by John Hawkins | January 10, 2013 4:41 am
1) “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2) “Love is always creative, fear always destructive.” — Emmet Fox
3) “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
4) “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” — Bruce Lee
5) “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” — Brooke Foss Westcott
6) “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” –Jose Ortega y Gasset
7) “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther
8) “Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.” — Lou Holtz
9) “It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.” — Tacitus
10) “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius
11) “Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.” — William Hazlitt
12) “I don’t think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.” — Douglas Coupland
13) “It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14) “Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” — Honore de Balzac
15) “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” — Confucius
16) “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” — Benjamin Franklin
17) “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide
18) “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” — Anthony Robbins
19) “When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails.” — H. Jackson Brown
20) “An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” — Aldous Huxley
21) “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” — Socrates
22) “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” — Vince Lombardi
23) “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon
24) “An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.” — Red Auerbach
25) “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.” — Gabriel Heatter
26) “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” — Jim Rohn
27) “Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” — Teddy Roosevelt
28) “Not to feel one’s misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.” — Seneca
29) “Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.” — Publilius Syrus
30) “Arguing with a fool proves there are two.” — Doris M. Smith
31) “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” — Louis L’Amour
32) “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau
33) “‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.” — Plautus
34) “We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.” — Eric Hoffer
35) “Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Anais Nin
36) “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” — Dave Weinbaum
37) “Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.”– Sophocles
38) “There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.” — David Lloyd George
39) “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” — Pericles
40) “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow
41) “The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” — Voltaire
42) “Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.” — Julie Andrews
43) “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” — Paul Coffey
44) “Action expresses priorities.” — Mahatma Gandhi
45) “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” — William Shakespeare
46) “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” — Horace
47) “If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” — W. Somerset Maugham
48) “Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.” — Mike Norton
49) “There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees.” — Francis Beaumont
50) “Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.” — Benjamin Disraeli
51) “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” — Vernon Howard
52) “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” — Chuck Palahniuk
53) “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan
54) “The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.” — Thomas Edison
55) “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.’ — 1 Peter 5:8
56) “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts
57) “There is more to life than watching other people live it.” — Hitch
58) “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — John Locke
59) “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” — Socrates
60) “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.” — George Bernard Shaw
61) “Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.” — Leonardo da Vinci
62) “The wise learn many things from their foes.” — Aristophanes
63) “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” — Luke 12:48
64) “Fortune and love favor the brave.” — Ovid
65) “But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” — Matthew 20: 26-28
66) “All happiness depends on courage and work.” — Honoré de Balzac
67) “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — William Faulkner
68) “Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
69) “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” — Leo Buscaglia
70) “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino
71) “The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
72) “A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it.” — George Martin
73) “Little by little one walks far.” – Peruvian Proverb
74) “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James
75) “All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.” — Reinhold Niebuhr
76) “The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.” — Michelangelo
77) “Look and you will find it – what is unsought will go undetected.” — Sophocles
78) “Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” — Nikki Giovanni
79) “The gods’ most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.” — Lois McMaster Bujold
80) “In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnaminity
In Peace: Good Will.” — Winston Churchill
81) “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” — Sir Francis Bacon
82) “He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.” — Proverbs 15:32
83) “Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.” — Frederick Bailes
84) “When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw
85) “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” — Oprah Winfrey
86) “Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.” — George Jackson
87) “Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.” — T.S. Eliot
88) “Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.” — Virginia Satir
89) “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — W. Edwards Deming
90) “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” — Vincent van Gogh
91) “We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” — Henry Ward Beecher
92) “I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.” — Hugh Mackay
93) “People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” — Eric Hoffer
94) “By your fruits shall ye know yourself.” — Dennis Deaton
95) “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
96) “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” — Lao Tzu
97) “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein
98) “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter F. Drucker
99) “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” — Seneca
100) “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” — Carl Gustav Jung
Also see,
100 Great Quotes About Life And Living[1]
100 Great Quotes About Life And Living (2nd Edition)[2]
100 Great Quotes About Life And Living (3rd Edition)[3]
100 Great Quotes About Life And Living (4th Edition)[4]
100 Great Quotes About Life And Living (5th Edition)[5]
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