Famous Quotes

• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky

• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie

• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt

• The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. Oprah Winfrey

• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau

• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Khalil Gibran

• I wake up by saying good morning with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller

• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie

• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid. John Wayne

• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer

• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses

• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare

• Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. William Faulkner

• In life you need either inspiration or desperation. Tony Robbins

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein

• The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus

• Every day women and men become legends Glory, John Legend and Common

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. W. C. Fields

• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. Oprah Winfrey

• I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates

• While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey

• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

• It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. Cesar Chavez

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer

• Women must learn to play the game as men do. Eleanor Roosevelt

• The key to success is to start before you are ready. Marie Forleo

• I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. Erma Bombeck

• I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’ Leah Busque

• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. Plato

• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith

• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier

• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. Jack Nicholson

• Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

• I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

• Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is. Anne Frank

• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. Caleb Carr

• Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. Anne Hathaway

• It’s okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine. Jadah Sellner

• Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. Marilyn Monroe

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

• Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. Eileen Caddy

• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton

• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein

• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. Eileen Caddy

• A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. John F. Kennedy

• If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. Angelina Jolie

• It’s okay to outgrow people who don’t grow. Grow tall anyways.

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison

• Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert Hubbard

• The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel

• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. George Bernard Shaw

• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

• My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi

• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? Bill Gates

• The best way to predict your future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln