750 Inspirational Deep Quotes To Make You Think (2023)

1. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra

2. “All the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say No, and said Yes.” ~ Moss Hart

3. “I do not fear the unknown, I fear that what I do know will never take me anywhere.”― Najah Roberts

4. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

5. “Greatness is what happens when you relentlessly push yourself to continuously create a better you.” ―Edmond Mbiaka

6. “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

7. “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” – Voltaire

9. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

10. “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” – Elbert Hubbard

11. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

12. “I’ve hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it’s the only way to deal with things.” – Alice Feeney

13. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”— Confucius

14. “The only reason we get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory.” ~ Ashton Leinen

15. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne

16. “The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or ever touched. They must be felt with the heart.”—Helen Keller

17. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit

18. “The best proof of love is trust.”

19. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

20. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

21. “A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”

22. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

23. “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

24. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”

25. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin

26. “The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.” – Stephen King

27. “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” – Martin Heidegger

28. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

29. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

30. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

31. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”

32. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”

33. “Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.” – Mick Jagger

34. If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?” —Lee Strasberg

35. “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Butler Leacock

36. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius

37. “Love is what you've been through with somebody.”

38. “It does not matter how strong your vocabulary is, It’s all vain if your words can’t make happy anyone.” ~ Invajy

39. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller

40. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius

41. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”― Charles Bukowski

42. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

43. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

44. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

45. “Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib

46. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” ~ Michael Korda

47. “Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.” —Bill McCartney

48. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.” – Brennan Manning

49. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver

50. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.” – Steve Maraboli

51. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein

52. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

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

54. “When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT’S when you push forward the hardest.” ―Yvonne Pierre

55. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ― Roy T. Bennett

56. “We become what we think about.”

57. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ~ Chris Grosser

58. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

59. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

60. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran

61. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”

62. “Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” – Rick Rubin

63. “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” – Lao Tzu

64. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

65. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” ~ Dalai Lama

66. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” – Peace Pilgrim

67. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”― Lance Armstrong

68. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

69. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

70. “Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”

71. “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.” – Charles Stanley

73. “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

74. “If you have to introduce yourself then understand that success is still far away.” ~ Invajy

75. Set goals for those open hours to maximize your thinking time and use powerful questions to encourage deep thinking.

76. “Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” – Wim Wender

77. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ― Bill Gates

78. “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” – George Harrison

79. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino

80. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

81. “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”

82. “Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.”― Jessica Park

83. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

84. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

85. “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon

86. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

87. “Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

88. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein

89. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –Nelson Mandela

90. “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”

91. “It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times.” – Yukiso Yamamoto

92. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

93. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” —Serena Williams

94. “Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

95. “You shouldn’t have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.” – Daniel Quinn

96. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

97. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

98. “Mistakes don’t make relationships as weak as misunderstandings.” ~ Invajy

99. “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” – Wallace Stevens

100. “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” – Jimmy Carter

101. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

102. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

103. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

104. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

105. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner

106. “A man is but what he knows.” – Sir Francis Bacon

107. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

108. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault

109. “The Law of Win/Win says, ‘Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way’.” ~ Greg Anderson

110. “At any given moment, you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” ~ Christine Mason Miller

111. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats

112. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko

113. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

114. “Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!”― Mark A. Cooper

115. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ~ Albert Einstein

116. “Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

117. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”― Albert Einstein

118. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry van Dyke

119. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

120. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”

121. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ―Albert Einstein

122. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

123. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

124. “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” ~ Matty Mullens

125. “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

126. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Tom Wilson

127. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell

128. “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

129. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

130. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde

131. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson

132. “Could I have been anyone other than me?” ~ Dave Matthews

133. “A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

134. “Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.” ~ Dr. Seuss

135. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

136. “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.

137. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran

138. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – William Faulkner

139. “Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.” – Taraji P. Henson

140. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss

141. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

142. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”

143. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.

144. “All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

145. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

146. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

147. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov

148. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”― Sun Tzu

149. Devoting time to think will allow you to maximize your Everyday Power and operate at your full potential.

150. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca

151. “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey

152. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”– C.S. Lewis

153. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

154. Thinking time allows you to understand yourself better, make smarter decisions, and see things differently. It also helps reduce time waste, reduce stress and increase your confidence and happiness.

155. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

156. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.” – APJ Abdul Kalam

157. “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

158. “Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.”― Nina Guilbeau

159. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

160. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”

161. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

162. “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” —Buddhist Proverb

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

164. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

165. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”

166. “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” ~ Bertrand Russell

167. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

168. “What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.” – Nicholas Nassim Taleb

169. “Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.” ~ Bobby Unser

170. “Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”― Lauren Conrad

171. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” ~ C. S. Lewis

172. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey

173. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley

174. And deal full many a thoughtless blow

175. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King

176. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” — Elbert Hubbard

177. “Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernandez

178. “After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”

179. “You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” – Beverly Rubik

180. “Reality is such an elusive concept.” ― Laura Gilfillan

181. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

182. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“ – Groucho Marx

183. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel

184. “We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau

185. “Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” – Walter Anderson

186. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

187. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim

188. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

189. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”

190. “Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” – Tyga

191. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. – Oprah Winfrey

192. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

193. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”~ Albert Einstein

194. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

195. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

196. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

197. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

198. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C. S. Lewis

199. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.– Nora Roberts

200. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

201. No matter how busy your schedule might be, set aside some time in your calendar to think of new ideas and brainstorm ways to push through your problems.

202. “The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”

203. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

204. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”― John Muir

205. “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

206. “Good things happen to those who hustle.”

207. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

208. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~ Mark Twain

209. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

210. “No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep

211. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

212. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

213. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o

214. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

215. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”— L.M. Montgomery

216. “There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton

217. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland

218. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

219. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

220. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

221. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis

222. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” – Les Dawson

223. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” – Seneca

224. “I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” – Steven Spielberg

225. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”

226. “If you continue to think the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” ~ Kevin Trudeau

227. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” — Edmund Hillary

228. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

229. “We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” — Confucius

230. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

231. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

232. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ―Charles Bukowski

233. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” ~ Bill Gates

234. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

235. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde

236. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”

237. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

238. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”

239. “Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” – Albert Camus

240. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.” – Joan Collins

241. “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”– Michel de Montaigne

242. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

243. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

244. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

245. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

246. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

247. “I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.” – Jonas Salk

248. “Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.”― Mohammed Ali Bapir

249. “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” – Coco Chanel

250. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

251. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller

252. “Love is a friendship set to music.”

253. “Go the extra mile, there’s no one on it.” – Grant Cardone

254. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

255. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville

256. “Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

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258. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi

259. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins

260. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

261. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun

262. “We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” — Bruce Lee

263. “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ” – A. W. Tozer

264. “Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.” ~ Renata Adler

265. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” —Wilma Rudolph

266. “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.” – A. W. Tozer

267. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus

268. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”— John A. Shedd

269. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ~ Margaret Mead

270. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou

271. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

272. “You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

273. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”

274. “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.” ― John Green

275. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” ~ Jim Rohn

276. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

277. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”

278. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Maori proverb

279. “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” – Eckhart Tolle

280. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

281. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~ Helen Keller

282. “Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts.”

283. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin

284. “The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.” – Paulo Coelho

285. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

286. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.“

287. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” ~ Robert H Schuller

288. “Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” – Doe Zantamata

289. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” – Kahlil Gibran

290. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow

291. “At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.”― Bill Watterson

292. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”― Roy T. Bennett

293. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

294. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

295. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

296. “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.” – Tennessee Williams

297. “You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.” —Zig Ziglar

298. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

299. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

300. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

301. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” – Theodore Roosevelt

302. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

303. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus

304. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

305. “Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.” – Bell Hooks

306. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine

307. “Don’t wait for others to bring the change. Be the change and bring the change.” ― Invajy

308. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

309. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

310. With all the pressures of life, spending time to think brings many benefits. It’s vital for your success and well-being.

311. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”― Albert Einstein

312. “Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi

313. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

314. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

315. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe

316. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”

317. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

318. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Ryun

319. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

320. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

321. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

322. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”

323. While journeying east and west –

324. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farraj Gray

325. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

326. “What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike

327. “Your positive energy leaves a powerful impression on the world.” – Gabby Bernstein

328. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”

329. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

330. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

331. “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.”

332. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”

333. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

334. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

335. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

336. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

337. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

338. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

339. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

340. “Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~ Charles Dickens

341. “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” – Oscar Wilde

342. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

343. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”― Rumi

344. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found

345. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

346. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” – Anne Frank

347. “Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide.”― Bernard Kelvin Clive

348. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

349. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

350. “I know all about how one moment could haunt you for the rest of your life. How it consumes you and every facet of your life.” – Micalea Smeltzer

351. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

352. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”― Brennan Manning

353. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” – Oscar Wilde

354. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C. S. Lewis

355. “When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.” – Mandy Hale

356. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe

357. “Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

358. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

359. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

360. “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

361. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl

362. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”― Oprah Winfrey

363. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”~ Swami Vivekananda

364. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

365. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ~Rick Riordan

366. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” — Bill Keane

367. “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

368. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

369. “Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong.”― Mike Higton

370. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

371. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

372. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

373. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

374. “Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”

375. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

376. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

377. “The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.” – William Faulkner

378. “Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”– Hans Christian Andersen

379. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” – Sun Tzu

380. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

381. “The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu

382. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ”~ Robert Schuller

383. “Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren

384. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

385. “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn

386. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” ~ Earl Nightingale

387. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill

388. “In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.” – Mike Dolan

389. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi

390. “Don’t wait for others to bring the change. Be the change and bring the change.” ~ Invajy

391. “Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.”― Rebecca Wells

392. “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

393. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal

394. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ~ Stephen King

395. “I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

396. “What you deeply need is not stuff, comfort or beauty, it’s meaning.” — Maxime Lagacé

397. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

398. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

399. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

400. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert Schuller

401. “Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

402. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

403. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” – Ferdinand Foch

404. “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” – William Hazlitt

405. “Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” ~ Barbara Baron

406. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

407. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others—it only changes yours.” – Shannon Alder

408. “The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” – Alexandre Dumas

409. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

410. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

411. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” ~ Carl Jung

412. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

413. “When you train your eyes to see the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift.”—Carol Woodliff

414. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” ~ Anne Frank

415. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

416. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

417. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

418. “I rebel; therefore I exist.” — Albert Camus

419. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

420. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

421. “If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”

422. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

423. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

424. “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren

425. “You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

426. “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

427. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ~ Oscar Wilde

428. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

429. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

430. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” ~ John Barrymore

431. “I don’t believe in pain management anymore, I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.”—Dr. Moskowitz

432. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley

433. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

434. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

435. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~ Victor Hugo

436. “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” ~ Isaac Newton

437. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

438. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”

439. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen

440. “Spread love everywhere you go.” ~ Mother Teresa

441. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

442. “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” ~ Neil Strauss

443. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”― Marcus Aurelius

444. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”

445. “Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh

446. “Love is a better teacher than duty.”

447. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” ―William James

448. “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” – C.S. Lewis

449. “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn its back on you.”― Jennifer Donnelly

450. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

451. “Nothing happens unless first we dream.” – Carl Sandburg

452. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” ~ Serena Williams

453. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”

454. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”― Joshua Wisenbaker

455. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling

456. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”

457. “Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

458. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

459. “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” – Carl Jung

460. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins

461. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”

462. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

463. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” – Nikola Tesla

464. “When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”― Yann Martel

465. “Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernandez

466. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

467. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” — Oprah Winfrey

468. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.” – Frank Sinatra

469. “Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.”

470. “Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” – Friederich Nietsche

471. “Life teaches you a new lesson every day, if you are attentive enough in the class of life.” ― Invajy

472. “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” — Arthur Rimbaud

473. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha

474. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” ~ Jen Sincero

475. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

476. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”

477. “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

478. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

479. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

480. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

481. “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”― Michelle Williams

482. “Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”― Brandon Sanderson

483. Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

484. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

485. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

486. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett

487. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

488. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

489. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

490. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” – Erich Fromm

491. We need to devote time to thinking to allow us to ponder our plans, actions, and decisions.

492. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Seneca

493. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen

494. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

495. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

496. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

497. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

498. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

499. “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.” – Bryant H. McGill

500. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle.

501. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese

502. “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”― Sherrilyn Kenyon

503. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”—Roy T. Bennett

504. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

505. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

506. “The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”

507. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

508. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”― Wayne W. Dyer

509. “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” ~ Les Brown

510. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” —Gordon B. Hinckley

511. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

512. “The greatest mistake you can ever make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” – Ellen Hubbard

513. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“

514. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”– William G.T. Shedd

515. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill

516. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

517. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”― Paulo Coelho

518. “Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.” ~ Dragos Roua

519. “Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

520. “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” – Jackson Brown Jr.

521. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ~ Frederick Douglass

522. “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” ~ Terence McKenna

523. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill

524. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

525. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim

526. “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”― Haruki Murakami

527. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

528. “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” – Bryant H. McGill

529. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

530. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine

531. “Never cheat in the relationships… if you don’t like a relationship, just end it.” ~ Invajy

532. “Whatever you do, do with all your might.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

533. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C. S. Lewis

534. “Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.”

535. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

536. “The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.” – Napoleon Hill

537. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

538. “The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

539. “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

540. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan

541. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

542. “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” ~ Victor Hugo

543. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”– C. S. Lewis

544. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

545. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

546. “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

547. “There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

548. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

549. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

550. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

551. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”

552. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”

553. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”

554. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King

555. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill

556. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”

557. “The average men consume. The wise create.” — Maxime Lagacé

558. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

559. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

560. ”Today I do what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don’t.” – Jerry Rice

561. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~ Henrik Ibsen

562. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

563. “In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end. ”~ Fernando Sabino

564. “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”― Chico Xavier

565. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

566. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

567. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

568. “He that can have patience can have what he will.”― Benjamin Franklin

569. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

570. “Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” – Dave Ramsey

571. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” — Vince Lombardi

572. “What matters most in life is often invisible.” — Duane Elgin

573. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ~ Stephanie Perkins

574. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

575. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

576. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”― Confucius

577. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

578. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine

579. “The ultimate productivity hack is saying no.” – James Clear

580. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

581. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

582. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

583. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey

584. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Tom Wilson

585. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”

586. “The cure for pain is in the pain.”― Rumi

587. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

588. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey

589. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ~ Farrah Gray

590. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

591. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

592. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”

593. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

594. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II

595. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” ~ John C. Maxwell

596. “Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide”― Bernard Kelvin Clive

597. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

598. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard Nixon

599. “Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. So think positive and be positive.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

600. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

601. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

602. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”

603. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

604. “Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you.” – Robert Greene

605. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

606. “When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”

607. “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” ―Santosh Kalwar

608. “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” ~ Francis Bacon

609. ‘It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

610. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

611. “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”― Tom Hiddleston

612. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” ~ Buddha

613. “Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

614. “The past does not equal the future.” – Tony Robbins

615. “Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”― Virginia Woolf

616. “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden

617. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

618. “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.” – Jim Kwik

619. “If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

620. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”

621. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

622. “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” ~ Martin Heidegger

623. “I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.” – Mitch Hedberg

624. “Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.” – Leonardo Di Caprio

625. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

626. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~ Arthur Ashe

627. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

628. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” —Og Mandino

629. “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver

630. “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

631. “If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” ~ Rumi

632. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

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634. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Anais Nin

635. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

636. “Sometimes, when you least expect it, you’ll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile.” – Homer Simpson

637. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman

638. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

639. “I rebel; therefore I exist.” ~ Albert Camus

640. “The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.” – William Shatner

641. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

642. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

643. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C. S. Lewis

644. “Stay foolish to stay sane.” – Maxime Lagacé

645. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”― Roy T. Bennett

646. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

647. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

648. “Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”― Aldous Huxley

649. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

650. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

651. “If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” – Toni Morrison

652. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

653. “Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

654. “There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.” ~ Charles Dickens

655. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

656. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

657. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

658. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins

659. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” – Rumi

660. “Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

661. “You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.”― Robert M. Drake

662. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything. – Katharine Hepburn

663. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”― Lao Tzu

664. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ Lolly Daskal

665. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

666. “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”― Henry David Thoreau

667. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” ~ Tony Robbins

668. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama

669. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

670. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde

671. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

672. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

673. “Happening Good things may not make you positive. You have to be positive. And, when you’re positive, good things are bound to happen.”~ Invajy

674. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

675. “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.” ~ Michelle Williams

676. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way

677. “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell

678. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.” – Ann Hood

679. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” — Robert H Schuller

680. “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”― Erin Hunter

681. “Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back.”― Tarun Sharma

682. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

683. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

684. We flatter those we scarcely know,

685. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” ~ Anne Frank

686. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz

687. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

688. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

689. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

690. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ~ Ranata Suzuki

691. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

692. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” ~Joe Kennedy

693. “Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.” – Mario Benedetti

694. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

695. “Life teaches you a new lesson every day, if you are attentive enough in the class of life.” ~ Invajy

696. “Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” – Tom Fleming

697. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

698. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz

699. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

700. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee

701. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”― Will Rogers

702. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

703. “The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers

704. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ~ Michael John Bobak

705. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

706. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

707. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

708. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

709. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama

710. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

711. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

712. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

713. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” ~ Seneca

714. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” – Henrik Ibsen

715. “A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.” – Albert Einstein

716. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

717. “The best revenge is massive success.”

718. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

719. “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

720. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”― Cesare Pavese

721. “Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

722. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

723. “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” – Woody Allen

724. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

725. “If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins

726. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama

727. “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” – Baruch Spinoza

728. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

729. “Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless.”― Tommy Wallach

730. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

731. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”― J.K. Rowling

732. “Don’t use yesterday’s state of mind, to make today’s decision.”― C. Nzingha Smith

733. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Stephen Furtick

734. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”

735. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michel Angelo

736. “I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”

737. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”― Malala Yousafzai

738. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

739. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë

740. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France

741. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

742. “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

743. “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”

744. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa

745. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

746. “We choose to go to the moon and do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

747. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

748. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”― Charlie Chaplin

749. “You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”*

750. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam