Top 464 You Quotes

Here we have the best You Quotes from famous authors such as Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Mario Andretti, Luka Modric, Richard M. Nixon. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

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

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Paul Brown
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

True friends stab you in the front.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Trudeau
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

J P Morgan
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

Pericles
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.

You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Shakuntala Devi
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward
Everything you can imagine is real.

There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.

Aubrey Peeples
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

You are just your intelligence.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.

Ray Kroc
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.

Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven‘t yet met.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Suicide is man‘s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Dwight L Moody
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

Marta
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I don’t see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.

Eddie Guerrero
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’

William Arthur Ward
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Ricardo Montalban
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater 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.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Only you can control your future.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Bernard Meltzer
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it‘ when things are tough.

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Lindsey Shaw
Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.

Future
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E Disney
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.

College is something I’ve always said I wanted to do, but you’re going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I’m already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I’m in my own film college: filming a TV show.

Gaten Matarazzo
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.

Thomas J Watson
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan‘s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.

George Gershwin
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

You can’t change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you’re thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.

Ernesto Bertarelli
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Wherever you go, your memories from the place you grew up in always remain special.

Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she‘s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.

Ashley Bell
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W Buehner
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.

When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Your personality is what makes you sexy.

Mollie King
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Unless you have bad times, you can’t appreciate the good times.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Red Adair
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max de Pree
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

Stan Laurel
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J Meyer
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

You can’t fix stupid.

If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.

Marc Anthony
If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive statemeaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald‘s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A Garfield
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

You are the music while the music lasts.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

Moises Arias
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

Greg Rusedski
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

William Goldman
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Morgan Wootten
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Amelia Earhart
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are!

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

You may delay, but time will not.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Walter Winchell
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc
It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Frank Lane
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Bob Hope
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

Satchel Paige
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Alicia Witt
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Gene Tunney
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Frank A Clark
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

You don’t need really expensive clothes to look cute.

Christy Romano
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H Glasow
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Glenn Turner
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Art is anything you can get away with.

I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.