Life Quotes

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian Proverb

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
John Maxwell

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Be not afraid or dismayed at this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but Gods.
Bible

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
Diana Rankin

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazier

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus

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

Either I will find a way or make one, it is what you are.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoyevski

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Segoyewatha

It is easier to believe the bad stuff about you than the good stuff.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
Denis Waitley

When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

A man should not sleep on silk till he has walked on sand.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

To do the Impossible, You have to see the Invisible.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Baltasar Gracian

If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter. Chekov

You may not realize it when it happens, but at kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

When the world says “Give Up”, Hope whispers “Try It One More Time.

Life is a journey and only you hold the key.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.
Lakshmi Mitta

Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid.
John Wayne

Each problem has hidden within it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
Joseph Sugarman

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream-but create.
Maxwell Maltz

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.
Wayne Dyer

We’re afraid of losing what we have,
whether it’s our life or our possessions and property.
But this fear evaporates when we understand
that our life stories and the history of the world
were written by the same hand.
The Alchemist

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone
about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab

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

All man miseries derive from not being able sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician)

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

A limit on what you will do puts a limit on what you can do.
Dexter Yager

IF AN EGG BROKEN FROM OUTSIDE FORCE……..A LIFE ENDS.
IF AN EGG BREAKS FROM WITHIN…….LIFE BEGINS ..
GREAT THINGS ALWAYS BEGAN FROM WITHIN .
Unknown

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver

He, who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Why look behind you, you can’t change it. Why fret over the future, it’s not here. Why don’t you live for today, and make it so wonderful it’s worth remembering.
Unknown

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God’s spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Unknown

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Fall seven times; stand up eight.
Unknown

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Victor Hugo

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the pieces.
Jill Pendley

All is well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
Rabelais

Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace

It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Unknown