Quotes of Life

"I  believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are those who really listen to the truth of their hearts. "

             _SYLVESTER STALLIONE

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”

             _MARY ANNE RADMACHER

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.” 

             _CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence;but by the distance they have travelled from the point where they started."
             _HENRY WARD BEECHER

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
             _ MARIE CURIE

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
               _MAYA ANGELOU

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony."
               _MAHATMA GANDHI

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not  go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." 
              _BRUCE LEE

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
            _JOHN C. MAXWELL

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
           _RICHARD M. NIXON

" If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit , never quit, never quit."
          _WILLIAM J. CLINTON

" If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
         _FREDERICK DOUGLASS

" Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."
        _ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO

" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
        _HENRY FORD

" Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step towards achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." 
       _BRIAN TRACY

" As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
       _HENRY DAVID THOREAU

" I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
       _MICHAEL JORDAN

" Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
       _CONFUCIUS

" Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
       _MAHATMA GANDHI

" Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

       _LAO TZU

" Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
        _MAHATMA GANDHI

" By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
       _CONFUCIUS

" Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
      _LAO TZU

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
      _CLINT EASTWOOD

" Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
        _LAO TZU

" People can cry much easier than they can change."
        _JAMES A.BALDWIN

" If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change."
       _JOYCE MEYER

" Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

       _WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

" Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
       _MELODY BEATTIE

" When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
       _GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
       _LYNDON B. JOHNSON

" If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
       _JOHN WOODEN

" We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
       _MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

" Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
       _CARL SANDBURG

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
      _DOUGLAS ADAMS

" Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
      _AYN RAND

" Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
       _HELEN HAYES

" Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
      _AYN RAND

" A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

       _MIGNON McLAUGHLIN

" The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
        _ARISTOTLE

" You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
      _RABINDRANATH TAGORE

" I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
       _MUHAMMAD ALI

" If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
      _JOSEPH ADDISON

" He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
      _MUHAMMAD ALI

" Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
       _WALTER ANDERSON

" Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
       _WASHINGTON IRVING

" Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."
       _MATTIE STEPANEK

" Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
      _HELEN KELLER

" You can never plan the future by the past."
      _EDMUND BURKE

" Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
      _Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
      _Bruce Lee

" Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
      _Desmond Tutu

" Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

        _Steve Jobs

" A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

      _John C. Maxwell

" Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

       _Peter Drucker

" A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

       _Brad Henry

 " Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

       _Confucius

" It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
        _ANDRE GIDE

" Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
       _DR. SEUSS

" You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
        _MAE WEST

" To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
       _OSCAR WILDE

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
       _ALLEN SAUNDERS

" Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
       _MARK TWAIN

" Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
       _DR SEUSS

" I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
     _WOODY ALLEN

" Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
     _MARKUS ZUSAK

" Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
     _ALBERT EINSTEIN

" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
    _GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

" Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
     _STEPHEN CHBOSKY

" I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
    _JIMI HENDRIX

" When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
    _JESS C.SCOTT

" But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
     _KHALED HOSSEINI

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
    _MARK TWAIN

" The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
    _CHUCK PALAHNIUK

" We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
    _KURT VONNEGUT

" If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there."
   _GEORGE HARRISON

" I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
   _ALBERT EINSTEIN

" All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
    _CHUCK PALAHNIUK

" Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
    _JOHN WAYNE

" Death ends a life, not a relationship."
    _MITCH ALBOM

" Where there is love there is life."
   _MAHATMA GANDHI

" You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
   _VIRGINIA WOOLF

" We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
   _MAY SARTON

" Get busy living or get busy dying."
   _STEPHEN KING

" Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
   _OSCAR WILDE

" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
   _ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

" Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." 
   _BIL KEANE

" It is never too late to be what you might have been."
   _GEORGE ELIOT

" When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
   _HELEN KELLER

" Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
   _WINSTON S.CHURCHILL

" And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." 
  _PAULO COELHO

" You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
   _NICHOLAS SPARK

" Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
    _ALBERT CAMUS

" There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
    _WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

" Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
    _PLATO

" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
    _BERTRAND RUSSELL

" The past has no power over the present moment."
    _ECKHART TOLLE

" Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
    _LAO TZU

" If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain."
   _ADOLF HITLER

" We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking."
    _SANTOSH KALWAR

"The past is over and done. We cannot change that now. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish for us to PUNISH OURSELVES in the present moment because someone hurt us in the long ago past."
    _Louise Hay

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” 
    _BIL KEANE

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” 
    _PAULO COELHO

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
    _LANGSTON HUGHES

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” 
    _TOM BODETT

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” 
  _Margaret Mitchell 

“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.” 
  _J.R.R. Tolkien

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” 
  _Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” 
  _David Nicholls

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” 
   _Pittacus Lore

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” 
   _Mark Twain

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” 
   _George Carlin

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” 
     _Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” 
     _Mark Twain

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” 
     _Socrates

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” 
     _Stephen Richards

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” 
       _Max Lucado

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” 
― W.P. Kinsella

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” 
― Truman Capote

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” 
― Winston S. Churchill

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” 
― Coco Chanel

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” 
― Confucius

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” 
― Steve Maraboli

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” 
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” 
― Bob Dylan

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.” 
― Orson Scott Card

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” 
― Steve Maraboli

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” 
― Vince Lombardi

"A moment of ANGER can DESTROY a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of LOVE can BREAK BARRIERS that took A LIFETIME TO BUILD."

     _Leon Brown

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”       _ Nicholas Sparks

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” 
     _Chuck Palahniuk

“We love the things we love for what they are.” 
     _Robert Frost

“Where there is love there is life.” 
   _Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.” 
      _C. JoyBell C.

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” 
    _Garrison Keillor

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” 
     _Albert Einstein

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.” 
      _George Carlin

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” 
      _Frank Zappa

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself” 
        _José Martí

Take it easy, but take it.” 
        _Woody Guthrie

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” 
         _Alan W. Watts