Quotations on Life

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Henry David Thoreau: Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Emily Dickinson: The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Earl Nightingale: Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

E.E. Cummings: The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

A Zen Saying: Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Ernest L. Woodward: So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.

Booker T. Washington: Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Thomas Jefferson: Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Martin Luther King: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

John F. Kennedy: Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Norman Vincent Peale: The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

Richard M. DeVos: The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Montaigne: The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Abraham Lincoln: The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Zig Ziglar: Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

Unknown Author: People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

Aesop: Please all, and you will please none.

Malcolm S. Forbes: Presence is more than just being there.

Ivy Baker: The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Harold Wilkins: The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

William Barclay: There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Albert Einstein: There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

A. W. Pinero: Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Swedish Proverb: Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Joseph Addison: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Denis Waitley: View life as a continuous learning experience.

Carl Jung: Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

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