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Famous Quotes On Life by Legends
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
— John Wooden
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
— Jim Rohn
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” — Confucious
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda
“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.” — Denzel Washington
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” — Nelson Mandela
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” — Albert Einstein
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi (Famous Quotes)
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
“May you live every day of your life.” — Jonathan Swift
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” — Mother Teresa
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.”— Neil Armstrong
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde
Famous Quotes by Legends On Business
“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”
— Walt Disney
“The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel
“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” — Jeff Bezos
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
— Bruce Feirstein
“Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”— Richard Branson
“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” — Katie Couric
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
— Dolly Parton
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” — Malcolm Forbes
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
— Michael Jordan (Quotes by Legends)
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein
“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.” — Ray Goforth
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”— Mary Kay Ash
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Audrey Hepburn
Famous Legend Quotes
“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.”
— Mark Twain
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
— Robert Collier
“People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one.”
— Kevin Kline
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” — Thomas J. Watson
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”— Colin Powell
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” — Philippos
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” — Earl Nightingale (Legend Quotes)
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vidal Sassoon
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” — Carl Bard
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” — Mark Caine
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”
— Helen Keller
“Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” — Jay-Z
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” — Charles F. Kettering
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” — Jimmy Spithill
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
— Katharine Hepburn
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
— Charlotte Bronte
“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” — Steve Jobs
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” — Kate Winslet
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”— Barack Obama
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” — T. Harv Eker
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
— Deepak Chopra
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.” — Steve Wozniak
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” — Jane Smiley
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw (Legend Quotes on Success)
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates
“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.” — Diane Ackerman
“To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” — Mike Gafka
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde (Quotes by legends)
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn
“But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.”
— Arianna Huffington
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas A. Edison
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” — Stephen Covey (Famous Quotes)
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson – Founder and Chairman of The Virgin Group
Famous Quotes on Success by Legends
“Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.” — Jack Dorsey – Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter
“In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.” —Tommy Lasorda – Former Manager Baseball Team
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.” — Oprah Winfrey – Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host, Actress, Producer and Philanthropist
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”—Tom Hanks – Actor and Filmmaker (Legend Quotes on Life)
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer and Businesswoman
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
“It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.” — Vince Lombardi
“If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.” — Chris Guillebeau
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” — Jonathan Winters
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar (Legend Quotes)
“Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job, or whatever just do you.” — Surgeo Bell
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” — Oprah Winfrey
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”— Thomas Edison – Inventor and Businessman (World Famous Quotes)
“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” — Anita Roddick – Founder of The Body Shop
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” —Michael Jordan – Professional Basketball Player
“Make your team feel respected, empowered, and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” — Tim Westergren – Founder of Pandora
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” —Albert Einstein – Physicist (Famous Quotes)
“It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” — Jim Carrey – Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter and Producer
“I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” — Emma Watson – Actress, Model and Activist
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” — Arianna Huffington – Co-Founder of The Huffington Post
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.” — Steve Jobs – Founder and CEO of Apple (Legend Quotes)
“I get excited by being told it’s not been done before or it’s not possible. Why? Let’s find a different way to do it and let’s do it. Now, that’s exciting!” — Victoria Beckham – Businesswoman, Fashion designer and Model
“Don’t expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen…” — Deborah Meaden – Dragon’s Den Investor
“Success if walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” — Rupert Murdoch – Media Mogul
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” — Ingvar Kamprad – Founder of Ikea
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates – Founder and CEO of Microsoft
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”— Conrad Hilton – Founder of The Hilton Hotels chain
“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.”— Ben Silbermann – Founder of Pinterest
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” — Reid Hoffman – Co-Founder of LinkedIn
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake – Co-Founder of Flickr
“Failure is simply the opportunity to being again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz – CEO of Starbucks (Famous Quotes by Legends)
“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job everyday to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.” — Jeff Bezos – Founder and CEO of Amazon
“If you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.” — Mark Zuckerberg – Founder and CEO of Facebook
Legend Quotes on Wisdom
You can do anything, but not everything.” — David Allen
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” — Unknown Author
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”— Ambrose Redmoon
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” —Wayne Gretzky
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”— Gandhi (Famous Quotes)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” — A. A. Milne
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” —Abraham Maslow
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. — Lin-Chi
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. —Baltasar Gracian
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. — John Ruskin
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. —Basho
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. — Marcel Proust
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching — Unknown Author
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. — Virgil Garnett Thomson
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. — Oscar Levant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. — Lily Tomlin
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. — Anon
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower
Famous Quotes on Intelligence
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle (Famous Quotes)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — André Gide
I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. — Aryeh Frimer
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. —Cale Yarborough
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. — Charles F. Kettering
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. — Edith Sitwell
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. — Dame Edna Everage
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. — Thomas Szasz
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. — Ellen Goodman
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Ellen Parr
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. —Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. — Gordon R. Dickson
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. — Lily Tomlin
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. — Erica Jong
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel (Best Famous Quotes)
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. — Oscar Wilde
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