“150 Best Quotes.

compiled by
Sunny Lim
“The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step.”– Lao Tzu
“If you want to succeed you should strike
out on new paths rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success.”
- John D. Rockefeller
“Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.”
- Albert Einstein
“Many of life’s failures are experienced
by people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.”–
Thomas Edison
“The pain you feel
today is the strength
you feel tomorrow.
For every challenge
encountered there is
opportunity for
growth.” – Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% of how I react to it. –
Charles Swindoll
We become what we think about.
–Earl Nightingale
Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t
do than by the ones you did do, so throw off
the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor,
catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore,
Dream, Discover.
–Mark Twain
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years
ago. The second best time is now.
–Chinese Proverb
“The only thing that
stands between you
and your dream is the
will to try and the
belief that it is actually
possible.”
– Joel Brown
Eighty percent of
success is showing up.
–Woody Allen
The only person you are destined to
become is the person you decide to be.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Either you run the day, or the day
runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your
fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
“Go where you are celebrated – not
tolerated. If they can’t see the real value
of you, it’s time for a new start.” –
Unknown
“The difference
between a successful
person and others is
not lack of strength
not a lack of
knowledge but rather a
lack of will.”– Vince
Lombardi
“I am thankful for all
of those who said NO
to me. Its because of
them I’m doing it
myself.”– Albert
Einstein
“If not us, who? If not
now, when?”– John F.
Kennedy
“Challenges are what
make life interesting
and overcoming them
is what makes life
meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine
“We become what we think about.”
– Earl Nightingale
“The great thing in this world is not
so much where you stand, as in
what direction you are moving.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Live each day as if your life had
just begun.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 “The only way to do great work is to
love what you do. If you haven’t
found it yet, keep looking. Don’t
settle.”
– Steve Jobs
“Rule #1 of life.
Do what makes
YOU happy.”
– Unknown
“Forget all the
reasons it won’t
work and believe
the one reason that
it will.”
– Unknown
“Forget all the reasons it won’t work
and believe the one reason that it
will.”
– Unknown
 “When you say “It’s hard”, it
actually means “I’m not strong
enough to fight for it”. Stop
saying its hard. Think positive!”
– Unknown
 You may be
disappointed if
you fail, but you
are doomed if
you don’t try.
–Beverly Sills
 Remember no one can make you
feel inferior without your consent.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“The biggest failure you can have in
life is making the mistake of never
trying at all.”
– Unknown
“No one is going to
hand me success. I
must go out & get it
myself. That’s why I’m
here. To dominate. To
conquer. Both the
world, and myself.”
– Unknown
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90%
how we react to it.”
– Dennis P. Kimbro
“Be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is
worth living, and your
belief will help create
the fact.”
– William James
 “The best
revenge is massive
success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that
life is worth living, and your belief
will help create the fact.”
– William James
 “Nurture your mind
with great thoughts. To
believe in the heroic
makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Do not go where the
path may lead, go
instead where there is
no path and leave a
trail.”– Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“I am not a
product of my
circumstances. I
am a product of
my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey
“Keep away from
people who try to
belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do
that, but the really
great makes you feel
that you, too, can
become great.”– Mark
Twain
 “Don’t worry about
failures, worry about
the chances you miss
when you don’t even
try.”
– Jack Canfield
“Life has two rules:
#1 Never quit
#2 Always remember
rule # 1.”
– Unknown
“The only way of finding the limits of the
possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Accept responsibility for your
life. Know that it is you who will
get you where you want to go,
no one else.”
– Les Brown
“I don’t regret the things
I’ve done, I regret the
things I didn’t do when I
had the chance.”
– Unknown
“Its hard to wait around for
something you know might never
happen; but its harder to give up
when you know its everything you
want.”
– Unknown
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
–Japanese Proverb
When one door of happiness
closes, another opens, but
often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not
see the one that has been
opened for us.
–Helen Keller
Strive not to be a success, but
rather to be of value.
–Albert Einstein
Winning isn’t everything, but
wanting to win is.
–Vince Lombardi
It is not what you do for your
children, but what you have taught
them to do for themselves, that will
make them successful human
beings.
–Ann Landers
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
 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
Nothing is impossible, the word
itself says, “I’m possible!”
–Audrey Hepburn
If you can dream it,
you can achieve it.
–Zig Ziglar
“The best way to
predict the future is to
create it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“To accomplish great
things, we must not
only act, but also
dream, not only plan,
but also believe.”
– Anatole France
“Good things come to people who
wait, but better things come to those
who go out and get them.”
– Anonymous
“Don’t wait for your feelings to
change to take the action. Take the
action and your feelings will change.”
– Barbara Baron
“Education costs money. But then so
does ignorance.”
– Sir Claus Moser
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my
career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times
I’ve been trusted to take the game winning
shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over
and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed.
–Michael Jordan
“Either you run the day,
or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do, so throw off the
bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore,
Dream, Discover.”
–Mark Twain
 “Live each day as if your life had just
begun.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“There is no royal road to anything. One
thing at a time, all things in succession.
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly.
That which grows slowly, endures.”
– Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is
worth living, and your belief will help
create the fact.”
– William James
“Accept responsibility
for your life. Know
that it is you who will
get you where you
want to go, no one
else.”
– Les Brown
“We learn something
from everyone who
passes through our
lives.. Some lessons
are painful, some are
painless.. but, all are
priceless.”
– Unknown
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything
is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to
look beyond the imperfections.”
– Unknown
“Three things you cannot recover
in life:
the WORD after it’s said,
the MOMENT after it’s missed and
the TIME after it’s gone.
Be Careful!”
– Unknown
“Courage is the first of human
qualities because it is the quality
which guarantees all others.”
– Winston Churchill
“The person who says it cannot
be done should not interrupt the
person who is doing it.”
–Chinese Proverb
“When everything seems to be
going against you, remember
that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it.”
–Henry Ford
“Everything you’ve
ever wanted is on the
other side of fear.”
–George Addair
“Life isn’t about getting
and having, it’s about
giving and being.”
–Kevin Kruse
 ”We are all a little weird and life’s a
little weird, and when we find someone
whose weirdness is compatible with
ours, we join up with them and fall in
mutual weirdness and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Believe you can and
you’re halfway there.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
 “There is only one way to avoid
criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and
be nothing.”
–Aristotle
”The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched, but
must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
The successful know that the road to
success is always under construction;
they understand the roughness of it
and never expected it to be smooth.
”Your time is limited, so don’t
waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs
“A truly rich man is
one whose children
run into his arms
when his hands are
empty.”
– Unknown
”The easiest thing to
be in the world is you.
The most difficult
thing to be is what
other people want you
to be.”
– Leo Buscaglia
 ”Life isn’t about
finding yourself. Life
is about creating
yourself.”
– G.B. Shaw
”If I create from the heart,
nearly everything works; if from
the head, almost nothing.”
– Marc Chagall
”Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
– Mother Teresa
”Some succeed because they
are destined. Some succeed
because they are determined.”
– Unknown
 ”Destiny is a feeling you have
that you know something about
yourself nobody else does. The
picture you have in your own
mind of what you’re about will
come true.”
– Bob Dylan
“Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already
mastered, you will never grow.”
― Ronald E. Osborn
 “I cannot teach anybody
anything. I can only make them
think.”
― Socrates
“The only person who is educated
is the one who has learned how to
learn and change.”
― Carl R. Rogers
“Courage is the most
important of all the
virtues because
without courage, you
can’t practice any
other virtue
consistently.”
– Maya Angelou
“Instead of worrying about what you
cannot control, shift your energy to
what you can create”
– Roy T. Bennett
“Let us be grateful to people
who make us happy; they are
the charming gardeners who
make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“A grateful mind is a great
mind which
eventually attracts to itself
great things.”
– Plato
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that
this very moment is the only one you know
you have for sure.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Gratitude is riches.
Complaint is poverty.”
– Unknown
 “Enjoy the little
things, for one day
you may look back
and realize they were
the big things.”
– Robert Brault
“The deepest craving of human
nature is the need to be
appreciated.”
– William James
 “If you do not
appreciate every day of
your life, who said that
the days and years will
be an asset for the
future?”
-Sunday Adelaja
“Change your expectation for appreciation
and the world changes instantly.”
- Tony Robbins
 “Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“That which does not kill us
makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found
10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison
 “The difference between
ordinary and extraordinary
is that little extra.”
– Jimmy Johnson
“You miss 100% of the
shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
 “Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Motivation is a fire from within.
If someone else tries to light that
fire under you, chances are it will
burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“Anyone who stops learning
is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young. The
greatest thing in life is to
keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford
“It takes courage to
grow up and turn out
to be who you really
are.”
– E.E. Cummings
 “Courage doesn’t
always roar. Sometimes
courage is the little voice
at the end of the day that
says ‘I’ll try again
tomorrow.'”
– Mary Anne
Radmacher
“Education is like a
double-edged sword. It
may be turned to
dangerous uses if it is
not properly handled.”
– Wu Ting-Fang
“The mind is like a flower. It does not
bloom without the lights of appreciation,
encouragement, and love.”
- Debasish Mridha
“Peace begins with a
smile.”
– Mother Teresa
“Life is like a camera.
Just focus on what’s
important, capture the
good times, develop
from the negatives,
and if things don’t
work out, just take
another shot.”
– Unknown
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
- Heraclitus
 “Without a purpose,
nothing should be done.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing is this world can take the place of
persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of
educated omnipotent.”
- Calvin Coolidge
 “Finish each day and be
done with it. You have done
what you could…
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit to
be encumbered with your
old nonsense.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have seen further it is
by standing on the
shoulders of giants.”
- Isaac Newton
“You can have anything in life that you
want, if you can just help enough other
people get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Know your enemy and know yourself
and you can fight a hundred battels
without disaster.”
- Sun Tzu
“There is only one success
– to be able to spend your
life in your own way.”
- Christopher Morley
 “People are not lazy. They just ha
impotent goal – that it, goals that do n
inspire them
- Anthony Robbi
 “Thinking is the hardest work
there is, which is the probable
reason why so few engage in it.”
- Henry Ford
 “Everything that
enlarges the sphere of
human powers, that
shows man he can do
what he thought he
could not do, is
valuable.”
- Ben Johnson
“Do what you can, with what you
have, where you are.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“If you do what you’ve
always done, you’ll get
what you’ve always
gotten.”
- Anonymous
“He who knows much about others may be
learned, but he who understand himself is
more intelligent. He who controls others
may be powerful, but he who has mastered
himself is mightier still.”
- Lao-Tsu
“There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want; and, after
that, to enjoy it.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith
 “If you could only
love enough, you
could be the most
powerful person in
the world.”
- Emmett Fox
“Real leaders are ordinary people with
extraordinary determinations.”
- John Seaman Garns
“The time to relax is when you don’t
have time for it.”
- Sydney J. Harris
“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or
to read about in history books – but it is
terrible when one has to live it.”
- Anonymous
 “You have to accept whatever comes,
and the only important thing is that you
meet it with the best you have to give.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is an old saying
‘The harder you try, the
luckier you get.’ I kind of
like that definition of luck.”
- Gerald Ford
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back
at it long. Take the reason of the thing into
your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes
are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be
changes. The future is yet in your power.”
- Hugh White
“Money is a terrible
master but an
excellent servant.”
- P.T. Barnum
 “Getting money is like digging with a
needle; spending it is like water soaking
into sand.”
- Japanese proverb
“The sure way to miss success is
to miss the opportunity.”
- Victor Chasles
“It is not necessary for all men to be
great in action. The greatest and
sublimest power is often simple
patience.”
- Horance Bushnell
 “Our growth depends not on how many
experiences we devour, but on how many
we digest.”
- Ralph W. Sockman
“A great man is one who can have power
and not abuse it.”
- Henry L. Doherty
“The most important thing to do in solving
a problem is to begin.”
- Frank Tyger
 “Without rest, a man cannot work;
without work, the rest does not give you
any benefits.”
- Anonymous
“Life is work, and everything you do
is so much more experience.
Sometimes you work for wages,
sometimes not, but what does
anybody make but a living? And
whatever you have you must either
use or lose.”
- Henry Ford
“Winning isn’t everything,
but wanting to win is.”
- Vince Lombardi
 “The more you learn what
to do with yourself, and the
more you do for others, the
more you will learn to enjoy
the abundant life.”
- William J. H. Boetcker
 “Wealth is a great
thing to have and a
great thing to
share.”
- Harold
Honickman
“Many a man never fails
because he never tries.”
- Norman MacEwan
“It is fine to celebrate success, but
it’s more important to heed the
lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates