1.
“The tragedy of life is not death,
but what we let die inside of us while we live.” - Nouman Cousins
2.
“Be the change you wish to see in the
world.”
-
Mahatma Gandhi
3.
“Let us be kinder to one another.”
-
Aldous Huxley
4.
“Kindness, quite simply, is the rent
we must pay for the space we occupy on the planet.” - Robin Sharma
5.
“We live on a minor planet of a very
average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand
million galaxies.”
-
Stephen Hawking
6.
“Our lives are mere blips on the
canvas of eternity.”
7.
“The successful person has the habit of
doing things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like to do them either,
necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their
purpose.” - E.M Gray
8.
“Perhaps the most valuable result of
all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do ,
where it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” - Thomas Henry Huxley
9.
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by
actually doing it. Men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp
players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be
self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.” - Aristotle
10.
“If your life is worth thinking about, it is
worth writing about.|”
-
Robin Sharma
11.
“There is in the worst of fortune the
best of chance for a happy change.”
-
Euripides
12.
“It is better by noble boldness to
run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain
in a cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.” - Herodotus
13.
“Without the rich heart, wealth is an
ugly beggar.” - Emerson
14.
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is
knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. “ - David Star Jordan.
15.
“The end of man is an action and not a thought
though it were the noblest.”
16.
“The smallest of actions is always
better than the boldest of intentions.”
17.
”Treat people as if they were what
they ought to be and help them become what they are capable of being.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18.
”He who asks may be a fool for five minutes.
He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime.” - Chinese Proverb
19.
“If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to
the music he hears, however measure or far away. “ - Henry David Thoreau.
20.
“The words that enlighten the soul
are more precious than jewels. “
-
Hazrat Inayat Khan.
21.
“You are not here to merely make a living. You
are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with great vision,
with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world
and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
22.
“It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is what are you so busy about?” - Henry David Thoreau
23.
“Fortune is not on the side of the
faint-hearted.” - Sophocles
24.
“Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
25.
“Bring out the magic in your
mind.” - Al Koran
26.
”The hand that gives is the hand that
gathers.”
27.
“The person, who chases two rabbits,
catches neither.” - Confucius.
28.
“Let thy occupations be few if thou
wouldst lead a tranquil life.” – Marcus Aurelius.
29.
“There is nothing so useless as doing
effectively that which should not be done at all.”
30.
“So long as you live, keep learning
how to live.” -Seneca
31.
“To be paid more in your work, you must add
more value to the world. And the best way to begin adding value to the world is
to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills no one else has. Read
books no one else is reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or to put
it another way, you cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you
are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.”
32.
“If you follow the crowd, the place
you will most likely end up at is the exit.”
-
Robin Sharma
33.
“Read everyday something no one else is reading.
Think every day, something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to
be always part of unanimity.” -
Christopher Morley
34.
“The great and glorious masterpiece
of men is to live to the point.” – Montaigne
35.
”I’d rather have roses on my table
than diamonds on my neck.” - Emma
Goldman
36.
“Your life is not a dress rehearsal.”
37.
“One of the most tragic things I know
about human nature is that all of us put off living. We are all dreaming of
some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that
are blooming outside our windows today.”
- Dale Carnegie
38.
“Take your life into your hands and
what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” - Erica Jong.
39.
“The days come and go like muffled
and veiled figures sent from a distant , friendly party, but they say nothing,
and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently
away.” - Emerson
40.
“As you walk down the fairway of
life, you smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” - Ben Hogan (Golf Legend).
41.
“All man’s miseries derive from not being
able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
-Blaise Pascal
42.
“Death ought to be right there before
the eyes of those who are young just as much as before the eyes of those who
are very old. Every day, therefore should be regulated as if it were one that brings
up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.” - Ancient Thinkers
43.
“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.” – George Bernard Shaw
44.
“If you can fill the unforgiving
minute with sixty seconds worth of distance
run, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.” - Rudyard Kipling.
run, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.” - Rudyard Kipling.
45.
“Take the course opposite to custom;
you will almost always do well.” –Rousseau
46.
“The deepest personal defeat suffered
by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable
of becoming and what one has in fact become.” - Ashley Montague.
47.
“Too many people spend more time
focusing on their weaknesses rather than developing their strengths.”
48.
“The weakest among us has a gift
however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used
will be a gift also to his race.” – Ruskin
49.
“When I admire the wonder of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the creator.” - Mahatma Gandhi
50.
“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Aim for the company of immortals.” -
David Ogilvy
51.
“We first make our habits and then
our habits make us.” - John Dryden
52.
“The skeleton of habit alone upholds
the human frame.” - Virginia Wolf
53.
“Powerful indeed is the empire of
habit.” - Publilius Syrus
54.
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that
the violet sheds on the heal that crushed it.” - Mark Twain
55.
“No pessimist ever discovered the
secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to
the human spirit.” - Hellen Keller
56.
“Through the window of the eye, the
sun regards the world’s beauty. Who would believe that a small scene of nature
could contain the images of the universe?
- Leonardo da Vinci
57.
“I don’t know what your destiny will
be but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be happy are those
who have sought and found how to serve.”
- Albert Schweitzer
58.
“One can never pay in gratitude; one
can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.” - Anne Morrow Lindley
59.
“There is nothing in the world more
valuable than friendship. Those who banish it from their lives remove as it
were the sun from the earth, because of all nature’s gifts, it is most
beautiful and the most pleasing.” - A
Philosopher.
60.
“No two minds ever come together in a
spirit of harmony without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible
force which may be likened to a third mind.”
- Napoleon Hill
61.
“In the midst of winter, I found
there was within me an invisible summer.” – Albert Camus
62.
“We see the world not as it is but as
we are.” - Old Saying
63.
“Humankind’s common instinct for
reality has always held the world to be essentially a theater for action.” - William James
64.
“The tree that has the most fruits is
the tree that bends to the ground.”
65.
“We should be careful to get out of
an experience only the wisdom that is in it- and stop there; lest we be like
the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. It will never sit down on a hot
stove lid again and that is well; but also it will never sit down on a cold one
anymore.” - Mark Twain
66.
“My belief is not that the good body
by any bodily excellence improves the soul, but on the contrary, that good
soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be
possible.” - Plato
67.
“The heights by which great men
reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their
companions slept were toiling upwards in the night.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
68.
“Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at
a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunity.” - Thomas Edison
69.
“Nurture your mind with great
thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” - Benjamin Disraeli
70.
“It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.” - Seneca
71.
“God give us the grace to accept with
serenity, the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which
should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.” - The Serenity prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr
72.
“The world after all, is not so
unendurable, when a person gets a chance to look at and smell it and feel its
texture and be alone with it. The acquaintance with the world- this renewal of
the magical happiness and wonderment which you felt when you were a child, such is the purpose of taking walks.” - Alan Devoe
73.
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a
state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and by outgrowing
the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The
way to keep going is to keep faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep
your hope young.” – L.F.Phelan
74.
“Man must not allow the clock and
calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of his life is a miracle and
a mystery.” - H.G. Wells
75.
“When you are inspired by some great
purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break the bonds. Your
mind transcends limitation, your consciousness expands in every direction and
you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become
alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever
dreamed yourself to be.” - Patanjali
76.
“The master in the art of living
makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his
leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his life
and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision
of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is
working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.” - James Michener
77.
“There is no higher religion than
human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” - Albert Schweitzer
78.
“A little fragrance always clings to
the hand that gives you roses.” -
Ancient Chinese.
79.
“We live in an age where we have
conquered the highest of mountains but have yet to master ourselves. We have
taller buildings but shorter tempers, more possessions but less happiness,
fuller minds but emptier lives.” - Robin
Sharma
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