Best 350 Life Changing Motivational Quotes

Never accept limitations. – JAKE BYRNE, ATHLETE.

I’m leaping, I’m learning to fly. – NIHAR SHARMA.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. – HORACE, POET.

Happiness is only real when shared. – JON KRAKAUER.

What we play is life. – LOUIS ARMSTRONG, A MUSICIAN.

To understand all is to forgive all. – EVELYN WAUGH.

Friendship is the best kind of ship. – JENNIFER LANE.

Home is everything you can walk to. – JERRY SPINELLI.

Old age is a wonderful disguise. – KATHERINE APPLEGATE.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered. – VICTOR ROBERT LEE.

There is a time for words and a time for sleep. – HOMER.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation. – SCOTT BELSKY.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – OSCAR WILDE.

I have to live if I want to be remembered. – SUZANNE YOUNG.

Patience is a conquering virtue. – GEOFFREY CHAUCER, A POET.

Imagination is the true magic carpet. – NORMAN VINCENT PEALE.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – HARUKI MURAKAMI.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.  – IAN FLEMING.

To have more, you must genuinely thank more. – MADDY MALHOTRA.

May the Force be with you. – STAR WARS, EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. – FRAN LEBOWITZ.

The past is always tense, and the future perfect. – ZADIE SMITH.

The soul is healed by being with children. – FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY.

If love is blind, love can’t hit the mark. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

If life is a bowl of cherries, what’s inside of it? – JOSH STERN.

some years ask questions, and years answer. – ZORA NEALE HURSTON.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – MILTON BERLE, ACTOR.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – HENRY JAMES.

It’s never over till it’s really over in your mind. – SANDHYA JANE.

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it. – JENNIFER E. SMITH.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. – EDGAR ALLAN POE.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. – ELBERT HUBBARD.

Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not. – ELON MUSK, INVENTOR.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. – GAIL TSUKIYAMA.

The universe doesn’t allow perfection. – STEPHEN HAWKING, A PHYSICIST.

It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural. – TRUMAN CAPOTE.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. – JENNIFER DONNELLY.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be. – MURIEL BARBERY.

A touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – JOHN MUIR, A NATURALIST.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. – BABE RUTH, AN ATHLETE.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. – MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM.

After all, there are no mistakes in life, only lessons.- LYNDA BRENHAM.

Let us think only of the good days that are to come. – AGATHA CHRISTIE.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of. – MARKUS ZUSAK.

Motivation gets you going; inspiration keeps you going. – TODD STOCKER.

Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. – JUDY BLUME.

Through the pain, I’ve learned to comfort suffering men. – VIRGIL, POET.

What good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness? – JOHN STEINBECK.

Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk. – MICHELLE HORST.

I’ve never met a problem a more pop cupcake couldn’t fix. – SARAH OCKLER.

When an enemy praises an enemy, the smart man listens. – BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

Any fool can make a role and any fool will mind it. – HENRY DAVID THOREAU.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined ones. – TONI MORRISON.

Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it. – L. M. MONTGOMERY.

A kiss is a secret that takes the lips for the ear. – EDMOND ROSTAND, POET.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. – ROALD DAHL.

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real. – NED VIZZINI.

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. – EMMA DONOGHUE.

The world’s a puzzle; no need to make sense of it. – SOCRATES, PHILOSOPHER .

Well-behaved women seldom make history. – LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH, HISTORIAN.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. – JOHN LE CARRÉ.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – JEWISH PROVERB.

It does not take many words, to tell the truth. – SITTING BULL, LAKOTA CHIEF.

The water doesn’t know how old you are. – DARA TORRES, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. – DAVID NICHOLLS.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – JACK KEROUAC.

I have learned that being with those I like is enough. – WALT WHITMAN, A POET.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however, hidden. – CORMAC MCCARTHY.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – THEODORE ROOSEVELT, U.S. PRESIDENT.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. – RASHI, BIBLE SCHOLAR.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.- ANONYMOUS.

Seek your answers in life, and not what others dictate to you. – JEMINA AKHTAR.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of education. – JOHN WOODEN, COACH.

Facing your fears robs them of their power. – MARK BURNETT, TELEVISION PRODUCER.

If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.- GROUCHO MARX, COMEDIAN.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. – TONI CADE BAMBARA, AND ACTIVIST.

You are the sky. Everything else it’s just the weather. – PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST.

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation. – MALCOLM GLADWELL.

You can’t fix things with a hug, but you can’t make them any worse.- DEAN KOONTZ.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. – CHARLES BUKOWSKI, POET.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart, and watch what happens. – TONY DELISO.

If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? – JOSÉ SARAMAGO.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – JACK LONDON.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do. – ANONYMOUS.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. – MARIE CURIE, A CHEMIST.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be the truth. – TIMOTHY B. TYSON.

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled. – THE QURAN.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. – G. K. CHESTERTON.

And there’s no such thing as too much backup. – TERRY PRATCHETT AND STEPHEN BAXTER, S.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.- ANONYMOUS.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. – MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. – JANET EVANOVICH.

A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world. – MAT JOHNSON.

Some quick advice for success in life: Don’t be afraid, be amazing.- DR. CUTHBERT SOUP.

Never be bored, and you will never be bored. – ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, DIPLOMAT AND ACTIVIST.

A picnic is more than eating a meal; it is a pleasurable state of mind. – DEEDEE STOVEL.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. – BARBARA KINGSOLVER.

It’s high time you were shown that you don’t know all there is to be known.  – DR. SEUSS.

The heart of a person only beats when it’s surrounded by blood, by family. – ERICA GOROS.

There is darkness in life and there are lights. You are one of the lights. – BRAM STOKER.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.- ALBERT EINSTEIN, A PHYSICIST.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. – HELEN KELLER, AN ACTIVIST.

The best time to plant a tree was years ago. The next best time is now. – CHINESE PROVERB.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end. – HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL, PHILOSOPHER.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – INE OF HIPPO, SAINT.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe— it only matters what you do. – ROBERT FULGHUM.

True love is like little roses, sweet, and fragrant in small doses. – ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES.

Poetry is a mirror that makes beautiful that which is stated. – PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, POET.

Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak. – PAUL COLLINS.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. – MICHAEL ENDE.

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CHEF.

It is bitter to be hard for what you are than to be loved for what you aren’t. – ANDRÉ GIDE.

It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. – GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. – KRISTIN HANNAH.

Every single day I’ll keep you with me, no matter how far from me you are.  – S. C. STEPHENS.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring . . . – ALICE WALKER.

Life throws challenges; every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer – AMIT RAY.

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. – AMBROSE BIERCE, JOURNALIST.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on. – BOB DYLAN, A MUSICIAN.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. – MALALA YOUSAFZAI, ACTIVIST.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. – NICOLE SOBON.

You might be poor, and your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. – FRANK MCCOURT.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, and I have always been full of questions. – HERMANN HESSE.

And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. – THE BIBLE.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam. – CAMERON CONAWAY, MMA FIGHTER.

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. – ALPHONSE KARR.

The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. – JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, POET.

I might have been given a bad beak, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for. – LOU GEHRIG, AN ATHLETE.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. – PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY, COMPOSER.

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.- JOHN GUARE, PLAYWRIGHT.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. – WILLIAM HAZLITT, ESSAYIST.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. – LEO TOLSTOY.

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. – DONNA QUESADA.

Parenthood . . . It’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last. – PETER KRAUSE, ACTOR.

The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break a pattern. – CHIP HEATH AND DAN HEATH, S.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – S. G. TALLENTYRE.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. – BEATRIX POTTER.

A man who dares to waste one hour has not discovered the value of life. – CHARLES DARWIN, A NATURALIST.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. – STEVIE WONDER, A MUSICIAN.

No group picture is going to have the power of an individual portrait. – ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, PHOTOGRAPHER.

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. – JACK KORNFIELD,  .

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. – PETER S. BEAGLE.

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves. – JACK R. ROSE.

How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.  -UMBERTO ECO.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. – SAMUEL JOHNSON.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. – CHRISTOPHER REEVE, ACTOR.

They always say that time changes things, but you have to change them yourself. – ANDY WARHOL, AN ARTIST.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit. – DAVID ARCHULETA, VOCALIST.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTË.

Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. – PITTACUS LORE.

Love is a good thing on a bad day when the last thing you want is to be cheered up. – CHAD SUGG, MUSICIAN.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. – JOANNE HARRIS.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. – RICHARD BACH.

If you run nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty. Who cares? – TINA FEY, COMEDIAN.

As coal is pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. – SUZANNE COLLINS.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – CHARLES DICKENS.

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I’d still do it—for fun and for free. – SUSAN E. ISAACS.

If there is at least one person you’ve helped in life, then your life has been worthwhile. – L. SYDNEY ABEL.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. The longest way around is the shortest way home. – JAMES JOYCE.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. – STEVE JOBS, CO-FOUNDER OF APPLE INC.

Passover is a living picture of how salvation is properly obtained, as we shall see. – ZOLA LEVITT, MINISTER.

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. – ANONYMOUS.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – DOUGLAS ADAMS.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. – MARY SHELLEY.

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. – DAN PEARCE.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride. – KAREN HORNEY, PSYCHOANALYST.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. – F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. – PABLO PICASSO, A PAINTER.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. – VINCE LOMBARDI, AN ATHLETE.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. – BRYANT MCGILL AND JENNI YOUNG.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. – GUSTAVE FLAUBERT.

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. – BANANA YOSHIMOTO.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We must walk the path. – GAUTAMA BUDDHA, BUDDHIST SAGE.

Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious. – UTE CARBONE.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done. – BEOWULF.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I do. And the next morning, when I woke up, I am born. – MAHATMA GANDHI, ACTIVIST.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult. – QUEEN ELIZABETH II.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. – THOMAS JEFFERSON, U.S. PRESIDENT.

The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. – L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP AND FLETCHER PRATT, S.

If I die tomorrow, next year, or whenever it might be, I’ll know I’ve had a great life. – MAGIC JOHNSON, AN ATHLETE.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. – SHERYL SANDBERG, TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE.

If you don’t know what you’re willing to die for, then you don’t know what you’re living for. – NOAH WEINBERG, RABBI.

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge. – BANANI RAY AND AMIT RAY, S.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. – KELLI JAE BAELI.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. – AMY TAN.

Be aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. – VINCENT VAN GOGH, A PAINTER.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. – ABRAHAM VERGHESE, PHYSICIAN.

Through Compassion and Car, we are compelled to run acts of kindness and demonstrations of love. – JEAN HAMILTON-FORD.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering “it will be happier . . .” – ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, POET.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.- DALAI LAMA, BUDDHIST MONK.

While no one can go back and make a band new start, anyone can start new and make a new ending. – CHICO XAVIER, MEDIUM.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. – BRENÉ BROWN.

May you be filled with loving-kindness. May you be well. May you be peaceful and at ease. May you be happy. – ANONYMOUS.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – J. K. ROWLING.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places. – MITCH ALBOM.

I want all of us to move into the future with hope and with the spirit of oneness and unity. – JOYCE BANDA, A POLITICIAN.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion. – ANNE FRANK, DIARIST.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. – GLORIA STEINEM, A FEMINIST.

Chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for a surprise is the best we can do. – KENNETH OPPEL.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the or in it. – TONY HILLERMAN.

I’ve come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep. – KIRSTEN HUBBARD.

Independence is my happiness, the world is my country, and my religion is to do good. – THOMAS PAYNE, A POLITICAL ACTIVIST.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem when at the same time it’s so slow and sweet and everlasting. – GRAHAM SWIFT.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return. – DEEPAK CHOPRA.

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you. – ANN SHAYNE.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness. – LAUREN OLIVER.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.  -MARTIN LUTHER, A THEOLOGIAN.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. – WASHINGTON IRVING.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – KAHLIL GIBRAN.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to. – JIM HENSON, PUPPETEER.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH.

Whining is not only graceless but can be dangerous. It can alert a but that a victim is in the neighbourhood. – MAYA ANGELOU.

Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, U.S. PRESIDENT.

Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. – ALICE HOFFMAN.

There is no dishonour in losing the race. There is only dishonour in not racing because you are afraid to lose. – GARTH STEIN.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. – DR. STEVE MARABOLI, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A. A. MILNE.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of dop? – DAVID MITCHELL.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need to look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. – JULIA CHILD, CHEF.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. – JOE ABERCROMBIE.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. – YANN MARTEL.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. – DESMOND TUTU, SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND RETIRED ANGLICAN BISHOP.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.- MOTHER TERESA, A CATHOLIC MISSIONARY.

No matter how talented you are, if you don’t persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small. – CAMILLA DORAND.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside. – JULIE ANDREWS, ACTOR.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. – THURGOOD MARSHALL, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but . . . they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.  – ALEX ROGERS.

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees are a smiling and calm face. – MANOJ ARORA.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms but to add color to my sunset sky. – RABINDRANATH TAGORE.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t be simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. – J. M. BARRIE.

Roam abroad in the world and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. – SAADI, POET.

In the sky, there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion. – ISHMAEL BEAH.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. – GORDON PARKS, PHOTOGRAPHER.

Mediocrity is always in a rush, but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. – – AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR.

A Nation shouldn’t be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but by its lowest ones. – NELSON MANDELA, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Concentrate all your thoughts on the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus. – ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, INVENTOR.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. – WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER.

It’s best to have your tools with you. If you don’t, you’re apt to find something you didn’t expect and get discouraged. – STEPHEN KING.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. – RICHARD PAUL EVANS.

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. – MAURICE CHEVALIER, ACTOR.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, sea foam, flower, or winged air. – THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, EDITOR.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend, and a good library. – APHRA BEHN, POET.

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come. – ANONYMOUS.

You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. – ANN BRASHARES.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. – VIRGINIA WOOLF.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces.- JUDITH VIORST.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe. – OPRAH WINFREY, A MEDIA PERSONALITY.

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water; flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. – BRIAN JACQUES.

Please don’t be offended if I preach to you for a while, Tears are out of place in eyes that were meant to smile. – BUD DESYLVA, SONGWRITER.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, need for doing more of what you wanted to do . – KINGSLEY AMIS.

It’s one thing knowing you have people cheering you on, and yet another to know they have walked in your footstep. – CHRISTINE MAGNUS MOORE.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. – ALEXANDRE DUMAS.

Life is no different from the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. – SUZY KASSEM.

Music is great unto. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.- SARAH DESSEN.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. . .. You grab it and honor it and use it because momentum is a rare gift. – JUSTINA CHEN.

Don’t walk in front of me . . . I may not follow Don’t walk behind me . . . I may not lead Walk beside me . . . just be my friend.- ANONYMOUS.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbors. – TIMOTHY KELLER, PASTOR.

Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.- CLIVE BARKER.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. – EMILY DICKINSON, A POET.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who had guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – HARPER LEE.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now. – CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI.

There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart’s desires, and stay on course. – ELIZABETH PARKER.

Things happen, and nothing is for sure but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is. – A. J. DARKHOLME.

Books are the ultimate Dumpers: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.- JOHN GREEN.

If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real. – ANTHONY ROBBINS, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER.

What do you do with all your pennies? I give them away. It’s good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you. – FANNIE FLAGG, ACTOR.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I’m not even sure is important to me. – LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to ram the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live. – HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – WILLIAM BLAKE, A POET.

Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward. – BRANDON SANDERSON.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. – JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, A NATURALIST.

When you get older, you know that life’s mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed. – LINDA GRAY.

And I will never again understate the power of anticipation. There is no better boot in the present than an invitation into the future. – CAROLINE KEPNES.

Remember this, where there is life there is hope. You’re alive. Embrace this, because you can do anything while there is breath in your body. – LOLA JAYE.

You are the most of your destiny. You can influence, direct, and control your environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. – NAPOLEON HILL.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. – FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, U.S. PRESIDENT.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you haven’t; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – EPICURUS, PHILOSOPHER.

Forbearance in the face of fate, and beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. – THOMAS MANN.

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was with all the fighting? – STEPHANIE LENNOX.

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? – ELIZABETH SCOTT.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable. – SOMALY MAM, ADVOCATE.

There is a certain enthusiasm for liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. – ALEXANDER HAMILTON, U.S. FOUNDING FATHER.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – MADELEINE L’ENGLE.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight. – M.F.K. FISHER, FOOD WRITER.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot dive out of hate: only love can do that. – MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST.

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, and a sense of humor are all things that make a woman attractive. – JESSICA ORTNER.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. – GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, SCIENTIST.

There are so many ways to be safe in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or someone else. – VERONICA ROTH.

Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that for a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. – WYCLEF JEAN, A MUSICIAN.

When someone stole another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? – BASIL OF CAESAREA, SAINT.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me. – JAACHYNMA N. E. AGU.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has it. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. – SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence. – FRIDA KAHLO, AN ARTIST.

The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling a shot, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – MICHELANGELO, ARTIST.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but drink the whole bottle with others.- PAULO COELHO.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. – ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY.

It’s special, grandparents and grandchildren. . .. Gon is the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the moral relationship. The way to love is free. – KATE MORTON.

Just as when we come into the world when we do wearer afraid of unknown things. But fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. – ISABEL ALLENDE.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so, it is with you. . .. We are in charge of our attitudes. – CHARLES R. SWINDOLL, PASTOR.

Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. – KALIDASA, POET.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – VICTOR HUGO.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. – MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.” – JESSICA STERN.

Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, has contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here. – WILLIE NELSON, A MUSICIAN.

Never let the future disturb you. You will get it, if you haven’t, with the same weapons of the reason that today arm you against the present. – MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR.

The clouds above us join and separate; the courtyard breeze leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating? – LU YU, THE SAGE OF TEA.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. – ARTHUR ASHE, A TENNIS PLAYER; AND ARNOLD RAMPERSAD.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world. – BERTICE BERRY, SOCIOLOGIST.

Fall has always been my favourite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. – LAUREN DESTEFANO.

Remember the hours after September when we came together as one. . .. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. – JOHN KERRY, U.S. SENATOR.

To wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one’s learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance or a Groundhog Day.- CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my abhorrence. – FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A SOCIAL ACTIVIST.

That glimmer of light, surrounded by so many shadows, seemed to say without words: Evil has not yet taken complete dominion. A spark of hope is still left. – ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. – RAQUEL CEPEDA, JOURNALIST.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you. – OVID, POET.

We have to recognize that they can’t be relationships unless there is commitment unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, and persistence. – BELL HOOKS AND CORNEL WEST.

Life isn’t a merry-go-round, it’s a roller coaster. Life won’t always be smooth, and it may not always be pretty, but it will be an adventure— one not to be missed. – ROBERT A. GLOVER.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept affinity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. – SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, FEMINIST THEORIST.

No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: “The persistent drip wears through the stone.” – KINTETSU TAKAMORI.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – LEONARDO DA VINCI, A POLYMATH.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I’ll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that is for me to define myself. – WILMA MANKILLER, CHEROKEE CHIEF.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS.

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He works with his hands and his head and is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. – FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and the love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time. – LAURA INGALLS WILDER.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant. – FERNANDO PESSOA AS ALBERTO CAEIRO, POET.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that criticism but don’t give it more attention than it deserves. MICHAEL IAN BLACK, COMEDIAN Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. TOLKIEN.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right-side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth to position ourselves for the turn. –RANDY ALCORN.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No, one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are. – AMY POEHLER, COMEDIAN.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering—because you can’t take it all in at once. – AUDREY HEPBURN, ACTOR.

We are not simply in the universe; we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun. – NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, ASTROPHYSICIST.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.  –JOHN LUBBOCK, SCIENTIST.

You come into this world alone and die alone, but there’s y long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it’s not fun, they’ll be with you, too. – JULIE KLAM.

Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your happiness, it’s still okay to feel responsible for someone else’s. – MICHAEL J. FOX, ACTOR.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is, to be honest, and just ourselves and to exact it from others. – GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. PRESIDENT.

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, and no acts of random kindness. – T. C. BOYLE.

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change. – SHONDA RHIMES, SCREENWRITER.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for our children (and for each other) is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as impotent as our answers. – FRED ROGERS, FROM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD.

I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe. – QUEEN LATIFAH, A PERFORMER.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their flames who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. – DAN LIPINSKI, CONGRESSMAN.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. – ELIZABETH GILBERT.

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. This especially applies to what we used to call bad things. . .. The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. – JAMES REDFIELD.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. – NORA EPHRON.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up, I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. . . To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices—today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. – KEVYN AUCOIN, MAKEUP ARTIST.

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands . . . searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living . . . for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. – HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, U.S. SENATOR.

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragrant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden color of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.  – JENNY COLGAN.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source, and the destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it, we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. – WENDELL BERRY.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. – RANDY PAUSCH, COMPUTER SCIENTIST.

That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books, and football in the air. . .. Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer. – WALLACE STEGNER.

Life is indeed colorful. We can feel in the pink one day, with our bank balances comfortably in the black, and the grass seemingly no greener on the other side of the fence. Then out of the blue, something tiresome happens that makes us see red, turn ashen white, and even purple with rage. Maybe controlling our varying emotions is just “color management” by another name. – ALEX MORRITT.