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We must all suffer from one of two pains:
The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs TONS.
“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
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“If you think you, have it bad – someone has it worse. Lou Holtz ”
I was blessed to hear him say those words when I was a broker at Trammell Crow Company– it helps me very much when I think about what he said that day – Tobin Knight
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
What does the quote Most men lead lives of quiet desperation ” mean?
Henry David Thoreau famously stated in Walden that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” He thinks the misplaced value is the cause: We feel a void in our lives, and we attempt to fill it with things like money, possessions, and accolades. We think these things will make us happy.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan
“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —Erica Jong
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." —Edna Mode
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” –William Arthur Ward
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” –Adlai E. Stevenson II
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“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.” –Ronald Reagan
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“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men–the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx
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“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” –Tina Fey
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“Power isn’t control at all–power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.” –Beth Revis
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“Don’t tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” –George S. Patton Jr.
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“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.” –Lao Tzu
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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail
than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”― Robert H. Schuller
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George Dennehy
- “Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
- “Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
- “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
- “Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
- “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
- “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
- “Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”
- “Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
- “It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
- “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
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Tony Robbins
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
- “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
- “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
- “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
- “The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.”
- “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
- “If you don’t educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.”
- “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
- “It really understands how to use money, and not let money use you.”
- “I always believe leaders are readers, so you’ve got to read 30 minutes a day of something that’s going to inspire you.”
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John Dewey
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
- “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
- “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
- “A problem well put is half solved.”
- “We only think when confronted with a problem.”
- “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
- “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
- “Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
- “There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”
- “The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
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Brian Tracy
- “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
- “The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.”
- “All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
- “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
- “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
- “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
- “If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
- “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
- “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
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Brian Carter
- “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.”
- “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
- “Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
- “Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
- “And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.”
- “We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
- “He was there or was not there: not there if I didn’t see him.”
- “Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
- “She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
- “Ideas are, in truth, force.”
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Barbara Corcoran
- “Only those who risk going too far, can possible find out how far one can go.”
- “Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.”
- “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
- “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
- “At some point in life you have to face your fears.”
- “You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”
- “Success is not for the weak and uncommitted… Sometimes it’s gonna hurt!”
- “Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.”
- “I use pain to push me to greatness”
- “The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.”
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John Maxwell
- “If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.”
- “The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”
- “I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”
- “Every thought we think is creating our future.”
- “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
- “I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
- “You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.”
- “Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. It’s all temporary anyway. Next lifetime you will do it differently anyway, so why not do it differently right now?”
- “In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself
As the Universe sees me — perfect, whole, and complete.” - “Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.”
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Les Brown
- “If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.”
- “To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.”
- “It is important to surround yourself with people who lift you up, encourage you, share your vision, and inspire you.”
- “Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life.”
- “Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. Go for it.”
- “The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
- “I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period.”
- “If you have children who love and respect you, this too can be a sign of your success.”
- “I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.”
- “It’s not over until I win.”
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Arianna Huffington
- “When you are grateful – when you can see what you have – you unlock blessings to flow in your life.”
- “When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.”
- “A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
- “True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn’t give to herself as much as she gives of herself.”
- “The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.”
- “I’ve learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.”
- “In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.”
- “Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments – they may not be as high as you think.”
- “Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
- “It’s impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don’t know where you’re starting from.”
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Joe Simpson
- “People are hurting. People are suffering. But you cannot get everywhere.”
- “Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.”
- “Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you’re up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that’ll listen.”
- “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change”
- “Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don’t think – feel.”
- “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.”
- “You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”
- “Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, and delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.”
- “Anger simply means that your personal power – your personal space, your personal sense of being – has been violated”
- “The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.”
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Alison Fragale
- “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
- “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
- “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”
- “When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.”
- “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
- “One is very crazy when in love.”
- “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
- “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.”
- “Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”
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Brian Fanzo
- “Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes”
- “Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility”
- “Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.”
- “Just Remember: The people that say, “Your dreams are impossible” have already quit on theirs.”
- “The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.”
- “Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.”
- “Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions!”
- “Think about it: What’s the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?”
- “Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.”
- “You know, you don’t need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.”
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James Lawrance
- “If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.”
- “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”
- “Don’t Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.”
- “When you think that you are done you’re only 40% in to what your body’s capable of doing. That’s just the limits that we put on ourselves.”
- “Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it.”
- “The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized”
- “Mental toughness is a lifestyle.”
- “If you choose to do something, attack it.”
- “Never let people who choose the path of least resistance steer you away from your chosen path of most resistance.”
- “The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one.”
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Henry James
- “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
- “If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.”
- “I don’t believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.”
- “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.”
- “Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”
- “I know how to make money. That’s what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.”
- “It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life; it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
- “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
- “Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.”
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Chris Gardner
- “The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.”
- “The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.”
- “There is no plan B for passion”
- “Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something.”
- “It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.”
- “Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.”
- “Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.”
- “If you want something, go get it. Period.”
- “It can be done, but you have to make it happen.”
- “The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.”
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Simon Sinek
- “If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you’re thinking too small.”
- “If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we’re not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.”
- “Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can’t see how it’s going to manifest.”
- “To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.”
- “The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.”
- “What others think about you is none of your business.”
- The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.”
- “Good or bad, habits always deliver results.”
- “It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.”
- “It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.”
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Rob Verhelst
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
- “I never said half the crap people said I did.”
- “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
- “God does not play dice.”
- “To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.”
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- “Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”
- “I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.”
- “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
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Amy Purdy
- “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
- “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
- “Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.”
- “Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we’ve never thought of before.”
- “The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
- “Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
- “If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.”
- “A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.”
- “Kids grow up awfully fast these days, “she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.”
- “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
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Shannon Miller
- “Nothing works unless you do the work.”
- “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title”
- “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
- “The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.”
- “No one will believe in you until you believe in you.”
- “Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage”
- “The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.”
- “Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.”
- “The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.”
- “The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.”
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John Morgan
- “In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.”
- “Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.”
- “The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.”
- “Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.”
- “I wish I’d known sooner that success isn’t defined by who goes the longest without vacation.”
- “Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.”
- “Those who have matured spiritually now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.”
- “Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.”
- “Life is shaped from the inside out.”
- “Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.”
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Alex Bellini
- “It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.”
- “Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!”
- “Life’s opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a ‘retirement age’ from those pursuits!”
- “Don’t waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn’t a blessing – it was a lesson.”
- “Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.”
- “Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!”
- “Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.”
- Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
- Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
- The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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Dan Cockerell
- “My best successes came on the heels of failures.”
- “I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.”
- “I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.”
- “Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.”
- “People imitate their leader. Lead by example.”
- “You steal the limelight, you steal the market share”
- “The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.”
- “Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.”
- “The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head”
- “A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.”
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Bershan Shaw
- “Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.”
- “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
- “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
- “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
- “To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.”
- “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.”
- “The first person you lead is you.”
- “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.”
- “Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.”
- “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
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Justin Constantine
- “Start your day with why, then get on with your what.”
- “It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn.”
- “Once-dominant empires have failed for this very reason. People get to a certain level of success and get too comfortable.”
- “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
- “Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them down with aggressive pursuit.”
- “Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit.”
- “It’s not enough to choose to be successful. You have to dig deeper than that to find your core motivation, to activate your superpower. Your why-power.”
- “You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
- “Everyone is affected by three kinds of influences: input (what you feed your mind), associations (the people with whom you spend time), and environment (your surroundings).”
- “When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.”
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Cindy Miller
- “Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.”
- “Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.”
- “If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”
- “when man and women are able to respect and accept their differences the love has a chance to blossom”
- “I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away.”
- “Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves”
- “we are unique individuals with unique experiences”
- “That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.”
- “Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.”
- “If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”
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Lisa Fey
- “Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.”
- “The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”
- “When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.”
- “When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.”
- “There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.”
- “Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
- “Act happy, feel happy, is happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”
- “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”
- “Act happy, feel happy, is happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”
- “Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”
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John Beede
- “You can have, do, or be anything you want.”
- “Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it’s so much easier when you have support.”
- “If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.”
- “Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.”
- “You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.”
- “Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.”
- “With the Law of Creation in play, you not only see the abundance and opportunity that surrounds you. You’re able to TAKE it.”
- “The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.”
- “Remember that: Money will always match your mindset.”
- “True prosperity is an incredible gift. It’s a gift YOU deserve. And no matter what anyone says, it’s a gift that IS available to you – right now.”
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Ron Garan
- “There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”
- “She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.”
- “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
- “When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.”
- “No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
- “The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.”
- “Don’t go to eighth grade…don’t talk about something old…don’t bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.”
- “Here’s what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.”
- “You tell them – you tell them there’s a cost…..Every decision we make in life, there’s always a cost.”
- “In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”
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Ben Hines
- “You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.”
- “We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”
- “Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
- “The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.”
- “Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.”
- “If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.”
- “It’s hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.”
- “The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies’ priority lists.”
- “Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.”
- “Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”
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Jay Johnson
- When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
- The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
- Smile… Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you’ll meet the one who takes your breath away!
- Walking into a room filled with people you don’t know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
- And I’m the worst liar of all time.
- My best vacation is your worst nightmare.
- Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
- Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
- The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
Success And Motivation
- “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” –John Anthony
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” –John Wooden
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” –John Anthony
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn
- “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” –John Anthony
- “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” –Swami Vivekananda
- “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney
- “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” –John Anthony
- “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” –John Anthony
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
- “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” –Proverb
- “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” –John Anthony
- “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” –Vaibhav Shah
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” –Chris Grosser
- “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” –Albert Einstein
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” –Thomas A. Edison
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” –Kim Garst
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” –David Brinkley
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” –Henry Ford
- “If you’re going through hell keep going.” –Winston Churchill
- “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” –John Anthony
- “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” –John Anthony
- “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” –Oscar Wilde
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” –John Anthony
- “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” –Bruce Feirstein
- “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” –Lolly Daskal
- “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” –Oprah Winfrey
- “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” –John Anthony
- “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” –Albert Einstein
- “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” –John Anthony
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” –John Anthony
- “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” –John Anthony
- “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –Lolly Daskal
- “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” –John Anthony
- “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” –John Anthony
- “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” –John Anthony
- “You can do anything, but not everything.” –John Anthony
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” –Steve Jobs
- “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” –Ray Goforth
- “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” –A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” –Napoleon Hill
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” –Robert Collier
- “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” –Thomas J. Watson
- “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” –Michael John Bobak
- “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” –Philippos
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” –Mark Twain
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” –Pablo Picasso
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
- “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” –Earl Nightingale
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vidal Sassoon
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” –Les Brown
- “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” –Martha Stewart
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” –John Anthony
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” –Colin R. Davis
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” –Ralph Nader
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou
- “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates
- “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” –Henry Kravis
- “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” –Mark Caine
- “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” –Tony Robbins
- “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –Audre Lorde
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” –Mark Twain
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” –Bruce Lee
- “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” –Roger Staubach
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” –Dale Carnegie
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” –Jim Rohn
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” –Gurbaksh Chahal
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” –Robert Kiyosaki
- “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” –T. Harv Eker
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” –Steve Jobs
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” –Robert Frost
- “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” –Napoleon Hill
- “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” –Denis Waitley
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” –Jane Smiley
- “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” –George Bernard Shaw
- “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” –Diane Ackerman
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” –Michael Jordan
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun
- “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” –Dale Carnegie
- “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” –Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” –Francis Chan
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” –George Lorimer
- “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
- “Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” –John C. Maxwell
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” –Wayne Dyer
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” –Anatole France
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” –Dale Carnegie
- “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” –Booker T. Washington
- “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” –Theodore N. Vail
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville
- “What would you do if you weren’t afraid.” –Spencer Johnson
- “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” –Washington Irving
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” –Truman Capote
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” –John R. Wooden
- “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” –Margaret Thatcher
- “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” –Vince Lombardi
Optimism
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller
- “Better things are coming.” Anonymous
- “Turn your face towards the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.” Anonymous
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Anonymous
- “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” Mary Lou Retton
- “Keep believing and never give up.” Anonymous
- “Optimism is the essence of every fighter; the belief that no matter what you’ll find a way to win.” MMA
- “The optimistic mind achieves more and lives happier.” Anonymous
- “One cannot think crooked and walk straight.” Anonymous
- “Optimism is the foundation of courage.” Anonymous
- “Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.” Wayne W.Dyer
- “Sometimes the wrong choices take us to the right places.” KushAndWisdom
- “Start thinking of what could go right.” Anonymous
- “Keep looking up….That’s the secret of life.” Snoopy
- “I will make better mistakes tomorrow.” Anonymous
- “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.” Dalai Lama
- “Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.” Conor McGregor
- “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” Colin Powell
- “Embrace optimism.” Anonymous
- “The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn’t matter.” Edward Albee
- “Everything’s gonna be alright.” Bob Marley
- “As I look forward, I’m very optimistic about the things I see ahead.” Bill Gates
- “Expect the best.” ATGW
- “I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.” Anonymous
- “You are destined for success.” ATGW
- “Be optimistic about the future, believe in your dreams, with hard work and dedication you can make your dreams a reality.” ATGW
- “Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” William James
- “Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.”
- “I will succeed.” ATGW
- “The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” Norman Cousins
- “I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.” Sylvester Stallone
- “I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.” Jon Anderson
- “Optimism is the opium of the people.” Milan Kundera
- “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” Winston Churchill
- “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”― George Bernard Shaw
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”― Winston S. Churchill
- “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”― Arundhati Roy
- “Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”― Rick Steves
- “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”― Dalai Lama XIV
- “I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”― Eugene O’Neill
- “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.” ― Winston S. Churchill
- “Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.” ― Colin Powell
- “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”― Philip K. Dick
- “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”― Antonio Gramsci
- “The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.” ― William Arthur Ward
- “Pessimism never won any battle.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!”― Mark A. Cooper
- “My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”― Henry Rollins
- “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”― Lucille Ball
- “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”― Noam Chomsky
- “Optimism,” said Cacambo, “What is that?” “Alas!” replied Candide, “It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”― Voltaire
- “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”― Thomas L. Friedman
- “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”― Alphonse Karr
- “The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”― Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.” ― Mark Twain
- “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
- “there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”― Stephen King
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.”― Kamila Shamsie
- “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”– Winston Churchill
- “What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak [and] there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances.” ―Wayne W. Dyer
- “Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.” ―Norman Cousins
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”– Voltaire
- “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”– Arthur C. Clarke
- “When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”– Charles R. Swindoll
- “Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.” – Margaret Atwood
- “When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” ―Martin Luther
- “Optimism is the foundation of courage.” – Nicholas M. Butler
- “I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.” – Dolores O’Riordan
- “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
- “The optimist looks at the horizon and sees an opportunity; the pessimist peers into the distance and fears a problem.” – William Arthur Ward
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “Be more optimistic. Pessimism is a kind of behavior that you learn . Hoping for the best and believing that everything is going to be fine in the end helps to reduce stress.” – David Brown
- “To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.” – Conor McGregor
- “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” – Brian Tracy
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
- “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
- “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” – Winston Churchill
- “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
- “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” – Harry S. Truman
- “Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.” – Kathleen A. Brehony
- “Cultivate an optimistic mind use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” – Rodolfo Costa
- “Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.” – Price Pritchett
- “I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.” – Jenny Han
- “I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.” – Ana Monnar
- “Life doesn’t get much better than this.” – Stanford Wong
- “If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve.” – Benny Bellamacina
- “I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.” – Josh Cathey
- “Optimism is the source of havingness.” – Meir Ezra
- “There may be clouds in the sky, and rain may be falling, but this doesn’t mean the sun has stopped shining.” – Connor Chalfant
- “He is a psychopath who is unnecessarily optimistic.” – Prashant Bhushan Tyagi
- “I’m nothing if not optimistic about all the wrong things.” – Janci Patterson
- “All of my days are held in your hand, crafted into your perfect Plan.” – Moosa Rahat
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
Education and Learning
1) The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
2) Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela
3) Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
4) The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris
5) The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. – Carl Rogers
6) An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
7) “When we talk about 21st century pedagogy, we have to consider many things—the objectives of education, the curriculum, how assessment strategies work, the kind of technology infrastructure involved, and how leadership and policy facilitate attaining education goals.” – Chris Dede, Harvard University
8) The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. – Alvin Toffler
9) “Every child deserves a teacher who believes in them. Be that one!”
10) “School is not about transmitting information. Kids can get any information they want. The trick is to motivate them to want to get the right information and then give them a choice about how to get that information.” – Phil Schlechty, Founder, Schlechty Center
11) “There is no single best way to teach because there is no single best way to learn.” – Chris Dede, Harvard University
12) The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities. – Benjamin Greene
13) The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. To improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, rather than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie
14) I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. – Albert Einstein
15) Lifelong learning = ongoing, voluntary, & self-motivated pursuit of knowledge. – Craig Kemp
16) Yes, kids love technology, but they also love legos, scented markers, handstands, books and mud puddles. It’s all about balance.
17) Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. – Albert Einstein
18) The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. – Bishop Mandell Creighton
19) If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. – Buckminster Fuller
20) It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein
21) Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating – C. B. Neblette
22) One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child – Carl Jung
23) If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness – Carl Rogers
24) Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature – Charlotte Mason
25) Teaching is far from perfect. It’s messy, and it’s in that mess that you will craft your teaching and really enjoy the journey – Lisa Dabbs, Educator
26) Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live – Charlotte Mason
27) Technology can become the “wings” that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before—if we will allow it – Jenny Arledge
28) If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people – Chinese proverb
29) You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives – Clay P. Bedford
30) Education is soul crafting – Cornel West
31) Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted – Dr. Seuss
32) For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain – Dorothy L. Sayers
33) I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework – Edith Ann
34) In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists – Eric Hoffer
35) My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself – George Bernard Shaw
36) Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way – George Evans
37) A child educated only at school is an uneducated child – George Santayana
38) What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child – George Bernard Shaw
39) Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun – Glenn Doman
40) In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how – Harry K. Wong
41) We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him – Henry David Thoreau
42) A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron – Horace Mann
43) If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn – Ignacio Estrada
44) Teaching is a strategic act of engagement – James Bellanca
45) The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done – Jean Piaget
46) True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it – Jill Eggleton
47) No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education – John Carolus
48) All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted – John Holt
49) “Education is evolving due to the impact of the Internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary to engage students not in the curriculum we are responsible for teaching, but in school. Period.” – April Chamberlain
50) No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back – John Holt
51) The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn – John Lubbock
52) Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants – John W. Gardner
53) Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners – John Holt
54) The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves – Joseph Campbell
55) Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college – Lillian Smith
56) We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself – Lord Alexander
57) You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education – Marilyn Howshall
58) Never let formal education get in the way of your learning – Mark Twain
59) A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
60) Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up – Pablo Picasso
61) A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations – Patricia Neal
62) Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity ― Ken Robinson
63) Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time – Rabbinical Saying
64) “It is not about the technology; it’s about sharing knowledge and information, communicating efficiently, building learning communities and creating a culture of professionalism in schools. These are the key responsibilities of all educational leaders” – Marion Ginapolis
65) If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it – Samuel Richardson
66) I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think – Socrates
67) One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try – Sophocles
68) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary – Thomas Carruthers
69) An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get – William Feather
70) The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him—not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender – Woodrow Wilson
71) Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn – Benjamin Franklin
72) I am not a teacher, but an awakener – Robert Frost
73) Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon – E.M. Forster
74) The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled – Plutarch
75) Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each – Plato
76) What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows – Paulo Coelho
77) True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character – David O. McKay
78) In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn – Phil Collins
79) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever – Mahatma Gandhi
80) You can never be overdressed or overeducated – Oscar Wilde
81) The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts – C.S. Lewis
82) “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed – it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.” ― Ken Robinson.
83) Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today – Malcolm X
84) Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones – Charlotte Bronte
85) Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil – C.S. Lewis
86) The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead – Aristotle
87) Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps teaching stays young – Henry Ford
88) The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know – Michel Legrand
89) Think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker – Stanley Kubrick
90) I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know – Bill Watterson
91) To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society – Theodore Roosevelt
92) Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune – Jim Rohn
93) We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there – Neil deGrasse Tyson
94) Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t – Pete Seeger
95) True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own – Nikos Kazantzakis
96) Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning – Anton Chekhov
97) “Integrating technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better academic outcomes than employing either technique alone.”
98) I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained – Walt Disney Company
99) Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life – Brigham Young
100) When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling – John Taylor Gatto
Teaching
- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”- Dalai Lama
- “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
- “It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”- Albert Einstein
- “Intelligence plus character– that is the goal of true education.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.”- Ann Lieberman
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.”- Ever Garrison
- “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”- William Butler Yeats
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.” – Carl Jung
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
- “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
- “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
- “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
- “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
- “A good teacher is like a candle — it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- “Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb
- “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” – John Anthony
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
- “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me.” – APJ Abdul Kalam
- “A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.”- Forest Witcraft
- “Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.” – Margaret Riel
- “It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.” – John Anthony
- “Summer vacation is the time when parents realize teachers are grossly underpaid.”- John Anthony
- “Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.”- Dr. Ralph Tyler
- “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”- John Anthony
- “The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer
- “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.”- Aristotle
- “What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?” – Marcus T. Cicero
- “When we strive to become better teachers than we are, everyone in our classroom becomes better too.”- Robert John Meehan
- “Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” – Aaron Bacall
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”- Henry Adams
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” – Helen Peters
- “He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
- “What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.” – John Anthony
- “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” – Gail Godwin
- “Discover wildlife! Be a teacher!”- John Anthony
- “I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.” – William Shakespeare
- “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
- “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
- “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”- Guy Kawasaki
- “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz
- “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
- “Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.” – Horace Mann
- “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” – Maria Montessori
- “Not all superheroes wear capes, some have teaching degrees.” – John Anthony
- “I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” – James Levine
- “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
- “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” – John C. Dana
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”- Japanese Proverb
- “Students don’t know how much you know until they know how much you care.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”— Charles Kuralt
- “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”- Joseph Addison
- “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”- John Dewy
- “To teach is to learn twice.”- Joseph Joubert
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”- Benjamin Franklin
- “The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”- Aristotle
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.” ― C.S. Lewis
- “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
- “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”- Edward Everett
- “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
- “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”- D. Martin
- “Cheers to all of the teachers who give out pencils every single day who know that they’ll never get them back.”- John Anthony
- “Don’t judge a teacher until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes.”- John Anthony
- “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”- Lily Tomlin
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” – John Anthony
- “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers
- “I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”- John Wooden
- “Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.”- Thomas Mckinnon
- “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.”- Maya Angelou
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.”- Alexandra K. Trenfor
- “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.”- William Prince
- “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” – American proverb
- “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” Cynthia Ozick
- “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”- Andy Rooney
- “A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” – Robert Lumsden
- “The teacher … must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.”- Maria Montessori
- “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
- “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” – Michel Legrand
- “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”- Phil Collins
- “To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator.”- Maria Montessori
- “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”- Margaret Mead
- “Without teachers, life would have no class.”- John Anthony
- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust
- “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”- GK Chesterton
- “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.”- Goethe
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”- Sydney J. Harris
- “A truly amazing teacher is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.”- John Anthony
- “A teacher nourishes the soul of a child for a lifetime.”- John Anthony
- “A truly special teacher is very wise and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.”- John Anthony
- “Intelligence plus character– that is the goal of true education.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has
High School and College
- “Do all the other things, the ambitious things—travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.” —George Saunders
- “There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday like a photograph coming into focus.” —Jodie Foster
- “You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” —Tom Brokaw
- “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” —Henry Peter Brougham
- “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” —Alfred Mercier
- “Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!” —Louisa May Alcott
- “Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.” —Frederick W. Robertson
- “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” —Nora Ephron
- “You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference.” —Janet Napolitano
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
- “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul?” —Joseph Addison
- “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
- “We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short circuit the path to success.” —Tory Burch
- “It is absolutely still possible to make a difference.” —Michelle Obama
- “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller
- “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
- “The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give into peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.” —Ellen DeGeneres
- “The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.” —Neil Gaiman
- “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” —Senator Orrin Hatch
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” —Anatole France
- “Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.” —Kerry Washington
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.” —Edward Koch
- “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston
- “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.” —Michael Josephson
- “The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear.” —Grace Helbig
- “Kid, you’ll move mountains.” —Dr. Seuss
- “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” —Albert Einstein
- “Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” —H Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
- “Now the first suggestion is to aim high, but be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.” —Sandra Day O’Connor
- “Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’” —Cory Booker
- “When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.” —Adlai E. Stevenson
- “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
- “I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” —Jim Carrey
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve Jobs
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.” —J.K. Rowling
- “When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” —Ellen DeGeneres
- “So, I say to you, forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.” —Oprah Winfrey
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
- “The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” —Arnold Palmer
- “Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.” —Neil Gaiman
- “If you hear a voice within you says “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” —Vincent Van Gogh
- “In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.” —Kristian Kan
- “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk.” —Sandra Bullock
- “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
- “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.” —Anna Quindlen
- “I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.” —Maya Angelou
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” —Stephen King
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” —Charles Swindoll
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison
- “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” —John Wooden
- “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa
- “Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” —Art Linkletter
- “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” —William Arthur Ward
- “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” —Bob Marley
- “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” —Oscar Wilde
- “Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.” —Kyle Chandler
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, and drink the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” —Anthony Robbins
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” —Grandma Moses
- “My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” —Sarah Brown
- “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
- “Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.” —Ellen DeGeneres
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
- “Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.” —Gary Bolding
- “To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.” —George W. Bush
- “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” —Betty Reese
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar
- “Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” —Oscar Wilde
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison
- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.” —Joe Girard
- “The road to success is always under construction.” —Lily Tomlin
- “There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You
can even!” —Katie Couric - “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” —Charles Schulz
- “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” —Theodore Roosevelt
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” —Audrey Hepburn
- “Be bold, be courageous, be your best.” —Gabrielle Gifford’s
- “There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.” —Dick Costolo
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” —Confucius
- “Follow your fear.” —Tina Fey
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
- “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” —Shakespeare
- “The tassel’s worth the hassle.” —Anonymous
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Believe and act is if it were impossible to fail.” —Charles Kettering
- “Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.” —Patch Adams
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” —Norman Vaughan
- “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” —Francois Rabelais
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” —Albert Einstein
- “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger
Stoicism
- “Life is long if you know how to use it.” — Seneca
- “Living is the least important activity of the preoccupied man; yet there is nothing which is harder to learn.” — Seneca
- “It does not matter how much time we are given if there is nowhere for it to settle; it escapes through the cracks and holes of the mind.” — Seneca
- “So it is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil.” — Seneca
- “Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own.” — Seneca
- “But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” — Seneca
- “You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life!” — Seneca
- “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” — Seneca
- “Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.” — Seneca
- “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.” — Seneca
- “So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.” — Seneca
- “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.” — Seneca
- “How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!” — Seneca
- “But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.” — Seneca
- “You have been preoccupied while life hastens on. Meanwhile death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that.” — Seneca
- Top Epictetus Stoic Quotes
- “Remember that you’re an actor in a play, which will be as the author chooses, short if he wants it to be short, and long if he wants it to be long. If he wants you to play the part of a beggar, act even that part with all your skill; and likewise if you’re playing a cripple, an official, or a private citizen. For that is your business, to act the role that is assigned to you as well as you can; but it is another’s part to select that role.” — Epictetus
- “Don’t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you’ll have a calm and happy life.” — Epictetus
- “…don’t look to what he is doing, but to what you must do if you are to keep your choice in harmony with nature. For no one will cause you harm if you don’t wish it; you’ll have been harmed only when you suppose that you’ve been harmed.” — Epictetus
- “The condition and character of a layman is this: that he never expects that benefit or harm will come to him from himself, but only from externals. The condition and character of a philosopher is this: that he expects all benefit and harm to come to him from himself.” — Epictetus
- “…if you regard only that which is your own as being your own, and that which isn’t your own as not being your own (as is indeed the case), no one will ever be able to coerce you, no one will hinder you, you’ll find fault with no one, you’ll accuse no one, you’ll do nothing whatever against your will, you’ll have no enemy, and no one will ever harm you because no harm can affect you.” — Epictetus
- “But for me every omen is favourable for I want it to be so; for whatever may come about, it is within my power to derive benefit from it.” — Epictetus
- “It isn’t the things themselves that disturb people, but the judgements that they form about them.” — Epictetus
- “For it is better to die of hunger, but free from distress and fear, than to live in plenty with a troubled mind.” — Epictetus
- “If someone handed over your body to somebody whom you encountered, you’d be furious; but that you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so that, if he abuses you, it becomes disturbed and confused, do you feel no shame at that?” — Epictetus
- “Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to choice, unless choice wills it to be so. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to choice. And tell yourself the same with regard to everything that happens to you; for you’ll find that it acts as an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.” — Epictetus
- “If you want to make progress, put up with being thought foolish and silly with regard to external things, and don’t even wish to give the impression of knowing anything about them.” — Epictetus
- “And even if you’re not yet a Socrates, you ought to live like someone who does in fact wish to be a Socrates.” — Epictetus
- “Remain silent for the most part, or say only what is essential, and in few words.” — Epictetus
- “Never call yourself a philosopher, and don’t talk among laymen for the most part about philosophical principles, but act in accordance with those principles…And accordingly, if any talk should arise among laymen about some philosophical principle, keep silent for the most part, for there is a great danger that you’ll simply vomit up what you haven’t properly digested.” — Epictetus
- “In each action that you undertake, consider what comes before and what follows after, and only then proceed to the action itself.” — Epictetus
- “In things relating to the body, take only as much as your bare need requires, with regard to food, for instance, or drink, clothes, housing … exclude everything that is for show or luxury.” — Epictetus
- Top Marcus Aurelius Stoic Quotes
- “He does only what is his to do, and considers constantly what the world has in store for him—doing his best, and trusting that all is for the best. For we carry our fate with us —and it carries us.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “For there is a single harmony. Just as the world forms a single body comprising all bodies, so fate forms a single purpose, comprising all purposes.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “To watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with them. To keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life below.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don’t be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and follow Nature—along the road they share.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too—ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one’s master and no one’s slave.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “What injures the hive injures the bee.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Whatever happens to you is for the good of the world. That would be enough right there. But if you look closely you’ll generally notice something else as well: whatever happens to a single person is for the good of others.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Indifference to external events. And a commitment to justice in your own acts. Which means: thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the gods; watch over human beings. Our lives are short. The only rewards of our existence here are an unstained character and unselfish acts.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for— the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’” — Marcus Aurelius
- “You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you—inside or out.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The mind without passions is a fortress. No place is more secure. Once we take refuge there we are safe forever. Not to see this is ignorance. To see it and not seek safety means misery.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “That things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm. You can return to life. Look at things as you did before. And life returns.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Your three components: body, breath, mind. Two are yours in trust; to the third alone you have clear title.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “For every action, ask: How does it affect me? Could I change my mind about it? But soon I’ll be dead, and the slate’s empty. So this is the only question: Is it the action of a responsible being, part of society, and subject to the same decrees as God?” — Marcus Aurelius
- “To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “‘If you seek tranquility, do less.’ Or (more accurately) do what’s essential, what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “To bear in mind constantly that all of this has happened before. And will happen again—the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging. Produce them in your mind, as you know them from experience or from history…All just the same. Only the people different.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
- Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One. — Marcus Aurelius
- You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.—Marcus Aurelius
- He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.—Seneca
- Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.—Seneca
- How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?—Epictetus
- Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.—Epictetus
- You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.―Marcus Aurelius
- Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.―Seneca
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.―Epictetus
- If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.—Seneca
- Stop drifting…Sprint to the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.—Marcus Aurelius
- Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.—Seneca
- They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.—Seneca
- Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.—Marcus Aurelius
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.―Seneca
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.―Epictetus
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.―Marcus Aurelius
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.―Epictetus
- Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.―Seneca
- If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Things stand outside of us, themselves by themselves, neither knowing anything of them nor expressing any judgment. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- It is like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or that this noble vintage [wine] is rotted grapes… perceptions like that… latching onto things and piercing through them, to see what they really are… to strip away the legend that encrusts them.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?”
– Epictetus, Enchiridion - Define for me now what the “indifferent” are. Whatever things we cannot control. Tell me the upshot. They are nothing to me.
– Epictetus, Enchiridion - It’s something like going on an ocean voyage. What can I do? Pick the captain, the boat, the date, and the best time to sail. But then a storm hits… What are my options? I do the only thing I am in a position to do, drown — but fearlessly, without bawling or crying out to God, because I know that what born must is also dying.
– Epictetus, Discourses
Parenting
- “When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.” — Rose Kennedy
- “It would be easy to be a parent if you said ‘yes’ all the time and gave them what they wanted, but you just can’t do that. There are certain things, of course, where you’re going to say ‘no’ and be tougher on.” — Chrissy Teigen
- “Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.” — Lotte Bailyn
- “So often, children are punished for being human. They are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, we adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. ” — Rebecca Eanes
- “No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice.” ― Marisa de los Santos
- “What’s done to children, they will do to society.” — Karl Menninger
- “You learn so much about yourself from being a parent and you care more about the world you are raising your kids in.” — Kim Kardashian
- “If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says “keep away from children.” — Susan Savannah
- “The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.” — Mell Lazarus
- “The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.” — Brene Brown
- “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.” — John Steinbeck
- “(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer.”― Jodi Picoult
- “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling
- “One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”― Jane Goodall
- “Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” — Carl Jung
- “You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” — Polish Proverb
- “There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” — Anne Lamott
- “We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”— Christopher Morley
- “One hundred years from now it won’t matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.”— Forest E. Witcraft
- “Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” — Miriam Makeba
- “Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t. — Mignon McLaughlin
- “No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.” — Marcelene Cox
- “I didn’t think I’d have a child before I got married, but hey, it turned out that way and I wouldn’t change a thing. I didn’t think I’d have dessert before breakfast this morning, but hey, it turned out that way and I wouldn’t change thing.” — Mindy Kaling
- “Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.” — Erma Bombeck
- “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”― John Wilmot
- “You start to focus less on what’s wrong for you and more on what’s wrong for the next generation. It mobilizes you. Some moms channel that into the PTA, and other moms channel it into marching for women’s rights, so moms need to be more rebellious than ever.” — Pink
- “Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” ― Barbara Johnson
- “There is no such thing as being the perfect parent. So just be a real one.” — Sue Atkins
- “If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.” — Fred Rogers
- “Having a child is like getting a tattoo … on your face. You better be committed.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.” ― Phyllis Diller
- “A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” — John Andrew Holmes
- “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
- “Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” — Ray Romano
- “The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” — Ewan McGregor
- “We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.” — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
- “Every day, in a hundred small ways our children ask, “Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter” Their behavior often reflects our response.” — L.R. Knost
- “Let’s be honest, kids take the number one position and it’s haaaaard to make the time for yourself.” — Kate Hudson
- “Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather
- “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish.” — Carrie Underwood
- “I feel like I was never this patient, but it’s made me a nicer person, and I apply it to all aspects of my life.” — Hilary Duff
- “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver
- Children should not be burdened with making us happy, nor blamed for making us sad or angry. Children are not responsible for how we feel. We are. — Larissa Dann
- “Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean your needs aren’t important.” — Hilary Duff
- “On our 6 a.m. walk, my daughter asked where the moon goes each morning. I let her know it’s in heaven, visiting Daddy’s freedom.” — Ryan Reynolds
- “We’re doing the best we can, so it would be really nice if moms supported each other instead of pointing out the flaws. We’re all trying to do the best we can.” — Jana Kramer
- “I don’t think it matters how many parents you’ve got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “Parenthood…it’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last.” — Peter Krause
- “I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing.” ― Jim Gaffigan
- “The point of parenting is not to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.”— Bridgett Miller
- “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P. J. O’Rourke
- “The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.” — Benjamin Spock
- “Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.” — Paul Reiser
- “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” — Nia Vardalos
- Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. — Fran Lebowitz
- “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”― Anne Frank
- “One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.” ― Anne Fadiman
- “I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” — Michelle Obama
- “To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.” — Olivia Newton-John
- “If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” — Bette Davis
- “You see much more of your children once they leave home.” — Lucille Ball
- “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson
- “Children must never work for our love, they must rest in it.”— Gordon Neufeld
- “For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.” — Michelle Obama
- “It is time for parents to teach young people that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” –Maya Angelou
- “All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. — Erma Bombeck
- “Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.” — Anthony Withman
- The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. — Janet Blaustone
- “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” — Jackie Kennedy
- “What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”― Nicholas Sparks
- “The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be.”
- “Motherhood has completely changed me. It’s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it.” — Diane Keaton
- “Nurturing never happens in a rush.” — Emma Scheib
- Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll
- Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one. — Glennon Melton
- “My advice for new moms is this: You’ve have never been a mom before, and your baby is new to this world. So be kind to yourself, and be patient. It takes time, but you’ll get the hang of it!” — Hillary Clinton
- “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.” — Dorothy Parker
- “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” — Matthew Jacobson
- “Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.”— Irene Rosenfeld
- “A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” — Banksy
- “It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child.” — Julianne Moore
- “You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”— Tina Fey
- “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
- “The weird thing is that you’re just not a parent … and then you are. It takes your brain a couple hours to catch up to that.” — Seth Meyers
- “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”― Russell Baker
- “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” ― Frank A. Clark
- “Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.” — Walt Disney
- “Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity — a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.” — Rose Kennedy
- “Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” — Gloria Steinem
- “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” ― Jesse Jackson
- “Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.” ― Fredrik Backman
- “The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.” — Meryl Streep
- “I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.” — Reese Witherspoon
- “Motherhood [and Fatherhood] has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.” — Jessalyn Gilsig
- “Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Learning
- The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs
- If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- 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. -Oprah Winfrey
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
- Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon
- Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
- When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
- Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa
- “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -Margaret Mead
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle
- “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” -Anne Frank
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. -Maya Angelou
- The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
- In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
- “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” -Babe Ruth
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” -Oscar Wilde
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Tony Robbins
- “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -Albert Einstein
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” -Dalai Lama
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” -John Lennon
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -Mae West
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
- “May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” -Hans Christian Andersen
- “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” -John Wooden
- “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – H. Lawrence
- Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe
- Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
- Love the life you live. Live the life you love. -Bob Marley
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
- Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. -Charles Dickens
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs
- Life is trying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” -Marilyn Monroe
- “Life is a long lesson in humility.” -James M. Barrie
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost
- “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” -Bob Marley
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Seuss
- “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” -Charles Dickens
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” -Steve Jobs
- “Life is trying things to see if they work.” -Ray Bradbury
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison
- Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill
- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs
- The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson
- The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- “I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston S. Churchill
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
- “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” -Zig Ziglar
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” -Estee Lauder
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” -Conrad Hilton
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Colin Powell
- “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” -Barack Obama
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -Herman Melville
- “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” -Jim Rohn
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” -Colin R. Davis
- “I failed my way to success.” -Thomas Edison
- “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” -James Cameron
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” -Steve Jobs
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” -John Wooden
Peace and Unity
- “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” —Saint Francis de Sales
- “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” —Norman Vincent Peale
- “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama
- “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” —Lao Tzu
- “When things change inside you, things change around you.” —Unknown
- “Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.” —Alanis Morissette
- “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” — Sylvia Plath
- “You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.” —Stacy London
- “Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay … calm.” —Yves Behar
- “Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” —Baba Hari Das
- “Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong.” —Karen Salmansohn
- “Peace begins with a smile.” —Mother Teresa
- “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” —J. Donald Walters
- “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy
- “Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.” —Estella Eliot
- “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
- “If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.” —Frank Sinatra
- “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” —Albert Einstein
- “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” —Jimi Hendrix
- “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” —John Lennon
- “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” —Ronald Reagan
- “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” —John Lewis
- “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” ―Indira Gandhi
- “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” —Maha Ghosananda
- “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” —Desmond Tutu
- “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” – Baha’U’Llah
- “Unity and victory are synonymous.” – Samora Machel
- “Unity is strength, division is weakness.” – Swahili Proverb
- “You don’t get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.” – Jay Weatherill
- “The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “There is beauty and power in unity. We must be united in heart and mind. One world, one people.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.” – Theodore Bikel
- “Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.” – Henry Adams
- “Even the weak become strong when they are united.” – Friedrich von Schiller
- “Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.” – Suzy Kassem
- “Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.” – Ravi Zacharias
- “In union there is strength.” – Aesop
- “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.” – Kofi Annan
- “The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”― Somerset Maugham
- “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.” – Haile Selassie
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “No man can lead man, we have to have unity.” – Bob Marley
- “In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.” – George H. W. Bush
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
- “What we have to do… is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.” – Hillary Clinton
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
- “Society is unity in diversity.” – George H. Mead
- “Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.” – Haile Selassie
- “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
- “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”― Herman Melville
- “We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.” – Jimmy Carter
- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” – Buddha
- “What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.”- Edward Kennedy
- “There is more power in unity than division.” – Emanuel Cleaver
- “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.” – Thomas Paine
- “The peoples of the earth are one family.” – Ruth Benedict
- “Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.” – Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- “Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”― Hans Urs von Balthasar
- “Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.” – Eugene Delacroix
- “Variety is the soul of pleasure.” – Aphra Behn “Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” – Desmond Tutu
- “You don’t have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.” – Don Lemon
- “Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.” – Jintao Hu
- “We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.” – Ola Joseph
- “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “I feel my heartbreak to see a nation ripped apart by its own greatest strength–it’s diversity.” – Melissa Etheridge
- “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” – Ani DiFranco
- “The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.” – Democritus
- “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.” – Edward Enningful
- “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou
- “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” –Jacqueline Woodson
- “Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.” – Rene Dubos
- “It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.” – Mark Twain
- “There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.” – Isaac Asimov
- “I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” – John F. Kennedy
- “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
- “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” – John Donne
- “United we stand, divided we fall.” – Aesop
- “Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the noblest possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.” – Michael Novak
- “Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.” – Yo-Yo Ma
- “Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Peace requires everyone to be in the circle – wholeness, inclusion.” – Isabel Allende
- “It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.” – Alice Walker
- “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank
- “The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country’s greatest strengths.” –
Ban Ki-moon - “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” – Jimmy Carter
- “The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.” – Herbert Hoover
- “Our true nationality is mankind.” – G. Wells
Love
- A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous. – Ingrid Bergmen
- Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
- Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.- Ibn Abbad
- In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.- Margaret Anderson
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. – Janos Arnay
- Love is the beauty of the soul.- Saint Augustine
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.- Aristotle
- Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.- Aphra Behn
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.- Sarah Bernhardt
- In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.- Bliss and Cerney
- Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…- John Dunne
- What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…- Elizabeth Browning
- I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…- Elizabeth Browning
- Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.- Robert Browning
- But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.- Robert Burns
- She walks in Beauty, like the night
- Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
- And all that’s best of dark and bright
- Meet in her aspect and her eyes…- Lord Byron
- Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.- Lord Byron
- I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.- Roy Croft
- You’re nothing short of my everything.- Ralph Block
- The only true gift is a portion of yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thou art to me a delicious torment.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.- Euripides
- I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.- Andre Gide
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.- Robert Heinlein
- Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.- Victor Hugo
- It’s so easy, to think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.- Jaka
- Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.- John Keats
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller
- See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.- Gretchen Kemp
- When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.- Amy Lowell
- Make me immortal with a kiss.- Christopher Marlowe
- Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.- Christopher Marlowe
- Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.- Alphonse Marie de la Martine
- In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.- Mignon McLaughlin
- We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.- Pablo Neruda
- The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it…you and you alone make me feel that I am alive…Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.- George Moore
- In love there are two things: bodies and words.- Joyce Carol Oates
- I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.- Rumi
- I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.- Vita Sackville-West
- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.- George Sand
- Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.- Robert Sexton
- My heart is ever at your service.- William Shakespeare
- The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.- William Shakespeare
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.- Alexander Smith
- I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.- Song of Solomon
- Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.- Srzgarakarika
- To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.- Karen Sunde
- Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire…- A.C. Swinburne
- Love is friendship set on fire.- Jeremy Taylor
- Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.- Author John Anthony
- Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile…- Author John Anthony
- I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow.- Author John Anthony
- The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.- Author John Anthony
- To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.- Author John Anthony
- If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.- Author John Anthony
- If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.- Author John Anthony
- Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.- Author John Anthony
- Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet. – Author John Anthony
- The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.- Author John Anthony
- Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.- Vincent van Gogh
- Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.- Lope de Veg
- Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.- Paul Verlaine
- When a heart finds another, what’s a cloud more or less in the sky?- Wolf and Page
- The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. – Josiah G. Holland
- From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.- Author John Anthony
- The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.- Sir Hugh Walpole
- Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.- Erich Fromm
- You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.- Sam Keen
- The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.- Victor Hugo
- True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. – Germaine De Stael
- The life and love we create is the life and love we live.- Leo Buscaglia
- 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
- Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.- J. Isham
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.- Lao Tzu
- The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.- Author John Anthony
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.- St. Augustine
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.- Thomas Fuller
- Paradise is always where love dwells.- Jean Paul F. Richter
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.- Honore de Balzac
- We are all born for love… it is the principle existence and it’s only end.- Benjamin Disraeli
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.- Elizabeth Browning
- When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. – Dr Seuss
- If I know what love is, it is because of you.- Herman Hesse
- So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure.
- Without him, live no life.- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.- Bruce Lee
- She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
- And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.- Lord Byron
- A simple I love you means more than money….- Frank Sinatra
- How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning.- Thomas Campbell
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