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251 Life Quotes – Inspiring the Happy, Good and Funny in Life

Your time is limited,
so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life.
–Steve Jobs

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
–Spencer Johnson

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I–I took the one less traveled by, And that has made
all the difference.
–Robert Frost

Become the kind of leader that people
would follow voluntarily;
even if you had no title or position.
–Brian Tracy

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
–Oprah Winfrey

A man who dares to waste one hour of life
has not discovered the value of life.
–Charles Darwin

A journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.
–Lao Tzu

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
–Larry Elder

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
–Albert Einstein

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the
bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore, Dream,
Discover.
–Mark Twain

All the forces in the world are not so powerful
as an idea whose time has come.
–Victor Hugo

A leader is best when people barely know he
exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
–Lao Tzu

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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
–Publilius Syrus

A goal is not always meant to be reached;
it often serves simply as something to aim at.
–Bruce Lee

Definiteness of purpose
is the starting point of all achievement.
–W. Clement Stone

Fall seven times and stand up eight.
–Japanese Proverb

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has
imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry Thoreau

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
–Diana Scharf Hunt

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted
to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed.
–Michael Jordan

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to
please everybody.
–Herbert Swope

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.
–Lord Chesterfield

I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product of my decisions.
–Stephen Covey

Life is what happens to you
while you’re busy making other plans.
–John Lennon

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
–Chinese Proverb

Whatever the mind of man can conceive
and believe, it can achieve.
–Napoleon Hill

Dream big and dare to fail.
–Norman Vaughan

If you want to lift yourself up,
lift up someone else.
–Booker T. Washington

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
–George Patton

Life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% of how I react to it.
–Charles Swindoll

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
–Henry David Thoreau

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

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship,
don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
–Sheryl Sandberg

Impossible is a word to be found
only in the dictionary of fools.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

Build your own dreams,
or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
–Farrah Gray

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?
–Anthony Robbins

Too many of us are not living our dreams
because we are living our fears.
–Les Brown

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
–Zig Ziglar

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
–Napoleon Hill

Life isn’t about getting
and having,
it’s about giving and being.
–Kevin Kruse

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That’s why it’s called the present.
–Unknown

It is better to have lived one day as a tiger
than a thousand years as a sheep.
–Tibetan saying

My interest in life comes from
setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and
trying to rise above them.
–Richard Branson

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
–General George Patton

Money is a wonderful thing,
but it is possible to pay too high a price for it.
–Alexander Bloch

It’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
–Abraham Lincoln

The only way to do great work
is to love what you do.
–Steve Jobs

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the
compassion to listen to the needs of others.
–Douglas MacArthur

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you’ll land among the stars.
–Les Brown

Life is not measured by the
number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
–Maya Angelou

If you’re going through hell, keep going!
–Winston Churchill

Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
–Albert Einstein

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
–Will Smith

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
–Buddha

Take care of the minutes and the hours
will take care of themselves.
–Lord Chesterfield

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck,
leads the flock to fly and follow.
–Chinese Proverb

The two most important days in your life
are the day you are born
and the day you find out why.
–Mark Twain

We are too busy mopping the floor
to turn off the faucet.
–Unknown

You manage things; you lead people.
–Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

What you do has far greater impact
than what you say.
–Stephen Covey

The art of leadership is saying no,
not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
–Tony Blair

To command is to serve,
nothing more and nothing less.
–Andre Malraux

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and
go do it. Because what the world needs is people who
have come alive.
–Howard Thurman

A leader is one who knows the way,
goes the way, and shows the way.
–John C. Maxwell

A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
–Rosalynn Carter

A man who wants to lead the orchestra
must turn his back on the crowd.
–Max Lucado

A good leader is a person who takes
a little more than his share of the blame
and a little less than his share of the credit.
–John C. Maxwell

A leader is a dealer in hope.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

A day wasted on others
is not wasted on one’s self.
–Charles Dickens

All the flowers of all of the tomorrows
are in the seeds of today.
–Chinese Proverb

All great achievements require time.
–Maya Angelou

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go
and what he wants to be or do.
–Norman Vincent Peale

All that really belongs to us is time;
even he who has nothing else has that.
–Baltasar Gracián

Arise, awake, stop not until
your goal is achieved.
–Swami Vivekananda

An average person with average talents
and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that
person has clear, focused goals.
–Mary Kay Ash

An unexamined life is not worth living.
–Socrates

Arriving at one goal
is the starting point to another.
–John Dewey

Ask and it will be given to you;
search, and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened for you.
–Jesus

Be mindful of how you approach time.
Watching the clock is not the same
as watching the sun rise.
–Sophia Bedford–Pierce

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is
all about growing others.
–Jack Welch

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
–Theodore Roosevelt

Certain things catch your eye,
but pursue only those that capture the heart.
–Ancient Indian Proverb

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
–Joshua J. Marine

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for;
it is a thing to be achieved.
–William Jennings Bryan

Discipline is the bridge between
goals and accomplishment.
–Jim Rohn

Do not confuse motion and progress.
A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
–Alfred A. Montapert

Do what you can, where you are,
with what you have.
–Teddy Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the
future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.
–Buddha

Don’t be fooled by the calendar.
There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of
a year while another man gets a
full year’s value out of a week.
–Charles Richards

Don’t be stomping on ants when
you have elephants to feed.
–Peter Turla

Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time
on a ten-cent decision.
–Peter Turla

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of.
–Benjamin Franklin

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
–Gloria Steinem

Quotes About Life

Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
–Pablo Picasso

Earn your leadership every day.
–Michael Jordan

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
–Jim Rohn

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football
is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.
–Dee Dee Myers

Education costs money.
But then so does ignorance.
–Sir Claus Moser

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
–Woody Allen

Either write something worth reading
or do something worth writing.
–Benjamin Franklin

Fear melts when you take action
towards a goal you really want.
–Robert Allen

Great leaders are not defined by the absence
of weakness, but rather by the presence
of clear strengths.
–John Zenger

Everything you’ve ever wanted
is on the other side of fear.
–George Adair

Half our life is spent trying to find something
to do with the time we have rushed through
life trying to save.
–Will Rogers

Every strike brings me closer
to the next home run.
–Babe Ruth

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait
a single moment before starting to
improve the world.
–Anne Frank

He who has great power should use it lightly.
–Seneca

He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
–Aristotle

Happiness is not something readymade.
It comes from your own actions.
–Dalai Lama

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
–Rosa Parks

I start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders,
not more followers.
–Ralph Nader

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
–Vincent van Gogh

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
–Dalai Lama

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
–Maya Angelou

I am looking for a lot of men
who have an infinite capacity to
not know what can’t be done.
–Henry Ford

I didn’t fail the test.
I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
–Benjamin Franklin

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
–Maya Angelou

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
–Zig Ziglar

If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
–Tony Robbins

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
–Zig Ziglar

If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
–Tony Robbins

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and
that voice will be silenced.
–Vincent Van Gogh

If you look at what you have in life,
you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
–Oprah Winfrey

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
–John Quincy Adams

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
–Thomas Jefferson

Live fully. Love openly. Make a difference.
–Brendan Burchard

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the
will that is lacking.
–Sir John Lubbock

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going.
–Brian Tracy

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
–Chinese Proverb

The supreme quality of leadership
is integrity.
–Dwight Eisenhower

Time is money.
–Benjamin Franklin

Time is what we want most,
but what we use worst.
–William Penn

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
–Yoda

Until thought is linked with purpose
there is no intelligent accomplishment.
–James Allen

Until we can manage time,
we can manage nothing else.
–Peter Drucker

Until you value yourself, you will not value
your time. Until you value your time,
you will not do anything with it.
–M. Scott Peck

Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
–Japanese Proverb

There is no such thing as failure.
You either succeed or learn.
–Kevin Kruse

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato

We can no more afford to spend major time
on minor things than we can to spend
minor time on major things.
–Jim Rohn

When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have
a single bit of talent left and could say,
I used everything you gave me.
–Erma Bombeck

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
–Christopher Columbus

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
–Unknown

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
–Beverly Sills

You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
–Jim Rohn

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
–Erica Jong

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
–Lao Tzu

Have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition. They somehow already know
what you truly want to become.
–Steve Jobs

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%.
–Patti Digh

There is no passion to be found playing small.
–Nelson Mandela

Better three hours too soon,
than one minute too late.
–William Shakespeare

You can’t use up creativity.
The more you use, the more you have.
–Maya Angelou

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
–Stephen King

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s
better than no inspiration at all.
–Rita Mae Brown

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
–Polybius

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
–John C. Maxwell

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for
living. Satisfaction is death.
–George Bernard Shaw

As we look ahead into the next century,
leaders will be those who empower others.
–Bill Gates

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do,
the danger is that we shall do nothing.
–Adolphe Monod

Difficulties increase the nearer
we approach the goal.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da
Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
–H. Jackson Brown

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is
indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in
two small jumps.
–David Lloyd George

Education is the mother of leadership.
–Wendell Willkie

If you want your children to turn out well,
spend twice as much time with them,
and half as much money.
–Abigail Van Buren

Effective leadership is not about making
speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
–Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline,
carrying it out.
–Stephen Covey

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
–Will Rogers

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
–Confucius

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that
you trust him.
–Booker T. Washington

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain
to miss the future.
–John F. Kennedy

Gaining time is gaining everything in love,
trade and war.
–John Shebbeare

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to
motivate us. They are essential to really
keep us alive.
–Robert H. Schuller

Goals determine what you’re going to be.
–Julius Erving

He that rises late must trot all day.
–Benjamin Franklin

He who gains time gains everything.
–Benjamin Disraeli

He who knows most grieves most
for wasted time.
–Dante

I am reminded how hollow the label of
leadership sometimes is and how heroic
followership can be.
–Warren Bennis

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
–Florence Nightingale

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that
matters is the everlasting present.
–Somerset Maugham

I have been impressed with the urgency of
doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
–Leonardo da Vinci

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
–Latin Proverb

If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
–John Wooden

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
–Lawrence J. Peter

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.
–Henry David Thoreau

In a day, when you don’t come across any
problems –you can be sure that you are
travelling in a wrong path.
–Swami Vivekananda

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
–Winston Churchill

It is absurd that a man should rule others,
who cannot rule himself.
–Latin Proverb

It is easier to go down a hill than up,
but the view is best from the top.
–Arnold Bennett

It is never too late
to be who you might have been.
–George Eliot

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will
make them successful human beings.
–Ann Landers

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is, what are we busy about?
–Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational Quotes

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life.
Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
–Mae Jemison

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge
of the day.
–Jesse Jackson

What may be done at any time
will be done at no time.
–Scottish Proverb

When I give a minister an order,
I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

Work expands so as to fill the time
available for its completion.
–Cyril Parkinson

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear
in the face. You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

You may delay, but time will not.
–Benjamin Franklin

You must have long–range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short–range failures.
–Charles C. Noble

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
–Les Brown

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
–Jim Rohn

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
–Katharine Hepburn

The best way to succeed
is to double your failure rate.
–Thomas Watson

This to shall pass.
–Proverb

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
–Nelson Mandela

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
–Vince Lombardi

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing
and staring at the water.
–Rabindranath Tagore

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership.
–Dwight Eisenhower

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and
making a case.
–Ken Kesey

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable
leader can demoralize the best of troops.
–John Pershing

A ruler should be slow to punish
and swift to reward.
–Ovid

A straight path never leads anywhere
except to the objective.
–Andre Gide

A wise person does at once,
what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
–Baltasar Gracián

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be
without the strategy.
–Norman Schwarzkopf

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
–Grant Frazier

The most effective way to do it is to do it.
–Amelia Earhart

The most important question to ask is,
what am I becoming?
–Jim Rohn

The time for action is now.
It’s never too late to do something.
–Carl Sandburg

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you
articulate clearly and forcefully on every
occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
–Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
–Beverly Sills

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and
make a brand new ending.
–Attributed to Carl Bard

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately
it kills all its pupils.
–Hector Louis Berlioz

Time lost is never found again.
–Benjamin Franklin

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
–Friedrich Nietzsche

We must believe that we are gifted for
something, and that this thing,
at whatever cost, must be attained.
–Marie Curie

Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.
–Doug Larson

The surest way to be late
is to have plenty of time.
–Leo Kennedy

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness
by the service you render.
–Napoleon Hill

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up.
–Henry Longfellow

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
–Charles Spurgeon

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.
–Mark Cuban

Great leaders are almost always great
simplifiers, who can cut through argument,
debate, and doubt to offer a solution
everybody can understand.
–General Colin Powell

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
–Cicero

He lives long that lives well;
and time misspent is not lived but lost.
–Thomas Fuller

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound
they make as they fly by.
–Douglas Adams

If it weren’t for the last minute,
a lot of things wouldn’t get done.
–Michael S. Traylor

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it
all you’ve got.
–Lee Iacocca

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels
the attraction of earth.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you’re bored with life ––you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things ––you
don’t have enough goals.
–Lou Holtz

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man
to consider what he has done, compared to
what he might have done.
–Samuel Johnson

It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have
come to interact with time, change it.
–Marcia Wieder

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.
Followers think and talk about the problems.
–Brian Tracy

Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.
–John F. Kennedy

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you
have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do
not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
–General Colin Powell

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or
medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
–Samuel Smiles

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
–Tom Peters

Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.
–T.S. Eliot

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self–esteem of their personnel. If people
believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
–Sam Walton

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting
everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
–Sylvia Plath

Some of the world’s greatest feats were
accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
–Doug Larson

Take a rest. A field that has rested
yields a beautiful crop.
–Ovid

Take the first step in faith.
We don’t need to see the whole staircase;
we just need to take the first step.
–Martin Luther King Jr

Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,”
and thou shalt progress.
–Maimonides

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try–angle.
–Author Unknown

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and
self–restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
–Theodore Roosevelt