Quotes to Live By

 
Nelson Mandela, showcasing his iconic smile and inspiring presence. This image can represent resilience, leadership, and the impact of positive role models, relevant to discussions in mental health therapy about overcoming adversity.
 
β€œMy your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
— Nelson Mandela
β€œOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Jefferson
β€œWe rise by lifting others.”
— Robert Ingersoll; 1800’s American writer
β€œYou can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis
β€œYou don’t need inspiration, you need a plan.”
— Andy J Pizza; illustrator of children books
β€œIf you want a friend, be a friend”
— Unknown
β€œIt doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.”
— The trainer at my gym
β€œIf you don’t want to slip, don’t go where it’s slippery.”
— Alcoholics Anonymous
β€œMost people think they want happiness. But what they really want is peace.”
— Unknown
β€œAll our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
β€œThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis
β€œThe arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
β€œDon’t let what you can’t do prevent you from what you can do.”
— -John Wooden; UCLA Men’s basketball coach who won a record 10 NCAA titles
β€œThe difference between a catastrophe and an adventure is attitude.”
— Unknown
β€œTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
β€œThe problem with taking what life gives you is that life doesn’t want to give you shit.”
— Unknown
β€œIt’s easy to be miserable. It’s easy to stay the same.”
— Unknown
β€œWork hard in silence, let your success make the noise.”
— Frank Ocean; 2x Grammy award winning musicianrce
β€œComparison is the thief of joy.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
β€œGood gracious, ass is bodacious.”
— Nelly
β€œWhen you fail to plan- you plan to fail.”
— Winston Churchill
β€œWhen you give someone the benefit of the doubt, it doesn’t benefit them. It benefits you. ”
— Unknown
β€œTomorrow isn’t guaranteed.”
— Multiple sources
β€œI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”
— Mark Twain
β€œTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest achievement.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
β€œYou can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.”
— Michael McMillian, American actor
β€œThere is no one to impress. Live well for you. Improve for you. Most don’t get it.”
— Unknown
β€œDo not complain about what you didn’t get from the work you didn’t put in.”
— Jamal Murray, NBA Champion
β€œBelieve you can and you’re halfway there. ”
— Theodore Roosevelt
β€œThe best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker, Austrian-American Educator
β€œThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emmerson
β€œInaction is an action.”
— Unknown

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It’s hard to reach out, I get it… But you know what is even harder than reaching out? Staying the same.

So take a chance and schedule an appointment- let’s work together to make your goals a reality.

Tom McCready

Tom is a licensed mental health therapist who specializes in working with men. He believes that regardless of where you are in life, things can get better.

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