You may just need to reach farther ahead. Tay ZondayClick To Tweet

 

My grandmother taught me: Never cut what you can untie. Leave people better than you found them. And always try to exit better than you entered someone’s life. Sophie A. NelsonClick To Tweet

 

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal BorlandClick To Tweet

 

Fear is not a wall but an emotion. And like all emotions, it can be overcome. Gwen Goldsby GrantClick To Tweet

 

Life is problems. Living is solving problems. Raymond E. FeistClick To Tweet

 

 

Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin. K. KiserClick To Tweet

 

Think before you speak. Read before you think. - Fran LebowitzClick To Tweet

 

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success. Manuela George-IzunwaClick To Tweet

 

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. Robert BraultClick To Tweet

After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved. - ProverbClick To Tweet

 

There’s no such thing as ready; there’s only willing. Rachel Cohn Click To Tweet

 

People value people who value people. Tony CurlClick To Tweet

 

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott AdamsClick To Tweet

 

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. Orrin WoodwardClick To Tweet

 

No one knows less than the person who knows it all. Hugh GlosterClick To Tweet

 

And we leave you with this.

 

 

 

A “breakdown” is when you’ve exhausted every option and have no choice but to accept the fact that you are powerless to create the outcome you want.  A “breakthrough” has the same definition. – Paul Colaianni