Quotes to live by

We always strive to be better, to have more and be smarter. Here are some amazing quotes to live by. These gives you a good understanding and explanation of how other people have done to get a better life. Great quotes that can also teach you a little about life.

• “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
• “Talent is given, greatness is earned.”
• “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
• “Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever you were going to do anyway.”
• “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”






• “Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.”
• “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
• “If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.”
• “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
• “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.”
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
• “See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.”
• “Great people, no matter their field, have similar habits. Learn them and use them in your own quest for greatness.”
• “The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
• “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

Great Quotes to live by

• “It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
• “There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”
• “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
• “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
• “Money is only a human invention.”
• “Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
• “The higher you climb the better the view.”
• “Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”
• “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
• “A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.”
• “With patience you can even cook a stone.”
• “To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”
• “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.”
• “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there’s footprints on the moon.”
• “In a world of words, anything is possible.”
• “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
• “Life is not measured by the amount of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
• “Choose a job you love, & you will never have to work a day in your life.
• “To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”
• “It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.”






• “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.”
• “Life sucks. Hard. I don’t care how melodramatic that sounds, it’s the truth and I’m living it.”
• “If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.”
• “Your testimony begins the moment you demonstrate livable truth.”
• “Great things never came from comfort zones.”
• “In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.”
• “We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.”
• “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
• “Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.”
• “I’ve experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.”
• “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”

More Quotes to live by

• “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
• “Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
• “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
• “Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything.”
• “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
• “Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today.”
• “The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will live forever in people’s hearts.”
• “STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.”
• “If you want something you’ve never had then you you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.”
• “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
• “The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.”
• “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
• “Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours.”
• “You choose the Life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.”
• “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
• “You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.”
• “Life is a stage and you get only one performance. Make it a good one.”
• “The biggest mistake you’ll ever make is letting people stay in your life for longer than they deserve.”
• “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.”






• “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
• “They laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at them because they’re all the same.”
• “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, & character.”
• “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
• “Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.”
• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
• “Critical feedback is the breakfast of champions. Defensiveness is the dinner of losers.”
• “Live life to the fullest because you only get to live it once.”
• “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”
• “Do things that count, but don’t count the things you do.”
• “Before you dismiss a beginner’s work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.”
• “Begin each day with a grateful heart.”
• “Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
• “Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
• “You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.”
• “If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
• “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
• “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
• “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
• “If you do not go after go after what you want, you will never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.”
• “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
• “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
• “Clear your mind of can’t!”
• “Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
• “All the days that you wake up, you got one job, and that’s to get better every single day.”
• “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
• “When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.”
• “Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.”
• “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
• “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”






• “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
• “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
• “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
• “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
• “The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.”
• “If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.”
• “If not us, who? If not now, when?”
• “You were born with the ability to change someone’s life – don’t ever waste it.”
• “Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”
• “If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.”
• “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
• “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
• “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”
• “Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.”
• “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
• “You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.”
• “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
• “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
• “Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”
• “Never ignore someone who cares for you because someday you’ll realize you’ve lost a diamond while you were busy collecting stones.”
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
• “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
• “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
• “Don’t worry what others are doing. Do you!”
• “Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.”
• “Stay strong. Even when it feels like everything’s falling apart.”
• “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”
• “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
• “Every noble work is at first impossible.”
• “Your mind is like water, when agitated it becomes difficult to see but if allowed to settle, the answer becomes clear.”






• “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
• “Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.”
• “The best revenge is massive success.”
• “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
• “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”

The last 30 Quotes to live by

• “Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.”
• “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
• “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’”
• “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
• “Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.”
• “It is not enough to aim, you must hit.”
• “Just Remember: The people that say, “your dreams are impossible ” have already quit on theirs.”
• “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
• “Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
• “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
• “Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.”
• “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”
• “The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”
• “We become what we think about.”
• “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
• “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
• “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.”
• “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
• “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
• “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.”

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Be original, imaginative and helpful. These are some of the things that can make your life more meaningful. Sometimes you can feel that you do the same thing over and over every day, but it does not have to be taht way. Read these quotes and learn how to improve your life by changing just a few things.