Useful Quotes for life

Useful Quotes for life

Statius

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.  

Robert Byrne

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Walter Russell

Mediocrity is self- inflicted, genius self- bestowed.

Lord Halifax

A man, who is master of patience, is master of everything else. 

William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Jeremy Taylor

Idleness is the burial of a living man.

Vincent Lombardi

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

Simone Weil 

The intelligent man, who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man, who is proud of his large cell.

Clare Boothe Luce

There are no hopeless situations, there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Abraham Lincoln

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

St. Augustine

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean and at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass themselves by without wondering.

Proverbs

Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

Euripides 

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.  

George Bergman

What the world needs, more open minds and fewer open mouths.

Joe Kapp

Success is living up to your potential. That’s all. Wake up with a smile and go after life. Don’t just show up at the game – or at the office. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, feel it.

Carl E. Holmes

The full use of today is the best preparation for tomorrow.

Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense – no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Rudyard Kipling

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Max De Pree

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Daniel L. Reardon

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Mark

Whatever things so ever ye desire believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.  

Herman Melville

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed, in imitation. He who never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. If it be said that continual success is proof that a man wisely knows his powers. It is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp; but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Persistence-- The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Chester Barnand

To try and fail is at least to learn, to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been   

George Santayana

The earth has music for those who listen      

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills      

Rosalind Russell

Flops are part of life's menu and I have never been a girl to miss out on any of courses      

Aeschylus

When a man's willing and eager, the Gods join in      

David Frost

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally    

Adlai Stevenson

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them     

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths     

The Koran

He deserves praise who makes his companions laugh    

Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past     

John W. Newbern

People can be divided into three groups; those who make things happen, those who watch this happen, and those who wonder what happened      

Booker T. Washington

I will never let a man drag me down to the point of where I hate him    

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes      

St. Francis De Sales

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust      

Edward R. Morrow

One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions    

Adlai Stevenson

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them    

Samuel Johnson

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready to call a man Good man upon easier terms than I was formerly     

Victor Hugo

Learn from your failures, as well as your successes. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved   

John H. Rhoades

Do more than exist - live

Do more than touch - feel

Do more than look - observe

Do more than hear - listen

Do more than listen - understand

Do more than think - ponder

Do more than talk - say something     

Mike Ditka

You are never a loser until you quit trying     

Sadie Back

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you, you must acquire it     

Longfellow

How to deal with guilt: If something goes wrong and it was your fault, apologize, and forget about it. If it wasn't your fault, don't apologize     

J. Sig Paulson

Unity cannot be enforced; it must be demonstrated. Enforced unity becomes conformity     

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim    

Harry Emerson Fosdick

You must have the adventurous daring to accept yourself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best     

Edna Kaehale

The real measure of wealth is how much we would be worth if we lost our money. Experience is what you get when you did not get what you wanted     

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing; planning is everything     

Bernard M. Baruch

Never follow the crowd      

William Hazlitt

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard     

Paul J. Meyer

The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential    

William Shakespeare M. Baruch

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft' might win, by fearing to attempt     

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is more terrible than activity without thought

Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Dwight L. Moody 

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.  

Zig Ziglar

(a) You can get everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people   get what they want.
(b) Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will
(c) With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt
(d)Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for
(e) What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
(f) You can make positive deposits in your own economy everyday every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people
(g) Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success I life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
(h) You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win
(i) Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
(j) You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
(k) Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
(l) Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
(m) Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining- it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems.
(n) The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.