Optional Quotes

• To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Suffering, Achieve

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 08, 2013

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

  Roger Crawford

  Success, Challenges, Defeat

  Roger Crawford (1999). “How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks”, Bantam

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  52 Copy quote

• Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 31, 2016

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Failiure is not an option.

  Gene Kranz

  Motivational, Success, Failure

  66 Copy quote

• Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.

  Joe Maddon

  Practice, Different, Want

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, House, Today

  17 Copy quote

• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Medicine, House

  15 Copy quote

• Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

  Sean Stephenson

  Pain, Stay Positive, Suffering

  Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.19, John Wiley and Sons

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

  Isaac Marion

  Air, Breathing, Needs

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

  Roger Crawford

  Encouraging, Optimistic, Adversity

  73 Copy quote

• Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

  Jeff Bezos

  Invention, Parcel

  "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Government, Soldier

  7 Copy quote

• Optional is latin for 'Be There'.

  Darryl Sutter

  Latin

  6 Copy quote

• Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christianity, Christ, Obedience

  4 Copy quote

• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Gold, Hoarding

  19 Copy quote

• Life is painful, suffering is optional.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Suffering, Life Is, Painful

  19 Copy quote

• Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

  Barbara Johnson

  Pain, Misery, Inevitable

  Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

  Jhene Aiko

  Pain, Suffering

  167 Copy quote

• All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

  T.I.

  Winning, Insanity, Use

  106 Copy quote

• Survival is optional.  No one has to change.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Survival, Improvement

  5 Copy quote

• Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

  Robyn Carr

  Struggle, Suffering

  Robyn Carr (2014). “Forbidden Falls”, p.261, Harlequin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

  Clay Shirky

  Middle, Minors

  16 Copy quote

• If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.

  Mark Dever

  Jobs, Prayer, Thinking

  12 Copy quote