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What am I doing here?
Anyone who has dared to start a side hustle is familiar with the feeling of self doubt. You think you’re doing the right things, working hard but things just aren’t going the way you want. Sometimes you need someone to help you see the light, other times you need a good kick in the backside.
So I asked “What’s your favourite inspiring quote?” in one of my physician-only Facebook groups. Here’s the list of responses and a few more I’ve added.
Use them to pull you out of your next slump, or share one as an uplifting Instagram/ Facebook post.
Feel free to add your own favourite quote in the comments below. – Andrew
Doctor Favourites:
“Don’t measure yourself using someone else’s ruler.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A year from now you’ll be glad you started today.”
“Improvise, Adapt and Overcome”- US Marine Corp
“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Hope is not a strategy”- James Cameron
“Old ways won’t open new doors.”
“Good things come to those who… work their asses off and never give up.”
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – Jesus
“Be the change you wish to see in this world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I love you daddy” – my kids
“When the waves wash over me, I dive down to fish for pearls.” – Masha Kaleiko
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. “ – William Ernest Henley
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. “ – Rabindranath Tagore
“Trust, but verify” – Russian Proverb
“Fall 7 times, get up 8.”
“They thought they had buried you… but they didn’t know you were a seed.”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr
“Live as you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better!” – Jim Rohn
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Franklin Roosevelt
“I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.” – Jennie Finch
“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight.” Tisha Ro’s grandmother
“It doesn’t take sight to reach the top, it takes vision”.”
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” -Nelson Mandela
“Never give up!” – Winston Churchill
“Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant taste of death but once.” – Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
A Few More for Good Measure:
“The essential question is not ‘how busy are you?’ but “what are you busy at?'” – Oprah Winfrey
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne
“Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.” – Heidi Johnson
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
“To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.”
“Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” – Sarah Dessen
“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.” – Caroline Webb
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail
“Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
“Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
Got a quote to share? Post it in the comments below.
