Perseverance / Persistence Quotes

1. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant

2. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. – Aesop

3. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling. – Lucretius

4. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

5. In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins. - Japanese proverb

6. Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. - Stonsifer

7. It matters not if you try and fail, and try and fail again. It matters if you try and fail, and fail to try again. – Unknown

8. I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of the people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by the heroism of those who are willing to struggle to make one small difference after another. - Ellen Goodman

9. You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. - German proverb

10. Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! - Joseph Smith, D&C 128:22

11. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

12. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through perseverance. – H. Jackson Brown

13. In the end the great truth will have been learned, that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, or rather that the effort is the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. - Benjamin Cardozo

14. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

15. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth

16. The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - W. J. Davison

17. Don't you quit, You keep walking...You keep trying... There is help and happiness ahead! Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until Heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. - Jeffrey R. Holland

18. The best way out of a problem is through it. - Unknown

19. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve

20. Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never, in anything great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Sir Winston Churchill

21. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. - Harrison Ford

22. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill

23. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

24. Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliot

25. Success in life depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. Men get tired and give up. - J.R. Miller

26. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance. - Lee J. Iacocca

27. He conquers who endures. - Persius

28. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

29. The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit. - J.R. Todd

30. Triumph
If you can sing,
When there is no song in your heart;
If you can keep on being loving, lovable, and lovely,
When those who should be loving you are blind;
If you can hold a lifted brow,
Despite the weights your shoulders cannot beat–
There is benediction there
For you to share.

If you can carry on dry-eyed
While your heart is drowning
In a deluge of tears;
If you can keep on going,
When the pain in you is just too great,
And your soul is shaken with hopeless anguish,
And your suffering, ache-filled body wants to slump;
If you can keep on going–
And keep on going…

When nerves and blood and muscle scream and sob
With the injustice and unholy ways
Of those who should be warm and just, but can’t be,
Because the abysmal holds for them more lure
Than the celestial–
Why, God?

But, if you can tilt your cheeks, sunward,
Keeping your eyes filled with spiritual light and message,
And coax a skip of childlike rhythm
Into your lagging walk–
And lift your best foot forward,
As though you had no care–
There is benediction there
For you to share.

- Virginia Stillman

31. Always a River to Cross
There is always a river to cross;
Always an effort to make
If there’s anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take.
Yonder’s the fruit we crave,
Yonder the charming scene;
But deep and wide, with a troubled tide,
Is the river that lies between.

For the treasures of precious worth
We must patiently dig and dive;
For the places we long to fill
We must push and struggle and strive.
And always and everywhere
We’ll find, on our onward course,
Thorns for the feet and trials to meet
And a difficult river to cross.

For the rougher the way that we take,
The stouter the heart and the nerve;
The stones in our path we break,
Nor e’er from our impulse swerve.
For the glory we hope to win
Our labors we count no loss;
Tis folly to pause and murmur because
Of the river we have to cross.

So, ready to do and to dare,
Should we in our places stand,
Fulfilling the Master’s will,
Fulfilling the soul’s demand;
For though as the mountain high
The billows may war and toss,
They’ll not overwhelm if the Lord’s at the helm
When the difficult river we cross.

- unknown

32. However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. - Muriel Rukeyser

33. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

34. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. - Julie Andrews

35. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. - Marden

36. You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. - Andrew Jackson

37. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - HW Beecher

38. Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. - Joseph E. Cossman

39. Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

40. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

41. Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch. - Unknown

42. The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

43. The distance doesn't matter, only the first step is difficult. - Madame Marquise du Deffand

44. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb

45. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. - J.G. Holland

46. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

47. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill

48. Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston

49. Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. - Brian Klemmer

50. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. - Helen Keller

51. Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. - Napoleon Hill

52. There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined person. People know that when he or she undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for their rule is to accomplish whatever they set out to do. - Orison Swett Marden

53. Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. - Mark Victor Hansen

54. It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light. - James Arthur Ray

55. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles Kettering

56. Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of 'good', because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky. - Seth Godin

57. As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. - Denis Waitley

58. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

59. As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. - Denis Waitley

60. When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. - Norman Lear

61. Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. - William Makepeace Thackeray

62. By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist. - Earl Nightingale

See also Endurance Quotes

Perception Quotes

1. As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. - Ursula K. LeGuin

2. Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. - Alan Moore

3. Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. - Unknown

4. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is – infinite. - William Blake

5. Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro

6. What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. - C.S. Lewis

7. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies

8. All that glitters is not gold, and all that is sticky is not tar. - Lithuanian Proverb

9. Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. - Hans Margolius

10. To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. - Henri Bergson

11. One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one’s perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them. - Tom Robbins

12. All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. - Leonardo Da Vinci

13. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. -Lao-tzu

14. Every exit is an entry somewhere. - Tom Stoppard

15. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. (On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux) - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

16. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

17. It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Patience Quotes

1. Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott

3. Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

4. Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. - William Penn

5. Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

7. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Plautus

8. If you want the hen to lay, you have to endure the cackle. – Unknown

9. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. - Michel de Montaigne

10. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. - St. Francis de Sales

11. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas Kempis

12. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. - J. G. Hubbard

13. Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. Patience - in time the grass becomes milk. – Unknown

15. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. - Georges de Buffon

16. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Augustine

17. Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter. -Aristotle

18. Patience is the art of hoping. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

19. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

20. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult thing easily. - Johann Freidrich von Schiller

21. No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience. - Jean de la Bruyere

22. Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. - Sadi

23. It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. - Horace Bushnell

24. There’s no music in rest, but there’s the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. - John Ruskin

25. On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. - John Ruskin

26. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb

27. Patience and time do more than strength or passion. - Jean de la Fontaine

28. Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal. - Horace

29. If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won’t be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold. - Unknown

30. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we shall soon see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison

31. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

32. The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy

33. All things will come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

34. Your three best doctors are faith, time and patience. - Unknown

35. The secret of patience: to do something else in the meantime. - Unknown

36. Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius. - Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

Opportunity Quotes

1. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

2. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

3. The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. - Garth Henrichs

4. Winners don’t wait for chances, they take them. – Unknown

5. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. – Demosthenes

6. A wise man makes more opportunity than he finds. - Francis Bacon

7. To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is in our reach, is the great art of life. - Samuel Johnson

8. When opportunity knocks, you'd better have your bags packed. - Ancient proverb

9. Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. - Colton

10. Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. - Lord Stanley

11. When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

12. A man must make his opportunity as oft as he finds it. - Francis Bacon

13. The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

14. The door of opportunity is always knocking, open it. - Unknown

15. The Land of Opportunity is an attitude. - BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt

16. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

17. The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. - Unknown

18. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

20. 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. - Alexander Graham Bell

21. There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. - Douglas MacArthur

22. Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

23. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

24. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter. - B. C. Forbes

25. Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

26. Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. - William Feather

27. Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. - Frank Tyger

28. If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! - Jonathan Winters

29. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Unknown

30. You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf

31. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

32. We do not need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. - Basil S. Walsh

33. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

34. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak people wait for opportunities; strong people make them. - Orison Swett Marden

35. What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life. - Brian Tracy

36. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. - Orison Swett Marden

37. Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person. - Reid Hoffman

38. Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden

39. Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in. - Orison Swett Marden

40. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter. - B.C. Forbes

41. Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late. - Rita Coolidge

42. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

43. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

44. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

45. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. - Janet Erskine Stuart

46. When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you. - Napoleon Hill

Open Mind Quotes

1. The mind is like a parachute; it works better when it is open. - Unknown

2. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. - Chinese proverb

3. Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Obstacles Quotes

1. Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. - Jeffrey Gitomer

2. Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. - Orison Swett Marden

3. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. - Orison Swett Marden

4. Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. - Barbara Sher

5. To fight fear, act. To increase fear…wait, put off, postpone. - David J. Schwartz

6. We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. - Maxwell Maltz

7. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. - Helen Keller

8. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. - Zig Ziglar

9. Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they come to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W. Clement Stone

10. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Jean Baptiste Moliere

11. When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. - Orison Swett Marden

12. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

13. You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. - Les Brown

14. When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. - Denis Waitley

15. It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved. - Samuel Smiles

16. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Hannah More

17. Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. - Og Mandino

18. Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. - Robert H. Schuller

19. The obstacle is the path. - Zen Saying

20. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

21. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. - Thomas Paine

22. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Bette Howland

23. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

24. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Wayne Dyer

25. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Swett Marden

26. We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz

27. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. - Christian D. Larson

28. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

29. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

30. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. - Helen Keller

31. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash

32. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Bette Howland

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Obedience Quotes

Only as we learn truth and obey it do we find freedom and progress.

Obedience to the laws of health frees us from distress and disease and gives us vigor and comfort of body.

Obedience to the laws of physics frees us from cold, darkenss and inability and gives us heat, light and power.

Obedience to the laws of learning frees us from ignorance and superstition and gives us knowledge and wisdom.

Obedience to the laws of society would free us from strife and contention and give us Peace and harmonious living.

Obedience to the laws of the gospel would free us from the grasp of the evil one and give us salvation and exaltation.

Obedience to the laws of God would free us from all opposing powers and give us joy inexpressible and eternal. - E.L.M.

Nature Quotes

1. In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle

2. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayward sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

4. Nature is the living, visible garment of God. - Goethe

5. A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. - Walt Whitman

6. I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. - Alan Hovhaness

7. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran

8. I'll tell you how the sun rose one ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson

9. Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you." – Max Lucado

10. The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator. - Louis Pasteur

11. Nature is the art of God. - Dante Alighieri

12. God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on the trees and flowers and clouds and stars. - Martin Luther

13. The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

14. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa

15. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse

16. The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. - Chanakya

17. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke

18. Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. - Albert Schweitzer

New Years Quotes

1. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

2. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

3. Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. - Bill Vaughn

4. New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

5. Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. - Henry Ward Beecher

6. The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton

7. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. - Michael Altshuler

8. People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. - Unknown

9. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. - John Burroughs

10. Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

11. Maybe this year…walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but potential. - Ellen Goodman

12. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

13. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. - T.S. Eliot

14. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. - Joey Adams

15. The greatest goal you can set this upcoming year is to make peace with your life, no matter your circumstances. - Unknown

16. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mothers Quotes

1. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan

2. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. - Mildred B. Vermont

3. A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries

4. The phrase “working mother” is redundant. - Jane Sellman

5. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. - Rajneesh

6. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. - Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

7. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln

8. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl S. Buck

9. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives.- Sophia Loren

10. A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking. - Helen Rice

11. There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill

12. Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young. - Unknown

13. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. -Dorothy Canfield Fisher

14. A mother understands what a child does not say. - Unknown

15. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown

16. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with it's offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. - John Erskine

17. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life. - Unknown

18. And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry. -Unknown

19. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. -Lisa Alther

20. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - Chinese Proverb

21. To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. - Marilyn French

22. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

23. She is their earth… She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter… - Katherine Butler Hathaway

24. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren

25. It’s the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have… One pair that sees through closed doors. Another in the back of her head… and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect “I understand and I love you” without so much as uttering a word. – Erma Bombeck

26. A mother’s children are like ideas; none are as wonderful as her own. – Chinese Fortune

27. My point is that no matter what the ordinary person says…no matter who it is that speaks, or what superlatives are employed, no baby is admired sufficiently to please the mother. – E.V. Lucas

28. A mother doesn’t give a damn about your looks. She thinks you are beautiful, anyway. – Marion C. Garretty

29. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honore de Balzac

30. The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. - William Goldsmith Brown

31. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. -Marion C. Garretty

32. The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. - Mignon McLaughlin

33. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert

34. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm

35. A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” - Keith L. Brooks

36. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

37. No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. - Harry Truman

38. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. - Oprah Winfrey

39. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. - Irish Proverb

40. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all the stands in its path. - Agatha Christie

41. Children and mothers never truly part – Bound in the beating of each other’s heart. - Charlotte Gray

42. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. -P.J. O’Rourke

43. I’d rather be a mother than anyone on earth bringing up a child or two of unpretentious birth, I’d rather tuck a little child all safe and sound in bed than twine a chain of diamonds about my head. I’d rather wash a smudgy face with round, bright, baby eyes, than paint the pageantry of fame or walk among the wise. -Meredith Gray

44. Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. - T. DeWitt Talmage

45. Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. - Danielle Steel

46. Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -Beverly Jones

47. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. - Mildred B. Vermont

48. Two Temples
A builder builded a temple,
He wrought it with grace and skill;
Pillars and groins and arches
All fashioned to work his will.
Men said, as they saw its beauty,
“It shall never know decay;
Great is thy skill, O builder!
Thy fame shall endure for aye.”

A mother builded a temple
With loving and infinite care,
Planning each arch with patience,
Laying each stone with prayer.
None praised her unceasing efforts,
None knew of her wondrous plan,
For the temple the mother builded
Was unseen by the eyes of man.

Gone is the builder’s temple,
Crumpled into the dust;
Low lies each stately pillar,
Food for consuming rust.
But the temple the mother builded
Will last while the ages roll,
For that beautiful unseen temple
Was a child’s immortal soul.
- Hattie Vose Hall

49. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty

50. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O’Rourke

Memories Quotes

1. God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. – James Barrie

2. We must always have old memories and young hopes. - Arsene Houssaye

Music Quotes

1. Music is a revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy. - Ludwig von Beethoven

2. Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

3. Music is to the mind as air is to the body. - Plato

4. Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Andersen

5. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

6. Music is a part of us and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. – Boethus

7. When I think of God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes leap and dance as they leave my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, I serve Him with a cheerful spirit. - Franz Joseph Haydn

8. Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw

9. As long as we live there is never enough singing. - Martin Luther

10. Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

Mercy Quotes

1. In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy. - Legal Maxim

Marriage Quotes

1. Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1) Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2) Whenever you're right, shut up. - Patrick Murra

2. Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed. - Albert Einstein

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

4. The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. - Amy Grant

5. A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. - Morris L. Ernst

6. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. - Raquel Welch

7. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett R. Brickner

8. Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to take out the trash. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

9. You don't marry someone you can live with; you marry the person who you cannot live without. - Unknown

Luck Quotes

1. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey

3. Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune,’ but, ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’ - Marcus Aurelius

4. Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid

5. Chance favors those in motion. - James H. Austin

6. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama

7. A wise man turns chance into good fortune. - Thomas Fuller

8. The champion makes his own luck. - Red Blaik

9. Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 per cent. - Langston Coleman

10. Luck is believing you're lucky. - Tennessee Williams

11. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. - Ray Kroc

12. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - Brian Tracy

13. Chance favors only those who court her. - Charles Nicolle

14. Fortune befriends the bold. - John Dryden

Love Quotes

1. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert Humphrey

2. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

3. To love someone means to see him as God intended him. – Dostoevsky

4. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

5. If you would be loved, love and be loveable. - Benjamin Franklin

6. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

7. To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? - Katherine Graham

8. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
- Unknown

9. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

10. There is no such thing as conditional love. Love is either unconditional or it's no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say 'I love you because', for love has no cause, love comes from God. - Unknown

11. True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be. - Unknown

12. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters. - Mother Teresa

14. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. - Thomas Merto

15. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. - Thomas S. Monson

16. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. – Dalai Lama

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. – Dalai Lama

18. The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. - Charles H. Perkhurst

20. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen Covey

21. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer

22. Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. - Diane Arbus

23. Love will conquer all. - Virgil

24. Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. - Leo Buscaglia

25. Fear is man's greatest enemy. It is behind failure, sickness, and bad human relations. Love casts out fear. Love is an emotional attachment to the good things of life. Fall in love with honesty, integrity, justice, good will, and success. - John Fogg

26. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller

27. Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Elizabeth Browning

28. The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance. - Unknown

29. The art of love...is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

30. A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. - Leo Buscaglia

31. If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won’t be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold. - Unknown

32. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. - Pablo Neruda

33. Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. - Zig Ziglar

34. Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love. - Lloyd D. Newell

35. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

36. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

37. People are not going to love you unless you love them. - Pat Carroll

38. This is real compassion, this is real love; sharing your enlightenment, sharing your dance of the beyond. - Osho

39. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara DeAngelis

40. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. - Norman Vincent Peale

41. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou

42. Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. - C.S. Lewis

43. Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Carl Jung

44. Love is a better teacher than duty. - Albert Einstein

45. Love is the absence of judgement. - Dalai Lama XIV

46. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. - Gandhi

47. Love blinds the eyes to faults, and hatred blinds the eyes to virtues. - Jewish proverb

48. Absence - that common cure of love. - Lord Byron

49. Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. - Immanuel Kant

50. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you. - Erich Fromm

51. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm

52. I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

53. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

54. Love looks not with the eye but with the mind. -William Shakespeare, "A MidSummer Night's Dream"

55. Do everything in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:14

56. To love another person is to see the face of God. - from the musical "Les Miserables"

57. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.  - Mother Teresa

58. There are two kinds of people in this world: those that you love, and those that you don't know. - Unknown

59. Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors! Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue. - Gordon B. Hinkley

60. A life without love is like a year without summer. - Swedish proverb

61. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Listening Quotes

1. A closed mouth gathers no feet. - Unknown

2. We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less. - Zeno

3. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

4. Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. - Frank Tyger

Life Quotes

1. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. - Corita Kent

2. My sun sets to rise again. - Robert Browning

3. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson

4. The best things in life aren’t things. - Art Buchwald

5. A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre

6. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

7. To find fulfillment...don’t coexist with life - embrace it. - Jim Beggs

8. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

9. The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. - American Proverb

10. A river flows smoothly only after a lifetime of passion and purpose. – Unknown

11. Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. - Thomas Carlyle

12. Live your life, every day of it, with great expectations and great things will happen in your life, daily. - Art Fettig

13. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. - Samuel Smiles

14. Live every day of your life as though you expected to live forever. - Douglas MacArthur

15. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.- Marie Curie

16. Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius

17. The best lessons in life are learned from negative experiences that are turned into positive ones. - Art Linkletter

18. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke

19. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

20. Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

21. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

22. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. - Samuel Smiles

23. Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. - Unknown

24. Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day. - Darrell Royal

25. There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest people achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith

26. You can't do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width. - Unknown

27. Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely. - Kay Lyons

28. With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. - Unknown

29. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. - Ellen Glasgow

30. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. - Joe Knapp

31. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman

32. Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. – Garfield

33. Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Anderson

34. Are you too busy driving the car to stop and get gas? - Stephen Covey

35. The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Henry David Thoreau

36. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. - Margaret Bonnano

37. The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will. - Michel de Montaigne

38. Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Marge Piercy

39. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. - Douglas Jerrold

40. No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

41. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

42. Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

43. Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

44. Dancing in the rain isn't something that most of us are born knowing how to do. We learn it. We learn it from others; we learn it from Life. The more we dance, the better we get at it. - BJ Gallagher

45. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God. - Unknown

47. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future...but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

48. 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

49. Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. - Unknown

50. It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. - Jose Rizal

51. Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. - Horace

52. Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away, till what we put off till tomorrow has now become today. So don't sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide. - The River

53. It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. - Helen Walton

54. Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. - Thomas L. Holdcroft

55. If you are going to ask 'Why is this happening to me?' when things are going bad, then you should also ask the same question when things are going good. - Unknown

56. To know that every moment ~ regardless of how it comes wrapped ~ is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear. - Guy Finley

57. The precise nature of the test of mortality, then, can be summarized in the following questions: Will my body rule over my spirit, or will my spirit rule over my body? Will I yield to the enticings of the natural man or to the eternal man? That, brothers and sisters, is the test. - David A. Bednar

58. The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present. - Unknown

59. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Sir Winston Churchill

60. The way we live outweighs any words we may profess to follow. - Delbert L. Stapley

61. Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life. - Hugh Prather

62. Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. - May Sarton

63. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

64. Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Unknown

65. If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. - Walter Mondale

66. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. - Ruth E. Renkl

67. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

68. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses

69. Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius

70. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

72. There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Gandhi

73. Don't go through life, GROW through life. - Eric Butterworth

74. He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Bessie Anderson Stanley

75. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

76. When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” - Sydney J. Harris

77. What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. - Johann Wolfgang

78. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

79. Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy

80. Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, SIMPLIFY. - Henry David Thoreau

81. Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli

82. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Sir Winston Churchill

83. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

84. Life doesn't always look or smell like a rose. There are times when fallen petals need to be picked up and crushed before the fragrance is set free once more. - Unknown

85. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein

86. Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind. - Mark Twain

87. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

88. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -Eleanor Roosevelt

89. Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw

90. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people can change. - Unknown

91. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson

92. We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor

93. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. - Laurence Sterne

94. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed. - Bernard Baruch

95. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do colour life but you have been given the mind to choose what colour they shall be. - John Homer Miller

96. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - E. Roosevelt

97. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

98. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. -Danny Kaye

99. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen

100. All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

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

102. Living is like licking honey off a thorn. - Unknown

103. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings

104. Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Antonio Smith

105. It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

106. Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin

107. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses

108. You have to count on living every day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself. - Jane Seymour

109. Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. - Marcus Aurelius

110. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

111. To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. - Unknown

112. To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. - Reba McEntire

113. Enrich your life with the beauty around you. There is such an abundance of it. - Elder Richard G. Scott

114. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey

115. Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

116. Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.” ― Jenkin Lloyd Jones

117. 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. - Marcus Aurelius

118. It's not how old you are, but how you are old. - Jules Renard

119. Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

120. If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. - Mark Houlahan

121. Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. - William P. Merrill

122. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

123. It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. - Evelyn Underhill

124. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson

125. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

126. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. - Les Brown

127. What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. - George Eliot

128. Life has a higher end, than to be amused. - William Ellery Channing

129.Your life only gets better when you get better. -Brian Tracy

130. A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway." - Marianne Williamson

131. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. - Dale Carnegie
 
132. The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world. - Dale Carnegie

133. The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account. - Chris Gardner

134. It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem. - W. Clement Stone

135. The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. - David Viscott
 
136. Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there. - David Viscott

137. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

138. The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. - Michael LeBoeuf

139. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. - Les Brown

140. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson

141. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

142. Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

143. The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. - William Feather

144. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

145. Don’t think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a second chance… It’s called tomorrow. - Nicholas Sparks

146. If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

147. Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. - Matt Biondi

148. The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind. - Gail Sheehy

149. The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. - Dave Weinbaum

150. It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem. - W. Clement Stone

151. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

For some great poems on life, see:
http://positivethinkersjournal.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-nine-aspects-of-life-and-poem-of.html

Leadership Quotes

1. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton

2. If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack. – Unknown

3. Leadership is action not position. – Unknown

4. The main quality of leadership...is courage! - Walt Disney

5. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Self-leadership is the ability to get yourself to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, whether you feel like it or not, and still do it well. - Jim Cathcart

7. Just like coaches of successful sports teams, effective leaders must adjust their strategy once the game begins, in response to changes in the environment. – Adam C. Zylman

8. To add value to others, one must first value others. - John Maxwell

9. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin

10. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. - William Arthur Ward

11. Quotes by Lee J. Colan:

• Leadership is about others, not ourselves.
• Leaders who give the best of themselves get the best from others.
• If you do not take care of the little things over the long term, you won't take care of the big things.
• Leaders who underestimate the intelligence of their employees generally overestimate their own.
• Great leaders appreciate their employees, not just their contributions.
• Don't worry about leaving your leadership legacy. Just live it.

Laughter Quotes

1. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. - Arnold Glasow

2. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. - Ken Kesey

3. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston

4. Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

5. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. - Sebastian-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

6. Take time to laugh, it’s the music of the soul. - Unknown

7. A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin

8. Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother. - Barbara Johnson

9. What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. - Yiddish Proverb

10. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. - Woody Allen

11. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo

12. A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. - Puzant Kevork Thomajan

13. A laugh is a smile that bursts. - Mary H. Waldrip

14. The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter - E.E. Cummings

15. Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby

16. He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole

17. Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins

18. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

19. A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - William Makepeace Thackery

20. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln

21. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher

22. A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. - Mignon McLaughlin