Famous Quotes

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

To Succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire

Let life happen to you. Believe me, life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

What’s done is done.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Genius is divine perseverance.
Woodrow T. Wilson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
Charles Bukowski

You may not realise it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

Life doesn’t imitate art, imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

Some days you’re the bug. Some days you’re the windshield.
Price Cobb

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

Life: it is about the gift, not the package it comes it.
Dennis P. Coastea Jr

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet

Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Cherralea Morgen

never complain and never explain.
BBenjamin Disraeli

Stand up and walk out of your history.
Phil McGraw

If you only do what you know you can do – you never do very much.
Tom Krause

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves nether.
Benjamin Franklin

Accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Epicurus

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
Proveb

There are days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.
Robert Orben

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Desmond Tutu

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Standford

Life is simple, it’s just not easy.
Anonymous

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life is just one dammed thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Anonymous

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable … but through it all I still know … to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Issac Asimov

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.
Alex Tan

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Byrd Baggett

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More

The steeper the mountain, the harder the climb, the better the view from the finishing line.
Anonymous

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Everything is OK in the end. If it’s not OK, then it’s not the end.
Anonymous

Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
Kathryn Carpenter

Bad times have a scientific value. There are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Proverb

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Sam Lefkowitz

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Andre Gide

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
Jewish proverb

It just wouldn’t be a picnic without the ants.
Anonymous

When it is darkest men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
African proverb

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
Morris Mandel

There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Woody Hayes

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you throught optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Jennifer Yane

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
Anonymous

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Bill Lyon

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Robert Gallagher

It’s just life. Just live it.
Terri Guillemets

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Robert Brault

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian proverb

Water which is too pure has no fish.
Ts Ken tan

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Walt West

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

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that … there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers and criminals.
Charles Kuralt

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Never be afraid to try; remember: amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
Anonymous

The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
Aarnold H. Glasgow

Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Matthew 6:34

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau

in school, you’re taught the lesson and then you’re given the test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed.
Georges Clemenceau

You can’t turn back the clock but you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy and to love.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Failures are like skinned knees: painful but superficial.
H. Ross Perot

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
Latin proverb

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
Mark Twain

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent

Turn difficulties into learning opportunities.
Albert Einstein

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
Hildegard Knef

You can’t have everything .. where would you put it?
Steven Wright

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson

Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.
Robert Eliot

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Rumi, Daylight

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

When life looks like it’s falling apart, it may just be falling in place.
Beverly Solomon

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire

If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Cavett Robert

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m having a party!
Betsy Canas Garmon

Sometimes life’s hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.
J Andrew Helt

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Anonymous

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
Samuel Adams

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.
Seneca

Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honour bright.
William Shakespeare

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

Consider the postage stamp … it secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs … one step at a time.
Joe Girard

A does of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Proverb

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
Thomas Holdcroft

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trals.
Chinese proverb

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
Anonymous

It is advisable that a person know at least three things: where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
John Ruskin

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
Oliver Goldsmith

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

All of us could take a lesson from the weather; it pays no attention to criticism.
Anonymous

You miss one hundred per cent of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humour can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant … and smile through the day.
Ann Landers

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realise the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.
Jonathan Winters

I have a simple philosophy: fill what’s empty; empty what’s full; scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt

You life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Suzanne Weyn

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Doug Horton

Life is ‘trying things to see if they work’.
Ray Bradbury

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, ‘Maybe life isn’t for everyone.’
Larry Brown

Make the most of your regrets … To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David

I’ve learned that when you harbour bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
Andy Rooney

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Issac Asimov

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Olivier

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Failure is only the  opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely. 
Henry Ford

Turn your face to the sun and the shadowns fall behind you.
Maori proverb

One of the best lessons you can learn if life is to master how to remain calm.
Catherine Pulsifer

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Proverb

Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

Experience: that most brutal of teachers.
C.S Lewis

The score never interested me, only the game.
Mae West

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

Tough times never last. Tough people do.
Robert Schuller

Shit happens
American proverb

In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need it.
Napoleon Bonaparte