Quotes on Life

A truth told with bad intent is better than all the lies you can invent.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Speak when you're angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Never allow someone to be your priority while being their option.

Never say sorry for what you meant to do.

Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

The truth is more important than the facts.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter.

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

Learn from life:

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who would make it so.

Encourage achievement by letting people know you think they're up to it.Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

I loathe the expression 'what makes him tick' . . . a person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and other people: it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

The ability to accept responsibility s the measure of the man.

It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone.

If you want to do something, do it!

Why always, 'not yet?' do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Happiness is a swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Sometimes the best thing is just to go with the flow.

Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy if not less of it ? doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -- but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself.

We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the night saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.

Trust is what you put in someone's hands. Faith is what you hold on to.

Never do anything else while speaking on the telephone. The people listening on the other end will know that your attention is elsewhere.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

when god measures a man, he puts the tape around his heart instead of his head.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

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

Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something.

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

When the world says, 'give up,' / hope whispers, 'try it one more time.

If I could give you one thing I would wish for you, the ability to see yourself as others see you, then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Take a look at what you have. Think of all you did to get it. Remember it only takes one second to lose.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Feelings are like glass, they can be covered up, changed and even destroyed, but like glass feelings are better when they are made clear.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but if you sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Sometimes someone says something really small and it fits right into this empty place in your heart.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Showing people that you sincerely care about them can often be as easy as listening to them.

What we want most is beyond our understanding of it.

Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.

Don't wish upon a star, reach for one.

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughter would make me cry.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

When you were born, the world was smiling and you were crying. Live your life so that when you die, the world is crying and you are smiling.

When one door closes, another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Actions speak louder than words.

Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.

Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.

Cherokee Wisdom

An old Cherokee teaching his grandson about life...

"A fight is going on inside of me", he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves, One is Evil, he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is good - he is joy, love, peace, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. The same fight is going on inside of you, and inside of every other person too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute then asked "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed".

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result

Consider the postage stamp, it's usefulness consists of it's ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. - Josh Billings

Happiness is often the result of being to busy to be miserable.

I'm sorry to say that I never wrote the name of the people who originally spoke these words. If you know the "owner" of any of these, please let me know so that I can give them credit.

Women may be able to fake orgasms but a man can fake a whole relationship.

A man who won't die for something isnt fit to live

Women may be able to fake orgasms but a man can fake a whole relationship.