Quotes about how to live

[AdamSmith]

I used to think this kind of stuff was the purest cornball, but now most of it makes great sense.

As Mark Twain said, more or less, it's amazing how much smarter the world has gotten today than back when I was young!

1. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." -Mother Teresa

2. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

3. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford

4. "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." -Vince Lombardi

5. "Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." -Charles Swindoll

6. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey

7. "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

8. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." -Jimmy Dean

9. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn

10. "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt

11. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." -Les Brown

12. "Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

13. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." -Napoleon Hill

14. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

15. "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

16. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." -Albert Einstein

17. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." -Stephen Covey

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

19. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -Alice Walker

20. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart

21. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle Onassis

22. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson

23. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand

24. "If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh

25. "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." -Farrah Gray

26. "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." -Dalai Lama

27. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

28. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." -Bob Dylan

29. "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo da Vinci

30. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." -Helen Keller

31. "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." -John Lennon

32. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." -George Addair

34. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato

35. "Nothing will work unless you do." -Maya Angelou

36. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

37. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." -Plutarch

38. "Control your own destiny or someone else will." -Jack Welch

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[MsAnn]

Brilliant...

Thank you AS. I've printed this out for future reference.

For Christmas this year, my dear sister shipped me a package via FedEx. Her gifts are usually very high-end and worth a couple or three  Grover Cleveland's, so I opened the package with much anticipation. Inside I found a small silk bag filled with 365 individually printed inspirational Bible quotes with my name inserted into the quote to personalize it. Ok, yes there was that moment of WTF is this, since I was really hoping for a piece of jewelry, I mean, what girl doesn't want diamonds.  Her note said simply."One for each day" Love Sis. It took me a moment, then I decided to actually read one every day. Without sounding overly dramatic, it has been a bit of a life changer. I've slowed my life down, and realized the importance of being grateful.

[Suckrates]

1 hour ago, MsAnn said:

Brilliant...

Thank you AS. I've printed this out for future reference.

For Christmas this year, my dear sister shipped me a package via FedEx. Her gifts are usually very high-end and worth a couple or three  Grover Cleveland's, so I opened the package with much anticipation. Inside I found a small silk bag filled with 365 individually printed inspirational Bible quotes with my name inserted into the quote to personalize it. Ok, yes there was that moment of WTF is this, since I was really hoping for a piece of jewelry, I mean, what girl doesn't want diamonds.  Her note said simply."One for each day" Love Sis. It took me a moment, then I decided to actually read one every day. Without sounding overly dramatic, it has been a bit of a life changer. I've slowed my life down, and realized the importance of being grateful.

 

But I bet one DID NOT say eat 2 lemon loafs each day ?  

[Suckrates]

 

THIS is how Grandma likes to receive her Daily "Scripture"....

 

[Guest Larstrup]

Nice.

31. "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." -John Lennon

[AdamSmith]

My favorites...

20. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart

32. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

...followed probably by Ford and Einstein.

[Guest Larstrup]

13 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

My favorite...

20. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart

...followed probably by Ford and Einstein.

This was my next favorite because it's so relatable. However, I have found in my own life that the decision to act and the actual execution, can sometimes be days, weeks or even months apart. 

[AdamSmith]

9 hours ago, Larstrup said:

This was my next favorite because it's so relatable. However, I have found in my own life that the decision to act and the actual execution, can sometimes be days, weeks or even months apart. 

Ditto. In some cases it's procrastination. But more and more, it's getting ready to act.

I used to sit down at my desk to write an article with no idea what I was going to say. And sit there for hours getting nada done. Nowadays, I take those walks outdoors to Think WTF the thing should say. And only sit down to write once I have figured it out.

Subconsciously I think I took my cue of how to work from how the Childhood's End Overlords' spaceships worked, according to Clarke. Their Star Drive tapped the energies of whatever star it was orbiting for its main accelerative force. Thus, instead of gradually accelerating as our rockets do, it had to reach its top speed while still inside the solar system it was about to leave. So they madly accelerated from standstill to 99.8% of the speed of light in under an hour.

These days, I don't sit down to work until I'm ready to do the same thing.

Much more efficient.

[AdamSmith]

More from Henry Ford...

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.