Selected Quotes

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

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.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Change is inevitable.
Growth is optional.

 Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

Now I look beyond what I can’t do and focus on what I CAN. 

Breathe, Darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not a whole story.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

You know I think that when you explore the ordinary, sometimes, you may just discover the extraordinary.

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Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. 

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Money is the root of all evil.

Where there is love there is life.

Life has no limitations except ones you make.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

 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.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

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I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me

Success is a journey not a destination.

Never apologise for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.

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If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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I walk slowly but never backward.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts.

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

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.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

What happens next is up to you.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Fail fast. Fail often… The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That’s a good thing to learn.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. 

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

I’m still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

If not us, who? If not now, when? 

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. 

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don’t care what people think and just go for it. 

Use your fear… it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.

People think I’m an overnight success. No. It’s just that you all found me overnight.

We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power. 

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.

When God’s leading and directing, you don’t have to kick the doors open.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Well done is better than well said.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Actions speak louder than words.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.”

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

All good things must come to an end.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.