Inspiring Sayings About Life
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Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
M. Kathleen Casey
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Confucius
"Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
"Men's natures are alike. It is their habits that carry them far apart."
"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it."
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Annie Dillard
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
"Try not to become a person of success but a person of value."
"Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them."
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world belongs to the energetic."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness."
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. "
Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Abraham Lincoln
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds to be."
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall."
Marilyn Monroe
"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
"You never know what life is like, until you have lived it."
"It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for what your not."
Dolly Parton
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more and become more, then you are an excellent leader."
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
Jim Rohn
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
"Success is what you attract by being the person you become."
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
"When you fail to make a contribution, you begin to die."
"Do at least one thing every day that scares you."
Anne Wilson Schaef
"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."
Henry David Thoreau
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Leo Tolstoy
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Story Waters
"It is your very imperfections that make you the ideal teacher of the lesons you are learning."
Mae West
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
