Life Quotations | Page 4

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Get mad, then get over it.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love is the absence of judgment.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

The more you know the less you need to say.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Tears are words that need to be written.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.