Best Quotes of All Time!
We LOVE to collect positive, motivational, and inspiring quotes!!
In no particular order…
Here’s a list of our TOP 100+ favorite quotes and sayings:
- “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before!” ~Maya Angelou
- “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” ~Italian Proverb
- “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We rise by lifting others.” ~Germany Kent
- “When you feel like stopping think about why you started.” ~unknown
- “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” ~John Dryden
- “Time is how you spend your love.” ~Zadie Smith
- “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~Rudyard Kipling
- “A mind is like a parachute – it doesn’t work unless it’s open” ~Frank Zappa
- “Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” ~Erica Jong
- “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” ~Desmond Tutu
- “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~Neil Gaiman
- “If you did not get what you want it was a sign that you did not really want it or you tried to bargain over the price.” ~Rudyard Kipling
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ~Roy T. Bennett
- “Children’s minds are like banks-whatever you put in, you get back 10 years later with interest.” ~Dr Cline
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~Jim Rohn
- “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself” ~Wayne W. Dyer
- “If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?” ~Shannon L. Alder
- “What we focus on we create—Be it good or bad.” ~Gabrielle Bernstein
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may not remember, involve me and I’ll understand.” ~Native American proverb
- “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” ~Tal Ben-Shahar
- “A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for.” ~John Shedd
- “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. ~Fred Devito
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~George Addair
- “Look for what is good and you will certainly find it.” ~Anne Perry
- “If you get up high enough the sun will always shine.” ~unknown
- “Tough times never last, tough people do.” ~Robert H. Schuller
- “Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.” ~Stephen Hawking
- “Sometimes you’ve taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed.” ~unknown
- “Rewrite your tale of woe as a tale of wow.” ~Karen Salmansohn
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ~Lou Holtz
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~Winston Churchill
- “How you do anything is how you do everything.” ~Zen Buddhist Saying
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~Mae West
- “You are only one thought away from a good feeling.” ~Sheila Krystal
- “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ~Vernon Law
- “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” ~Diane Ackerman
- “The miracle is this, the more we share… the more we have.” ~Leonard Nimoy
- “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Happiness is not contained in what you get; happiness is gained by what you become.” ~Jim Rohn
- “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” ~African Proverb
- “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
- “The Earth without art is just eh.” ~unknown
- “Oftentimes, everything you want is a mere inch outside your comfort zone.” ~Bryan Johnson
- “Hidden in all misfortune is good fortune.” -Concept in The Tao Te Ching
- “Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.” ~Peter T. McIntyre
- “Having a dream you don’t pursue is like buying an ice-cream cone and watching it melt…” ~Frank Papasso
- “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
- “It’s the silence between the notes that makes the music.” ~Timothy Ferriss
- “He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.” ~Swedish Proverb
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ~Peter Ustinov
- “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” ~Chinese Proverb
- “To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a bit better… To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.“ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Every person you meet in life is either a warning or an example—a warning of what not to do or an example of what to do.” ~Jairek Robbins
- “A winner is a loser who tried one more time.” ~unknown
- “Hope is a form of conscious dream making.” ~Kilroy J. Oldster
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” ~Mary Anne Radmacher
- “The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality, not the quantity of life.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.” ~Robin Hobb
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
- “Hope is like car keys, they’re easy to lose, but if you do enough digging, then you’ll see it was not far away.” ~Unknown
- “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” ~Walt Disney
- “Keep skid-chains on your tongue; always say less than you think. How you say things often counts far more than what you say.” ~The Road To Happiness
- “Don’t grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~Rumi
- “Pride, gratitude, and compassion, push us not only to cooperate with others but also to help our own future selves.” ~Scott Marcus
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~Oprah
- “Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.” ~Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
- “The noblest art is that of making others happy.” ~P.T Barnum
- “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward
- “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” ~George W. Crane
- “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone.” ~Audrey Hepburn
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~Nelson Mandela
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~George Bernard Shaw
- “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” ~William Arthur Ward
- “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ~Marcus Aurelius
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~Thomas Edison
- “Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.”~Italian Proverb
- “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ~Chico Xavier
- “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ~Linda Grayson
- “The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.” ~John Greenleaf Whittier
- “When you close your heart or close your mind, you hide within the darkness within you.” ~Michael A. Singer
- “The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.” ~Roy T. Bennett
- “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ~George Gordon Byron
- “It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” ~David Steindl-Rast
- “Life grows lovely where you are.” ~Mathilde Blind
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot
- “We might not have the freedom to control our situations, but we have the freedom to find meaning in every experience.” ~Jian Jiang
- “Endeavor to live a simple life, but filled with complex love.” ~Auliq-Ice
- “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.” ~Paulo Coelho
- “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ~William Wordsworth
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ~Pablo Picasso
- “Gratitude was never a noun; it’s secretly a verb. It is not a place you accept defeat, settle in for broken dreams or call it the best life will get. Gratitude is getting out of laziness, self pity, denial and insecurity, in order to walk through that door that has been open for you this entire time.” ~Shannon L. Alder
- “Friendship is like a book. It takes a few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.” ~unknown
- “When the outlook isn’t good, try the uplook.” ~Zig Ziglar
- “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” ~Chinese Proverb
- “A sense of purpose is an incredible alarm clock.” ~Unknown
- “Happiness is wanting what you have.” ~Bryan Callen
- “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ~Stephen Chbosky
- “We do not see the world as it is but as we are.” ~Anaïs Nin
- “A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” ~John Burroughs
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ~Warren Buffett.
- “Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.” ~Krista Tippett
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ~Robert Kiyosaki
- “The road to success is always under construction.” ~Lily Tomlin
- “There are two great days in your life….One being the day you are born….the other being the day you find out why.” ~Mark Twain
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