Success

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. - Robert Kiyosaki

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. - Smiley Blanton

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success. - George Horace Lorimer

To attain ‘success’ without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an impostor anxiously awaiting exposure. - Nathaniel Branden

Today we define success by publicity and bank accounts. But that's not really success at all. Don't believe the hype. Success is ephemeral. You have to define it yourself. - Chris Noth

Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit, clouds big with rain hang low. So good men humbly bear success, nor overweening grow. - Bhartrhari

True success is the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. - Deepak Chopra

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. - Henry Ford

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions. - Kobo Abe

Success is not measured by how well you fulfil the expectations of others, but y how honestly you live up to your own expectations. - Linda Principle

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success. - Evan Williams

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It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveller who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot. - Paul Theroux

Sometimes the easiest way to get through today, is to simply have something to look forward to tomorrow. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds. - Martin Luther

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. - Anatole France

Perspective is everything. You only paint the picture what your mind chooses to see. - Unknown

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. - Edison Haines

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. - Carroll Bryant

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. - Frank L. Gaines

Sometimes, I just agree with people so that they can stop talking. - Unknown

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. - M. C. Escher

Mediocrity bears but one flower – ENVY. - Charles William Day

Sometimes, pain helps you to rise up even stronger. - Unknown

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Humour

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her - not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her. - Meg Cabot

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. - Laurell K. Hamilton

How we all want so badly to divorce reality, but that bitch just won’t sign the papers. - Christopher Poindexter

No matter how big a hammer you use, you can’t pound common sense into stupid people. - Unknown

Sometimes, I wonder what happened to people who ask me for directions. - Unknown

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. - Charlotte Brontë

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts. - Unknown

Children go through life with same tact as tornado. - Charlie Chan

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

Few men are admired by their servants. - Michel de Montaigne

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. - Holly Black

Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson

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Life quotes

Once in a while, it really hits people that they don’t have to experience life in the way they have been told to. - Unknown

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir

People meet; that is well. They part; that is well, too. Life is life. - Octave Mirbeau

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love. - Lewis Black

The day you realize that complaining will not get you anywhere, that will be the day your life will begin to look better. - E. Broome

The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humour and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything! - Unknown

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer

The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavour. - Sherman Alexie

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. - Bradley Whitford

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. - Andre Gide

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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have. - H.G. Wells

The most beautiful experience is the mysterious. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe is as good as dead. His eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. - Arthur Koestler

Sometimes the best thing to do is be silent and watch how things play out … saves you from unnecessary arguments. - Unknown

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. - Ivan Panin

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies. - Ivan Panin

A man's enemies are those he should endeavour first to make his friends. - Norman MacDonald

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. - Unknown

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation. - Amadeus Wolfe

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. - Abraham Lincoln

Storms make trees take deeper roots. - Dolly Parton

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Smile - Quotes

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom. - Hosea Ballou

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. - Unknown

A smile means a lot more than laughter because it is a true reflection of emotions. Laughter is just a by-product of humour. - Tiela Selepe

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it’s the greatest feeling in the world. - Mandy Moore

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. - Chris Hart

Always smile. Life isn’t always full of reason to smile. But your smile itself is a reason for others to smile too. - Unknown

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. - Lord Byron

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. - Arian Foster

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers. - Maya Angelou

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. - Andy Rooney

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life. - Yoko Ono

Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. - Unknown

Smiling has the power of relaxing the mind, delighting the heart, boosting the immune system, slowing the heartbeat and breathing rate. - Dr T.P.Chia

Smiling speaks to people charmingly without saying a word. - Dr T.P.Chia

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong. - Pamela Anderson

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - Carmelo Anthony

Oxymoronic Quotes

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism. - Samuel Butler

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room. - Dr. Strangelove

He hasn't a single redeeming vice. - Oscar Wilde

Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. - Samuel Beckett

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. - Socrates

I made a wrong mistake. - Yogi Berra

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. - Edgar Allan Poe

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. - Yogi Berra

Happiness

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

My friends’ happiness forms part of my own. - Pedro Alexis Tabensky

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Acceptance is the key to everything. - Michael J. Fox

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists – merely in the imagination. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. - Andre Gide

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere. - Daniel Gilbert

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Past happiness augments present wretchedness. - Publilius Syrus

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. - Leo Tolstoy

That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their un-escapable social destiny. - Aldous Huxley

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A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. - L. Frank Baum

A man who is ready to converse but has nothing to say worth hearing, is a well without water; he that is rich in knowledge but reserved is a well without a bucket. - John Thornton

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite. - Barak Obama

If we want good work from others or wish to accomplish anything ourselves, it will never do to harbour a doubt as to the result of an enterprise. - Nellie Bly

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. - William Ellery Channing

Don’t wait for things in your life to change before you feel better. Feel better now and watch the things in your life change. - Unknown

You need power when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough to get things done. - Charlie Chaplin

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity. - Unknown

Sometimes the eyes can say more than the mouth. - Unknown

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. - Horace

To be great is to be misunderstood. - Oscar Wilde

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Food for Thought

There is a sad propensity in our fallen nature to listen to the retailers of petty scandal. With many, it is the spice of conversation, the exhilarating gas of their minds. Without any intention of doing essential injury to a neighbor, a careless remark, relative to some minor fault of his, may be seized by a babbler, and, as it passes through the babbling tribe, each one adds to its bulk, and gives its color a darker hue, until it assumes the magnitude and blackness of base slander. Few are without visible faults – most persons are sometimes inconsistent. Upon these faults and mistakes petty scandal delights to feast. - Henry F. Kletzing & Elmer L. Kletzing

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe. - Ban Ki-moon

I've seen weapons of mass destruction in our cities. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction, racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons. - Dennis Kucinich

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Humour

It’s not that diabetes, heart disease and obesity runs in your family. It’s that no one runs in your family. - Unknown

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages. - Michel Houellebecq

Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you’re ugly. - Betty White

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do. - Johnny Carson

Marriage does not unite two people; it entangles them. - Abraham Miller

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. - Phyllis Diller

One hundred percent of divorces start with a marriage. - Mark Gungor

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. - Lee Mildon

Just remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off. - Unknown

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. - Stephen King

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. - Michael Crichton

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Unknown

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Love Quotes

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness. - Sergei Lukyanenko

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

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it … - Nicholas Sparks

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. - Mahatma Gandhi

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles

Love is a master key which opens the gate of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance. - Richard Garnett

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to be true. - Unknown

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Let your anger, hurt, and problems of the day go down with the sun each evening. Let joy, happiness and hope rise in your heart with the sun each morning. Be at peace with yourself. Be at peace with the world. - Unknown

Nobody ever really knows how much anyone else is hurting. You could be standing next to somebody who is completely broken and you wouldn’t even know it. That’s why you should always try to be kind. - Unknown

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you. I am I. - Osho

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think. The wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang Po

Sometimes you just have to turn around, give a smile, throw the match, and burn that freaking bridge. - Unknown

Even in the midst of life’s many storms. We have the capacity to stand in the centre of our own peace. - Unknown

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends. - Benjamin Franklin   

A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant. - Unknown

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong. - Benjamin Franklin

Make no judgement where you have no compassion. - Anne McCaffrey

Sometimes, you have to love people from a distance. - Robert Tew

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Oxymoronic Quotes

A best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand. - Nancy Werlin

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can’t. - Unknown

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. - Charles F. Kettering

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. - T. S. Eliot

Always look beyond what you can see - Mark A. Cooper

Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else. - Alison Boulter

An original artist is unable to copy. So, he has only to copy in order to be original. - Jean Cocteau

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. - Stephen Fry

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. - Rufus Wainwright

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. - Dan Brown

Free advice is often overpriced. - E. C McKenzie

Success

Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you. - Jon M. Huntsman

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. - Isaac Asimov

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. - Mario Cuomo

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic. - ICE-T

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. - Arthur Helps

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

True success requires passion and a vision. Not just dollars and sense. - Jack Garrison

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm. - Malcolm Forbes

The successful draw us up to their level; the unsuccessful down to theirs. - Charles Edward Jerningham

Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies. - Ernie J. Zelinski

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down. - Lin YuTang

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The difference between a wise and foolish man is this – the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks. - William Scot Downey

The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. - Michael Korda

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan

Sometimes tears are a sign of unspoken happiness … and a smile is a sign of silent pain. - Unknown

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. - Charles Dickens

Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes – never! - Mikhail Bulgakov

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. - Roger Bacon

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug Floyd

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln

You have to have a darkness for the dawn to come. - Harrison Ford

Optimism is life – Pessimism, slow suicide. - William Crosbie Hunter

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