Ambition
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
-Bryant H. McGill
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
-Mark Twain
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Les Brown
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Beauty
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
-Johann von Goethe
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.
-Tolstoy
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Kahlil Gibran
Change
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Gandhi
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
-Basho
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
– Maya Angelou
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
Children
Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-Charles R. Swindoll
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
-Abigail Van Buren
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-Abraham Lincoln
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
-Mark Twain
Courage is a kind of salvation.
-Plato
Family
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. -T.S. EliotThe family is one of nature’s masterpieces.-George Santayana |
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
-John Wilmot
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-George Burns
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-John Bowring
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley
Fear
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
-Virgil Garnett Thomson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.”
-Mark Twain
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
-Bill Cosby
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
-W. Clement Stone
Friendship
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all–friends?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
-Francis Bacon
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
-George Eliot
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
Happiness
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
– E E. Cummings
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
– James Barrie
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but they seize us.
– Ashley Montagu
Enjoy your life without comparing it to others.
– Condobcet
Home
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
-Maya Angelou
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
-Benjamin Franklin
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
-Chinese Proverb
Humor
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
-Oscar Levant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
-Norm Crosby
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
-Kurt Vonnegut
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
-Cyril Connolly
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
-Edith Sitwell
Life
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Lao-Tze
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
-John Ruskin
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
-Voltaire
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Harold Whitman
Love
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
– Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. ~
-Kahlil Gibran
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
-Helen Keller
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
-Ivan Panin
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
-Mirabeau
Peace
A smile is the beginning of peace.
– Mother Teresa
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
–Moshe Dayan
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
– Mohandas Gandhi
Success
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
-Peter Marshall
The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-Oscar Wilde
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
– Adlai Stevenson
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
-Edgar J. Mohn
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
-Emily Dickinson
The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Wisdom
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.”
-Mark Twain
Other
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Thanx for sharing collection of quotes about life………
beauty is in the eye of the beholder, faith in the soul of the believer, hatred in the minds of the weak and love in the hearts of those willing to fight for it.
The world is like a giant play directed by god, everyone has a part to play. Even you!
There are many Hell’s to pass on your way to Heaven, here’s just hoping you can recognize which is which.
As I quote the Hon. Robert Nestor Marley: Think you’re in Heaven but you are living in Hell!
“Courage is not the absents of fear, but rather the presents of fear and the will to continue onward.”
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
-Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride.
Best quote ever.
I second that!
tommy and mariam should get married
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thats sh*t
I live by the motto, “If I am skating on thin ice, I may as well tap dance”
My friend told me to put this online “while I’ve never experienced cannabis I do know that It increases your thinking capacity somehow, allowing complex things to become more clear and yet simple things become complex. while having that on your mind think about this, why is alcohol and smoking more accepted than weed. What harm does it bring? Do people die from it…often, No. (people die in many weird ways unless its a large amount it doesnt count.) But smoking kills even affects other people even ones yet to come into the world. alcohol in large consumption can deplete the mind. see a pattern here? Weed increases while the other rids. one is legal the other isnt. keep the population stupid and things are easy to control without being questioned. And its not just this it is in all things. Media, Religion, Traditions, Culture, Society as a whole is an illusion. The world is no more different than it was back then. Tribes, kings, queens, so called “Holy” wars, barbaric behavior. propaganda. Nothing has changed. only the technology. We hide our behind our flags thinking we are better simply because a flag and an imaginary border. We are all human we are all the same. We came from nonliving material of the world, and so we shall return to it. In my mind we never die actually, we once again become part of the world. and that is another problem. We see ourselves apart from the world.”-Jarrad Glynn Kirk
very perceptive, but to think that there was never an ‘ism’ because of mans need to ideologically possess a label, whatever it is; christian, moslem, democratic, social lib, all these wonderful terms only to box label us into a some mould of sorts. Diversity and the crossing of ideas is all up to individuals and hence individualism, another ‘ism’. So you just can’t win…..with powermongers, wealthy sycophants and us folk in the middle who have to listen to propoganda from all these other ‘isms’, makes one want to just be free regardless of all the boxed up holier/better politicians and religionists. So long as we keeping seeing life in a judgmental and self-righteous manner, then we deserve the unnecessary, uncompromising needs of the powers that be, and there is no end of our suffering or doubt. If we just become more conscious, then weed or constructive analysis of a situation can be taken more seriously and not guarded jealously ‘cos of power and money mongering(charity, starts at home). Also I’m noticing a more mature outlook to the weed/hemp and hence hopefully it will be decriminalized, ‘cos the government and specially health services could help with health costs and probably makes billions out of it, but money is only useful when you can make money and more money and that’s a decision which no-one takes cos it is decision-based, and we all know that the west likes to think of ganja users as fiends/devils, so I don’t know it is all organized and controlled by decision-makers who have based their prejudice over hemp in favour of other fibres, products, etc…..
Sit still and LISTEN to God.
The best sermon is lived, not preached.
“People need to let go of the illusion of control for if we do, there will be less fear and less pain. Fear is our way of controlling our situations and pain usually results from the attempt.
Unfortunately my dear, you cannot sleep with a whole audience without being accused of immorality on rather a grand scale.
Daniel Massey as Noel Coward, ‘Star!’
your the master of your words…until they leave your mouth ….
‘you want to follow your dreams don’t you? but you won’t… so stop looking for inspirational quotes.’ — bertrand russell
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“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
— Gerry Spence
Give as much as you think you can give, and then, give a little more.
Every one of these is great! Best quote page that I have found!
life is what happens while your making plans- John Lennon
The most disabling birth injury is to be born unwanted.