Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tryon Edwards

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Wilt Chamberlain

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Lucy Larcom

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

Louisa May Alcott

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

James Martineau

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

Garrett Hedlund

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Joaquin Miller

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

Mahatma Gandhi

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Helen Mirren

It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

Henry Ward Beecher

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Johannes Brahms

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Haruki Murakami

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Jim Rohn

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

Jim Rohn

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Anthony Trollope

I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world

Brendon Burchard

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Dale Carnegie

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.

Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Aleister Crowley

The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

Albert Einstein

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

E. M. Forster

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Don Shula

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.