Life Quotes and Sayings
Reading, thinking about and acting upon inspiring life quotes and sayings is a habit everyone should start. What you think about will profoundly affect your life. If you agree with me then you should give serious consideration to the thoughts you allow into your mind. What you put in will sooner or later come out, either in word, attitude or deed. After looking over a couple hundred life quotes and sayings, one of my favorites would be: "Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap your character; sow your character and you reap your destiny." The beauty of it is that you get to choose the thought that is planted. You are in control. You are not at the mercy of your environment. You create the environment of your mind that you desire. For good..or bad. Inspiring or discouraging. Half the fun of writing this page was reading hundreds of quotes and choosing the ones that are sure to give you that moment of inspiration. Read on and enjoy!
Motivational Life Quotes and Sayings Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances - James Allen
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have.But there is a difference between a "must" and "want." - Jim Rohn
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome. - William James
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith
What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next. - Norman Vincent Peale
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. - Marva Collins
Do, or do not. There is no 'try - Yoda
Never give up, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill
Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant
Motivation alone is not enough.If you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. - Jim Rohn
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we did all we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves - Thomas Edison
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov
You will find powerful life quotes and sayings stay with you. Think on them long enough and that start shaping the way you look at life. I know they do for me. Here's a final one (for this page) I want to leave you with... “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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