46 Life Quotes

A Wise Man Chooses His Battles... A Fool's Battles Choose Him ~ Unknown

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves ~ Confucius

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime ~ Lao Tzu

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging ~ Will Rogers

Money is like water, try to grab it and it flows away, open your hands and it will move towards you ~ Buddhist Wisdom

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world ~ Aristotle

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on ~ Margaret Mead

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else ~ Lawrence J. Peter

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people ~ Thomas J. Stanley

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~ Albert Camus

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes ~ Andy Warhol

Our only security is our ability to change. ~ John Lilly

 

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time ~ Bertrand Russell

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~ Unknown

The only paradise is paradise lost. ~ Marcel Proust

Network, Network, Network! You've got something in common with everybody. ~ Jonathan M. Tisch

Can anyone remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

1870

There is little SUCCESS where there is little laughter ~ Andrew Carnegie

Attitude is EVERYTHING. Never put a period where God put a comma! ~ unknown

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all ~ Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries (2001)

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also 

undermine our health. ~ Dalai Lama

When you lose, don't lose the lesson ~ Dalai Lama

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top ~ Henry Ward Beecher

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters ~ Epictetus

One man's wilderness is another man's theme park ~ unknown

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Everyone should be respected, but no-one idolized ~ Albert Einstein

Nothing is worth more than this day ~ Johann von Goethe

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. ~ Ralph Charel

It's not what's under the [Christmas] tree that matters, it's who's around it. ~ unknown

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Mark Twain

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ Alexander Pope

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

You create your own sunshine! ~ unknown

You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. ~ Nietzsche

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is Not optional. ~ Desmond Tutu

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting. ~ Betty White

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Trees don't think about the height they want to become, they simply "reach for the sky" and grow. ~ unknown

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it. ~ Unknown

It's not what's under the [Christmas] tree that matters, it's who's around it. ~ unknown

Step with care and great tact. And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. ~ Dr. Seuss

My advice to the young people: Please don not be cynical. I hate cynicisms. For the record, it's my the least favorite quality; it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly they thought they are going to get, but if you work hard and if you are kind, amazing things will happen. ~ Conan O' Brian

The perfectionist sculptor

A gentleman once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.

Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?”

“No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.”

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked.

“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

“Where are you going to install the idol?”

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

“If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said,

“I know it and God knows it!”

Moral – The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excellence is a drive from inside, not outside. Excel at a task today – not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction.

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Love Quotes

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
“Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.”
“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.”
“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”

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Reason for Life

Quotes about not giving up

“A winner is someone who gets up one more time than he is knocked down.”
Author Unknown
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
Author Unknown
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
Winston Churchill
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
Author Unknown
“People will rate you, hate you, shake you, and break you… but how strong you stand is what makes you.”
Author Unknown
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.”
Thomas Edison
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius
“It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.”
Author Unknown
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Stowe
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
Jane Addams
“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby
“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
“It’s not just how hard you try, it’s how well you will succeed from trying hard.”
Miles Thompson
“The day you give up on your dreams is the day you give up on yourself.”
Author Unknown
“The harder you fall the higher you bounce.”
Author Unknown
“Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”
Satchel Paige
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up or sit down and grieve. Find another way.”
Author Unknown
“When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”
Babe Ruth
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
Author Unknown
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.”
Brian Tracy
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”
Author Unknown
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
Charlie Jones

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Before you start anything, learn ...... to finish Quote

One Step- Life Quote

Foolish people with all their other thoughts, have this one too: They are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Your success will start when you begin to pursue it. To reach your goal or to attain success, you don’t need to know all of the answers in advance. You just need to have a clear idea of what your goal is.

Don’t procrastinate when faced with difficult problems. Break your problems into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Develop tendencies toward taking action. You can make something happen right now. Divide your big plan into small steps and take that first step right away.

Everyone who ever got where they are had to begin where they were. Your big opportunity is where you are right now.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Take it.

Positive Quotes Collection

“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.”
T.S. Eliot

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
Swami Vivekananda

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”
Henry Ward Beecher

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

“Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.”

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
W. Clement Stone

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill

“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”
Ralph Marston

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
John Jakes

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus

“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”

“To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”
James Allen

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
William Allen White

“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”
George Foreman

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
Zig Ziglar

“It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.”
Rosemarie Rossetti

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
Malcolm X

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
Swedish Proverb

“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James

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Best Inspirational Quotes collections

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”

“Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.”

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.”

 

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What goes around comes around!

One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was those chills which only fear can put in you. He said, “I’m here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.”

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And think of me.”
He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn’t erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan.

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin.

There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote:

 “You don’t owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.”

Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard….

She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, “Everything’s going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.”

There is an old saying “What goes around comes around.”

Author: Unknown

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