author Quotes

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

• 1212
• wisdom

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

• 925
• love

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

• 905
• dreams

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

• 754
• inspirational

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

• 486
• Dreams

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

• 457
• education

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

• 406
• courage

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

• 403
• motivational

Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts.

• 394
• faith

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.

• 389
• Actions

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

• 380
• life

Where words fail, music speaks.

• 353
• Music

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

• 324
• Motivational

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

• 319
• courage

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

• 308
• soul

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

• 299
• life

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

• 292
• motivational

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

• 282
• friendship

The world is a tradgedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

• 282
• perception

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

• 271
• love

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

• 257
• discovery

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

• 257
• careful

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Jan Morris prefers this for himself.

• 255
• self

The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

• 250
• Habits

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

• 247
• blame

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

• 243
• integrity

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

• 233
• assume

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

• 233
• motivational

No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

• 232
• Kindness

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

• 230
• darkness

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

• 229
• comedy

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come. Ziglar on selling.

• 227
• inspirational

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

• 225
• courage

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Daring to Adventure

• 225
• carpe

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

• 224
• emotions

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.

• 222
• greatness

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been."

• 220
• wisdom

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

• 219
• durability

Arrogance is the camouflage of insecurity.

• 216
• arrogance

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

• 215
• wisdom

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

• 215
• Love

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.

• 213
• inspirational

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

• 213
• Truth

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

• 210
• Character

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

• 209
• positive

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

• 208
• improvement

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.

• 207
• life

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

• 198
• mindset

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

• 197
• motivational

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

• 193
• motivational