Life Quotes and Sayings
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
-Corita Kent
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
-Epictetus
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
-Jim Rohn
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Buddha
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
-Marie Curie
Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
-Margaret Sangster
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
-Barack Obama
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
-Chinese Proverb
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
-William Shakespeare
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
-Bruce Lee
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
A jug fills drop by drop.
-Buddha
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-Epictetus
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-Ralph Emerson
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
-John Astin
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
-Anthony D'Angelo
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
-Richard Evans
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
-Voltaire
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-Jim Beggs
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
-William Shakespeare
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
-Marian Edelman
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
-Margaret Laurence
You can't create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings.
-Byron Pulsifer
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
-Wayne Dyer
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
-Lucille Ball
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
-Margaret Wheatley
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
-Sai Baba
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves, there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
-Joan Didion
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-Denis Waitley
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
-Buddha
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
-Goethe
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
-Leo F. Buscaglia
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
-Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-Frances de Sales
Joy is the best makeup.
-Anne Lamott
Don't think of it as a failure. Think of it as time-released success.
-Robert Orben
Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are.
-Forrest Church
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
-W. Clement Stone
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.
-John Dewey
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
-Publilius Syrus
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
-Elizabeth Browning
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
He who angers you conquers you.
-Elizabeth Kenny
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
-William Sloane Coffin
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison
It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others.
-Dalai Lama
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
-Booker Washington
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
-John Holmes
It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill, a sweet instruction flows.
-Edward Young
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
-Buddha
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
-Joe Paterno
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.
-Richard Garriott
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
-Mother Teresa
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
-Ella Wilcox
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
-Buddha
Our distrust is very expensive.
-Ralph Emerson
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
-Carl Jung
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
-Chinese proverb
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
-Carlos Castaneda
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
-Thomas Carlyle
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-Alfred Painter
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.
-Eckhart Tolle
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
-Dhammapada
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
-Harold Nicolson
No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.
-Jason Fried
You give before you get.
-Napoleon Hill
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
-Denis Waitley
No man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
-Lao Tzu
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
-Confucius
Learning is finding out what you already know.
-Richard Bach
Stay strong. Make them wonder how you're still fighting.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
Love is caring for each other even when you are angry.
Look in the mirror. That's your competition.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.
99% of the battle is getting yourself in the right state of mind.
Beware, because the wolf on the top of the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.