Jenny Downham Quotes

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

My tattoos say "Stay strong." "Stay" on one wrist and "strong" on the other. I'm able to look at them and be thankful for being alive.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Where there is hope...there is life

Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead

This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can." It is a choice that will either make or break you for life.

We do choose how we shall live