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Life - Quotes

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. - Unknown

Every time you subtract Negative from your life, you make room for more Positive! - Unknown

Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better! - Nehali Lalwani

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder. - John McLeod

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. - Unknown

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. - Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a beach. Sometimes you end up with a little sand in your pants. - Unknown

Nothing in life promised except death. - Kanye West

A useless life is an early death. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must live as he can. - Maxwell Anderson

We often miss the end of life by having no object before us. - Henry F. Kletzing

Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. - C. C. Lewis

If you are good, life is good. - Roald Dahl

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. - Latin Proverb

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot

Life doesn’t retreat. - Dan Simmons

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have not lost all when you have life. - Edward Counsel

Life thunders on. - Lola Ridge

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Mind - Quotes

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes

The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. - Unknown

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle

The human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. - Samuel Richardson

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. - Isaac Asimov

The idle mind knows not what it wants. - Ennius

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

The knowing mind is active in attending, selecting and interpreting; but it must attend to, select from and interpret what is presented to it; and therefore, it must be passive as well as active. - Unknown

The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through. - Sam Shepard

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. - James Russell Lowell

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. - St. Augustine

The mind grows by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

The mind has an extraordinary power to create illusion through belief through escapes, through dogmas. - J. Krishnamurti

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlour remains clean. - Henry Ward Beecher

The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. - Michel Montaigne

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. - David Mamet

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. - John Milton

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost everything; if ill-packed, next to nothing. - Augustus William Hare & Julius Charles Hare

You - Quotes

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. - Wallace D. Wattles

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is – an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colourful YOU. - Mandy Hale

One day it just clicks. You realize what’s important and what isn’t. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you’ve come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that you would never recover. And you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become. - Unknown

Sometimes life can be very painful. It gets complicated at the worst of times and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. But you have to keep trying. You have to push through all that hurts; work past all the painful memories. Because sometimes the things that hurt you the most are that things that make you the strongest. A life without experience is no life at all. Never stop yourself from living, from loving, from hoping and dreaming. You deserve it. - Unknown

Win / Winning / Winners- Quotes

A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

A winner is someone who recognizes his talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Larry Bird

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. - Arthur Ashe

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field. - Carl Deuker

He who dares wins. - American Proverb

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner. - Walter Payton

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It’s impossible for me to applaud your successes when my hands are too busy patting myself on the back. But if I clap for you, and you pat my back, we can both feel like winners. - Jarod Kintz

It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. - Paul “Bear” Bryant

My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win. - Zig Ziglar

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. - Dough Williams

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. - Mark Gorman

Our skill is not shown in winning the game with good cards, but to make the best of whatever cards are placed in our hands. - G. Forster

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. - Donald Trump

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you're behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Arthur Ashe

Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner. - Lady Gaga

The difference in winning and losing is most often ... not quitting. - Walt Disney

The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!! - Unknown

The game itself is bigger than the winning. - Dejan Stojanovic

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance. - Pete Abrams

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. - Pele

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali

We like winning. We've tried both and winning is better. - Lane Kirkland

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. - Paul Brown

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics. - Lance Armstrong

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks. - Pete Rose

Winners are people who aren’t afraid to take a chance now and then. Losers sit around and wait for the odds to improve. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting. - Aldous Huxley

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. - Bryce Courtenay

Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. - Amby Burfoot

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. - Roger Staubach

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Dianne Feinstein

Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. - Phil Jackson

You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge. - Ronald E. McNair

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. - Napoleon Hill

Love - Quotes

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Wilder

Grasping at love is like trying to retain a handful of sand; the tighter one squeezes, the more sand escapes. - Corvus

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. - Charles Dickens

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. - Katherine Mansfield

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Theresa

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one. - Unknown

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love. - Igor Stravinsky

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. - Khalil Gibran

I love it when I see old people together, because it makes me believe that true LOVE exists. - Unknown

If you have to convince someone you’re right for them, then they aren’t right for you. - Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Life - Quotes

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. - Cecil B. De Mille

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. - Don Williams

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

There is nothing more grey, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. - Jaron Lanier

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. - Alan Watts

Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don’t take life for granted. - Unknown

To grant all a man’s wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. - P.B. Kerr

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Proverbs / Maxims / Axioms...

A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. - African Proverb

Some things are better left unsaid. - Unknown

After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T. Cogan

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows. - Australian Aborigine Saying

Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer

A clean mouth and an honest hand will take a man through any land. - German Proverb

Pleasing ware is half sold. - George Herbert

When the iron is hot, strike. - John Heywood

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. - W. S. GIlbert

Everyone gets their just deserts. - Unknown

Don't be led around by the nose. - Unknown

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. - Spanish Proverb

Don’t do things that kill you. - Unknown

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. - John Heywood

New roads: new ruts. - G. K. Chesterton

All’s well that ends well. - John Heywood

What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight. - French Proverb

Every head is a world. - Cuban Proverb

Little by little one walks far. - Peruvian

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. - Chinese Proverb

Speak little, do much. - Benjamin Franklin

Every man for himself. - John Heywood

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. - Maori Proverb

Play the hand you're dealt. - Jawahareal Nehru

A watched pot never boils. - Unknown

Truth - Quotes

Most people don’t really want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe us the truth. - Unknown

Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. - William Osler

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. - Henry Ward Beecher

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon

No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united. - Fluke Greville

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. - Henry Wad Beecher

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen

Not everything that's true needs to be said. - Cassandra Clare

Nothing endures except truth. - Luc de Clapiers

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Our feelings often colour the truth. - Edward Counsel

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Marcus Tullius Cicero