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50 Best Inspirational Quotes

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1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

50 best inspirational quotes25. “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

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Never Give Up Quotes

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Never Give Up Quotes will make your day better. I promise!

Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. – Sidney Sheldon

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. – Zig Ziglar

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win. – Vince Lombardi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. – Anonymous

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

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right. – Henry Ford

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore

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

Powerful Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

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

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Clever Quotes

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Funny Clever Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain

I intend to live forever, or die trying. – Groucho Marx

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. – Mark Twain

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. – Mel Brooks

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. – Groucho Marx

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. – W. C. Fields

Golf is a good walk spoiled. – Mark Twain

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know. – Groucho Marx

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. – W. C. Fields

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. – Mel Brooks

Too clever is dumb.- Ogden Nash

Clever Quotes on Life

Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? – Groucho Marx

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. – John Lennon

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Anonymous

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. – Jalal al-Din Rumi

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. – Robert A. Heinlein

A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. – Groucho Marx

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken

Clever Quotes about Life

The road to success is always under construction. – Lily Tomlin

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. – H. L. Mencken

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. – Albert Schweitzer

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. – Israel Zangwill

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac Asimov

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. – Walter Kerr

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. – Albert Einstein

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. – John Peel

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! – Tom Lehrer

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. – Tom Lehrer

If you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. – Mel Brooks

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson, but…

Clever Quotes for Facebook

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. – Groucho Marx

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? – H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. – H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. – H. L. Mencken

Clever Sayings for Facebook

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. – Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. – Mae West

Clever Sayings

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. – Mark Twain

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you. – Tom Lehrer

The lack of money is the root of all evil. – Mark Twain

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers

Clever Phrases

To the best of my knowledge the following clever phrases are all anonymous. Come to think of it, would anyone really admit to writing any of these clever phrases?

The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.

I’m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

I love my attitude problem.

Some days you’re the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly, usually for the same reason.

Join the Army, travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them.

When everything comes your way you’re in the wrong lane.

Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.

Half the people you know are below average.

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Clever Sayings and Quotes

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less. – Lily Tomlin

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde

Get the facts first. You can distort them later. – Mark Twain

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. – Oscar Wilde

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. – Mark Twain

I can resist everything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. – Oscar Wilde

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. – Mark Twain

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. – Mark Twain

Life Mottos

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Life Mottos to Live By

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Attitude is everything. – Anonymous

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to travel well than to arrive. – The Buddha

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance lightly with life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as I think it is. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life’s burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don’t have the power to make life “fair,” but I do have the power to make life joyful. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life Mottos about Courage, Taking Action, and Persevering

Do it Now! – Napoleon Hill

Let’s Roll. – Todd Beamer

Whatever it takes! – Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. – Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words. – Anonymous

Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda (Star Wars movie)

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

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

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

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t ever give up. – Anonymous

Never Quit. – Anonymous

Winners never quit and quitters never win! – Vince Lombardi

Practice makes perfect. – Anonymous

Seize the day (Carpe Diem) – ancient Roman

Keep the Faith. – Anonymous

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Hard work pays off. – Anonymous

Roll with the punches. – Anonymous

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb

Life Mottos about Self-Respect

Above all to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

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

Know thyself. – Socrates

Believe in yourself. – Anonymous

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

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

Life Mottos about Purpose, Dreams, and Setting Goals

Be the best that you can be. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Choose with no regret. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Reach for the stars. – Anonymous

Follow Your Dreams. – Anonymous

Live Your Dreams.- Les Brown

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Byrne

Life is what you make it. – Anonymous

Nice Quotes

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He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu

Earth laughs in flowers.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared. – The Buddha

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. – Marianne Williamson

Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe

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

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

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them. – Epictetus

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

From caring comes courage. – Lao Tzu

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Maimonides

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

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack

Perseverance Quotes

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

He conquers who endures. ~Persius

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault

You can’t go through life quitting everything. If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author Unknown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering

One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ~William James

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis

Lies Quotes

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. – Aristotle

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. – Steven Soderbergh

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. – B. Traven

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. – Author Unknown

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it’s boots on. – James Watt

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. – Zohar

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. – Clare Booth Luce

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find out the truth. – Ashleigh Brilliant

He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabian Proverb

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. – Senegalese Proverb

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. – Friedrich Nietzsche

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. – H. L. Mencken

It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Lenin

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Mark Twain

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. – Billy Boy Franklin

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. – Mark Twain

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. – Saki

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. – Sophocles

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. – Latin Proverb

That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. – Alexander Haig

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato

A liar should have a good memory. – Quintilian

Liars need to have good memories. – Algernon Sidney