Marginalia from 2021

Some quotes I came across and jotted down throughout 2021 in the margins of my day planner . . .

January 2021

"Do the best you know how to do, so you can know better. Once you know better, you can do better." Eric Perkins, Perkins Bros. Const.

"What calls you to be your best is the thing that is pushing you forward to manifest yourself in the world most fully. It is what you need." Dr. Jordan Peterson

March 2021

"Let everything happen to you,

Beauty and terror,

Just keep going,

No feeling is final."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less." C.S. Lewis

June 2021

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are." Soren Kierkegaard

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare

"The best way out,

is always through."

Robert Frost

September 2021

"The more you reason, the less you create." Raymond Chandler

"You can't know too much, but you can say too much." Calvin Coolidge

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage." Dale Carnegie

October 2021

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Old certainties and values have been replaced by cynicism and ideology." Anon

November 2021

"A professional is someone who can keep working at a high level of effort and ethics, no matter what is going—for good or ill—around him or inside him." Steven Pressfield

"Profession: a self-governed and self-guided institution whose defining measure was in achieving excellence by continuous practice, critical self-evaluation, and perpetually, relentlessly seeking improvements." Col. Charles S. Oliviero

"Gather wisdom as data, to preserve and remember, organized philosophically." Peter Kreeft

"When you have something to say, silence is a lie. If you cannot talk, you cannot think." Dr. Jordan Peterson

"If you speak your truth powerfully, honestly, and clearly, someone will hear you, even if you do not know at the time who they are." Carmen Medina

"Live life with confidence, knowing every step you take gets you closer to understanding the purpose of your life." Carmen Medina

December 2021

"Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development because success is something you attract by the person you become." Jim Rohn

I hope you have enjoyed some of these quotes. Happy New Year to all! ■