Quotes Tagged "life"

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.