“I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was
impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they
said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you
think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s
not related to happiness.”
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
“I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.”
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
“I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.”
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the
suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search
of its dream.”
“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”
“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
“Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.”
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
“I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.”
“No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.”
“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five
percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their
friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”
“We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.”
“However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always
have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars,
desire what we do not have.”
“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
“The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.”
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
“I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.”
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at
peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it
demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of
people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of
sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the
engineers of the superseded.”
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”
“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a
soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on
the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping
itself alive.”
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows
only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you
are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only
path.”
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down
wonderful opportunities simply because don’t know what to do with it.”
“I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can
become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”
“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone
makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will
carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the
decision.”
“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we
strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes
better too.”
“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think
you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always
moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.”
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.”
“I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are
opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I
believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but
our fate is sealed.”
“I hate to be smart.”
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want
from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become
impossible: the fear of failure.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
“It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I
was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the
career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve
to death.”
“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
“I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me,
because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone
else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.”
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. Celine Dion
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J.K Rowling
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. Joan Rivers
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. Malala Yousafza
I’m fearless, I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on. Sofia Vergara
I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. Virginia Rometty (IBM)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
People think at the end of the day that a man is the only
answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me. Princess
Diana
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but
often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Helen Keller
Don’t live life in the past lane. Samantha Ettus
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel. Maya Angelou
I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse
as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge
people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Angelina
Jolie
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of The US from 1933 to 1945)
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey
Knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I
think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not
really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s
when you have a breakthrough. Marissa Mayer (Google, Yahoo)
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own
rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. Anne Sweeney (Walt Disney)
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. Vanessa Redgrave
The fools in life want things fast and easy—money, success, attention. Robert Greene
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. William Lloyd Garrison
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? Larry Flynt
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. To comprehend a nectar – requires sorest need. Emily Dickinson
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity
goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment
of escape. Alice James
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small
things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest
to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. Booker T.
Washington
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. John C. Maxwell
Practice like you’ve never won. Perform like you’ve never lost. Bernard F. Asuncion
There is only one kind of success that really matters:
the success of transforming ourselves, transforming our afflictions,
fear, and anger. This is the kind of success, the kind of power, that
will benefits us and others without causing any damage. Thich Nhat Hanh
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Henry Ward Beecher
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning
for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
Tennessee Williams
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Walter Scott
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little. Mason Cooley
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
A successful man is one who makes more money than his
wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana
Turner
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. Groucho Marx
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the
bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
Jordan Belfort (Wolf Of Wall Street)
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the
field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every
adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. W. Clement
Stone
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
To become an able and successful man in any profession,
three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward
Beecher
There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years. Bob Brown
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his
environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and
energy compel things to turn out as he desires. Orison Swett Marden
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson
A smile is a friend maker. Bangambiki Habyarimana
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. Santosh Kalwar
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. Thich Nhat Hanh
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Thich Nhat Hanh
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being. Rumi
A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others. Dalai Lama
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. Christina Rossetti
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. Connie Stevens
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison
I love those who can smile in trouble. Leonardo da Vinci
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your
tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Santosh Kalwar
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and
blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society,
will benefit from our peace. Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh
All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. Chris Hart
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt
Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything. Unknown
Use your smile to change the world but don’t let the world change your smile. Unknown
Of all the medicines in the inner life, a smile is by far the best medecine. Sri Chinmoy
Every smile makes you a day younger. Chinese proverb
She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes. Giovannie de Sadeleer
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life. Yoko Ono
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. Unknown
The living should smile, for the dead cannot. George R.R. Martin
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
Be careful, ever so careful, in trumpeting your own
achievements, and always talk less about yourself than about other
people. Modesty is generally preferable. Robert Greene
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle:
every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what
worked before will work today. Robert Greene
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with
people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be
happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you
are. Naval Ravikant
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. Elbert Hubbard
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying. Bruce Lee
Show me someone for whom success is less important than
the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather
than the ends, of their actions…I want to see him. This is the person I
have looked for a long time, the true genius. Epictetus
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is. Brianna Wiest
If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone
else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful.
Derek Sivers
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry,
and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben
Jonson
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. Felicity Kendal
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which
attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings
happiness to him. Max Planck
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to
copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to
sterility. Pablo Picasso
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
Success is the most important to many, to me it’s just a bonus. Lucas Grabeel
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. Larry Ellison
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies,
the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any
group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States
Marine Corps!”
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a
great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is
able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has
learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things,
and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of
life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all
of us need both love and charity.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in
the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our
responsibility.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.”
“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready
to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to
yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that
comes along.”
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears
to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful
experience behind him.”
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
“I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The
process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately
our own responsibility.”
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom
comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the
person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening
prospect.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important
requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been
honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done
the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the
ability to love others.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle
age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of
age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and
evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
“It’s your life – but only if you make it so. The standards by which
you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own
convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and
false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the
standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own
integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human
being.”
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security
unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can
choose a challenge instead of competence.”
“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to
his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s
world.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
“I never waste time looking back.”
“We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through
life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total
of the choices we have made.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”
“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you
possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience,
as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a
‘success.”
“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one
can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart
to live on when the dark days come.”
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
“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.”
“Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.”
“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an
impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you
have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are
freer than you were before.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be
criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.”
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“Courage is exhilarating.”
“Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.”
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the
utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer
experience.”
“Choose a challenge instead of competence.”
“All of life is a constant education.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost
all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
“Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.”
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
