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Quotes about being angry

Posted on May 18, 2012May 18, 2012 by

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Get mad, then get over it.” ~Colin Powell

“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

“You can’t get a pay raise when you’re angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.” – Stuart Wilde

“When Anger arises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” – Phyllis Diller

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.” – Mitch Albom

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” – Epictetus

“The best answer to anger is silence.” – Marcus Aurelius

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” – Cherie Carter-Scott

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” – Joan Lunden

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” – Khalil Gibran

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” – Mark Twain

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” – Alfred A. Montapert

50 Fitness Motivation

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

1. By exercise. I’ll tell you one thing, you don’t always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I’m on the road. – Jack LaLanne

2. The first wealth is health – Emerson

3. If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end. – Julius Erving

4. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. – Earl of Derby

5. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. – Unknown

6. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. – Unknown

7. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato

8. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. – Franklin P. Adams

10. If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. – Eubie Blake

11. Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. – Izaak Walton

12. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – JimRohn

13. The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. – Anthony Robbins

14. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. – Thomas Jefferson

15. Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley

16. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. – Richard Baker

17. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. – Wayne Dyer

18. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. – Charles Caleb Colton

19. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. – James Thomson

20. The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs. – J. O. De La Mettrie

21. A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh

22. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. – John F. Kennedy

23. Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. – Sasha Azevedo

24. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. – Goethe

25. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton

26. It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise. – Pliny the Younger

27. Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul. – Susie Michelle Cortright

28. Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit. – Sarah Louise Arnold

29. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. – Alexander von Humboldt

30. Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. – Paul Sweeney

31. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

33. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is. – Ellen Degeneres

34. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. – David Viscott

35. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips

36. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince. – Vincent Lombardi

37. The groundwork of all happiness is health. – Leigh Hunt

38. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister

39. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. – Elie Wiesel

40. Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. – Walter Dill Scott

41. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron

42. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

43. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems. – Paul J. Meyer

44. Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and crosstraining simply gives you the best return on your investment balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun. – Paula Newby- Fraser

45. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras

46. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

47. It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. – Muhammad Ali

48. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee

49. Exercise: you don’t have time not to. – Unknown

50. We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising. – Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Bread Quotes

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. – Omar Khayyam

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. – Cat Stevens

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. – Georges Bernanos

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

Acorns were good until bread was found. – Francis Bacon

Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread. – Jef I. Richards

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. – Robert Grosseteste

And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. – Sharron Angle

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. – Milton Berle

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden

At my age, I don’t buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? – Merle Haggard

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. – Nikolai Berdyaev

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it’s hard to say no. I can’t even have one piece, because when I start, I don’t stop. – Daniela Pestova

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. – William Tyndale

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! – George Rogers Clark

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. – Charles Horton Cooley

Eaten bread is forgotten. – Thomas Fuller

Quotes and Observations

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” ~Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then, I repeat myself. ~Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ~George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ~G. Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ~James Bovard, (Civil Libertarian, 1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ~Douglas Casey *Bill Clinton’s Classmate at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~Frederic Bastiat, French Economist, 1801-1850

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.~Ronald Reagan 1986

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! ~P.J. O’Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ~Voltaire 1764

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you! ~Pericles 430 B.C.

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. ~Mark Twain 1866

Talk is cheap except when Congress does it. ~Unknown

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ~Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ~Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ~Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~Herbert Spencer English Philosopher 1820-1903

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class …save Congress. ~Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ~Edward Langley Artist,1928-1995

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. ~Thomas Jefferson

25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston

2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy

3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg

5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson

7. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

8. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle

10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner

11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden

12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau

13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot

14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles

15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis

17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner

18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford

19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson

20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton

22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous

23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington

24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden

25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Ideas Quotes

Posted on May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one. – Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. – Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. – Albert Einstein

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing. – Warren Buffett

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. – John F. Kennedy

“I don’t know exactly where ideas come from. It’s just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.” – Jim Henson

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. – Coco Chanel

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. – Aristotle

College isn’t the place to go for ideas. – Helen Keller

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. – Walt Disney

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right. – Bill Gates

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford

Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison

God screens us evermore from premature ideas. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas. – Bob Dylan

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? – Dale Carnegie

Famous People Quotes #2

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Quotes to Inspire

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Let me show you a huge collection of Quotes to Inspire. Please take time and read all of them, select your favorite, and share with all your friends. Be happy! :)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” – Erving Goffman

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel De Cervantes

“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

”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

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

”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.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

”The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” – Sir James M. Barrie

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.” – Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

“Tell me I’ll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. 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

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Kierkegaard

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “ – Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

”Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Success Quotes

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

– “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero

– “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides

– “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil

– “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger

– “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

– “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright

– “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard

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

– “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

– “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham

– “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley

– “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi

– “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

– “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings

– “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield

– “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar

– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison

– “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin

– “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow

– “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare

– “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

– “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields

Famous Quotes About Life

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi

“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

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

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau