Life Quotes - Page 2

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.