Quotes
A collection of my favorite quotes, these are very powerful, and i’ve been compiling them for a long, long time.
Thanks for looking, let me know if any of these helped any of you, in any way. Thank You.
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot Kill Time, without Injuring Eternity…” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”
~John Henry Cardinal Newman
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” ~Hazel Lee
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
- Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958)
“If everything is under control, you are going too slow.”
- Mario Andretti
“Destiny is not a matter of change, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
“Creative imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. Imagination sets the goal picture that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
-Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics
“Success is the continuous journey towards the achieve-
ment of predetermined worthwhile goals.”
- Tom Hopkins
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos
” I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who cherises a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become.”
- James Allen
“Together, let’s see how many people we can impact, empower, uplift and encourage to reach their fullest potentials.”
-Anthony Robbins
“Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“What stirs the mind or touches the heart, will undoubtedly move the feet.” Donald Murphy
“There is no way it is, there is only the way you say it is. The universe hasn’t made up its mind about you. It only knows what you show it today. You are the Inventor; your life is the invention. You get to make it up, so make it up good.”
-Gail Blanke, Between Trapezes
“Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt that you don’t even know if you owe.”
-Mark Twain
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life.
All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
- Albert Einstein
“Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on.”
- Amar Dave
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S Eliot
“Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
“The only way out is through.” -Robert Frost
“Anything the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, either way, you’re right” -Henry Ford
“What you resist, persists. What you fight, you get more of.” -Carl Jung
“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.” -Mark Twain
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, be that kind of a friend for your friends.” -Mark Twain
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Faith is the pillar of strength that allows man to achieve the impossible, reach the unattainable and solve the unfathomable.”
“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
- J. Krishnamurti
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.”
- Maxwell Maltz
“Our talents are our gifts from God… but what we do with them are our gifts TO God.”
“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than try doing something ordinary and succeed.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
~Arnold H. Glasow
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
-Einstein
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more
than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.
-Andrew Carnegie
Take the first step in faith you don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr
Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.
-John Demartini
Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his
life.
-James Allen
This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
-Max Planck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T. S. Eliot
Always do what you are afraid to do.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-William B. Sprague
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
-Benjamin Franklin
You must look into other people as well as at them.
-Lord Chesterfield
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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
