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Famous Lucille Ball Quotes

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“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

famous lucille ball quotes“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

Funny Quotes About Parents

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“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.” – Bill Cosby

“There are two things that a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and its mother’s age.” – Benjamin Spock

“I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.” – Woody Allen

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.” – Bill Cosby

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” – Peter Ustinov

“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy.” – Michelle Pfeiffer

“Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” – Joyce Armor

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” – Yogi Berra

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” – Jim Morrison

“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” – Rodney Dangerfield

funny quotes about parents“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.” – Dick Cavett

“That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.” – Heather Armstrong

“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.” – Peter De Vries

“Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better is asking for it.” – Erma Bombeck

“My husband and I have decided to start a family while my parents are still young enough to look after them.” – Rita Rudner

“Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” – John Locke

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.” – Ogden Nash

“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” – Kobe Bryant

“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.” – Dave Barry

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.” – Franz Kafka

“The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.” – Natalie Portman

Tony Robbins Quotes

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. –Tony Robbins Quotes

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. –Tony Robbins Quotes

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. –Tony Robbins Quotes

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. –Tony Robbins Quotes

Tony Robbins QuotesPeople are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them. –Tony Robbins Quotes

If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. –Tony Robbins Quotes

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? –Tony Robbins Quotes

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. –Tony Robbins Quotes

Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. –Tony Robbins Quotes

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives. –Tony Robbins Quotes

Life Quotes

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There are a lot of people who wrote things about life. Let me show you what some of them tell us. Some wonderful life quotes just for you. Enjoy!

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible

Life QuotesThe art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James

Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten

Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn

Life Quotes

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In Europe, now it is morning. It’s 9 AM. I dare you to start this perfect day with some great life quotes.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E. B. White

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I love life because what more is there.” – Anthony Hopkins

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” – John Burroughs

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James

“Only a few things are really important.” – Marie Dressler

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life-you just hang around until you get used to it.” – Charles M. Schulz

“May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” – H. L. Mencken

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” – William Lyon Phelps

“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.” – Karen Horney

Realities of Life

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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. – Sun Tzu
By always taking out and never putting in, the bottom is soon reached. – Spanish proverb
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. – Confucius
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. – Lao Tzu
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. – Confucius
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese proverb
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? – Confucius
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. – Confucius
If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people. – Chinese Proverb
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. – Bruce Lee
The cautious seldom err. – Confucius
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. – Confucius
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. – Confucius
The man of wisdom is never in two minds about right and wrong; the man of benevolence never worries about the future; the man of courage is never afraid. – Confucius
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. – Confucius
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. – Japanese proverb
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. – Confucius
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. – Confucius
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. – Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. – Confucius
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. – Confucius
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. – Confucius
When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. – Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. – Confucius
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? – Confucius

Senior Quotes

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher