Life Quotes

"Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are."
Author Unknown

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try"
Beverly Sills

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

"Our greatest glory is not failing, but in rising every time we fail."
Confucius

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
Henry Van Dyke

"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."
Henry Van Dyke

"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has-been was once an are."
Milton Berle

"Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball."
Mitzi Chandler

"Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
Sharon Salzberg

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It;s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and the scorching sun."
Napoleon Hill

" It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it."
Lena Horne

"Keep you face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
Helen Keller

"The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time."
Abraham Lincoln

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step foward your always in the same place."
Nora Roberts

"A good hand and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
Nelson Mandela

"There are two ways of exerting ones strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
Booker T. Washington

"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."
John Maxwell

"In this life we cannot always do great things, but we can do small things with great love."
Mother Teresa

"A person that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight Eisenhower

" The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
Henry Van Dyke

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
Robert H. Goddard

"Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give"
Sir Winston Churchill

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret"
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes."
Randy K. Milholland

"Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count."
Anonymous

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
The Dalai Lama

"Count your age by friends, not years
Count your life by smiles, not tears"
Unknown

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
John Maxwell

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Albert Einstein