Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.
John C. MaxwellLibraries raised me.
Ray BradburyIf money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry FordEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinWhen a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles DickensI’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.
Taylor SwiftYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiOnly the insecure strive for security.
Wayne DyerThe human heart is the same the world over.
Billy GrahamA wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel JohnsonAnyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz KafkaThe man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert HubbardExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas JeffersonThose who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseIf you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
Mr. TIf your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Joyce MeyerPeople who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce MeyerI have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano RonaldoThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.
Kevin HartWe learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
Jackie ChanEmotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
Robert GreeneTo be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil GibranWhat really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheI’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.
Jim MattisIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore RooseveltPeople don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammad AliWhat we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMy life is a struggle.
VoltaireI think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettYou can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.
Joel OsteenI used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
Joyce MeyerHe who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. ForbesLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliWealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David ThoreauEverything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David BowieCourage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LewisWhen people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander PopeModern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John RuskinWe are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
AristotleMy dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘
Joe BidenI don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.
Stephen HawkingWhen life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor RooseveltNo one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James BaldwinI let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
Taylor SwiftAny hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
Kevin HartIt is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
BuddhaThe willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert SchweitzerMy parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
Dwayne JohnsonNo woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander PopeThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusA lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul SartreThe best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren BuffettIn all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya AngelouFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph AddisonFriendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor RooseveltPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir