Light Quotes
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“If it is to be, it is up to me.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain.”
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”
“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”
“Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.”
“Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. And, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do what I can.”
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
“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.”
“Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training and some are not.”
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”
“In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.”
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
“The present is what slips by us while we’re pondering the past and worrying about the future.”
“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.”
“We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.”
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”
“I don't believe in failure.”
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
“Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.”
“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles…. it empties today of its strength.”
“Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.”
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
“The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.”
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
“Inspiring people are vitamins for our spirits. They come in all kinds of disguises and descriptions. If you open your heart to being inspired, they will appear.”
“A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.”
“A pocket is no place for a smile.”
“Not by appointment do we meet delight.”
“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
“The miracle is not that we do work, but that we are happy to do it.”
“Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.”
“For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.”
“A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.\”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ”
“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy”
“Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.”
“A smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.”
“You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“Man can neither make, nor retain, one moment in time; it all comes to him by pure gift.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“One person working toward a dream is worth 99 people just working.”
“Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you have tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
“Know your limits…but never stop trying to exceed them.”
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the starts, but it is a disgrac”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” See Quote with Translation “The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”
“Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going.”
“He who thinks he has no faults has one.”
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?”
“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
“To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly.”
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.”
“Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“Suffering is the tuition one pays for a character degree.”
“Without forgiveness life is governed by…an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
“Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Little words never hurt a big idea.”
““Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.” ”
“It may be alright to be content with what you have, never with what you are.”
“It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”
“Don’t be afraid to give your best at 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.”
“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
“Being defeated is often temporary, giving up makes it permanent.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”
“May you live every day of your life.”
“Set yourself up for success and anything is possible.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.”
“Always strive to add rungs to your ladder of life.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who really make it in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
“You get credit for what you finish, not what you start.”
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
“I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.”
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for.”
“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
“Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions. They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes.”
“One man with courage makes a majority.”
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ”
“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 experiences behind him.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.”
“Behold the turtle, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
“If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
“Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.”
“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spines crumble.”
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win. By fearing to attempt.”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat law suit.”
“Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past.”
“Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
“Adversity and loss make a man wise.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.”
“When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.”
“We can’t become what we need by remaining what we are.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could…”
“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.”
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ”
“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
“What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks.”
“Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.”
“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.”
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
“When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.”
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
“The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
“Never fight an inanimate object.”
“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.”
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“It takes a long time to grow young.”
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between.”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”
“Here’s the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”
“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”
“Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.”
“We’re always getting ready to live, but never living. ”
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.”
“Do something for somebody every day for which you don't get paid.”
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.”
“There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.”
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.”
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
“Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.”
“The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
“Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.”
“Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.”
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.”
“He who says he never needs help, most does.”
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”
“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”
“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.”
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat law suit.”
“Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past.”
“Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
“Adversity and loss make a man wise.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.”
“When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.”
“We can’t become what we need by remaining what we are.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could…”
“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.”
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ”
“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
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