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Famous Short Quotes

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Being optimistic is one of the best thing you can do in your life. Life is easier and happier for an optimistic person. Let me show you some great optimism quotes to make you a more motivating day. Relax and enjoy.

Nothing lasts forever? Not even your troubles. – Arnold H Glasgow

Every exit is an entry somewhere. – Tom Stoppard

The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it. – Will Foley

There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. – Mark Twain

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

I would rather stay positive and get 60 percent good results than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results. – Joyce Meyer

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himslef positive results. – Norman Vincent Peale

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. – Susan Jeffers

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. – Emily Dickinson

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. – Helen Keller

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. – Frank A. Clark

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. – Unknown

Carry laughter with you wherever you go. – Hugh Sidey

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane. – Jimmy Buffet

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. – Max Eastman

If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. – Edgar Watson Howe

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity. – Philip Butler

Optimists are nostalgic about the future. – Chicago Tribune

Optimism is the foundation of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. – Helen Keller

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? – Michel De Saint-Pierre

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. – Helen Keller

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. – Daniel L. Reardon

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gladys Bronwys Stern

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there. – Norman Vincent Peale

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr