25 Quotes That Can Change Your Life

17 Jan, 2011 by John Hawkins

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If you can’t afford it, you don’t deserve it. — Anonymous

At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all. — Anonymous

The secret to happiness at work is to find a job you love so much you’d do it as a hobby and make it into a career. — Anonymous.

It’s likely that whatever challenges you have faced in your life currently could have been avoided but some better decisions upstream. — Anonymous

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. — Buddha

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. — Edmund Burke

People like people who help them like themselves. — Dale Carnegie

What looks like a person problem is often a situation problem. — Chip & Dan Heath

We are likely to have a regard for the opinion of others only when there is a chance that the opinion might be now and then in our favor. — Eric Hoffer

We ought to beware of people who do not think it necessary to pretend that they are good and decent. Lack of hypocrisy in such things hints at a capacity for a most depraved ruthlessness. — Eric Hoffer

Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. — Eric Hoffer

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son; that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. — John 3:16

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy. — Martin Luther King

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. — George S. Patton

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. — George S. Patton

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley

If you question anything enough, you’ll begin to doubt it. — Tony Robbins

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time. — Tony Robbins

In life, never spend more than 10% of your time on the problem and spend at least 90% of your time on the solution. — Tony Robbins

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you. — Tony Robbins

The sad truth is that as long as you say, ‘It’s my mother’s fault, my husband’s fault, the government’s fault, my sixth-grade piano teacher’s fault…’ you won’t be happy. — Marcy Shimoff

There are no solutions…there are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell

A succinct summary of the tragic vision was given by historians Will and Ariel Durant: Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. — Thomas Sowell

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken. — Margaret Thatcher

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau

Actually, the life you’re living right now is the result of the choices you’ve made. — Dexter Yeager