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1,000 Best Quotes Of All Time: Famous Inspiration (2023)

1. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha


2. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”


3. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.


4. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs


5. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”


6. “Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.” —Unknown


7. “Beware of the person of one book.” - Thomas Aquinas


8. “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” —Paul Pearsall


9. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” —Brené Brown


10. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” —Unknown


11. “Friends are the family we choose.” —Jennifer Aniston


12. “Use your fear… it can take you to the place where you store your courage.”


13. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ ―A.C. Benson


14. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth


15. “At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.” ―Frida Kahlo


16. “The art of multitasking must become a habit to be enjoyed and nothing else.”


17. “If you think someone could use a friend. Be one.” ―Unknown


18. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.


19. “Go the extra mile, there’s no-one on it” – Grant Cardone


20. “Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”


21. “Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all.” ―Unknown


22. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”


23. “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” —J.K. Rowling


24. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” ―Unknown


25. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.


26. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”


27. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”


28. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius


29. “Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.” —Ann Ruth Schabacker


30. “What good is success if you’re not willing to share it?”


31. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boose


32. “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” —Ingrid Bergman (October 1990)


33. “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” —Tibetan Proverb


34. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin


35. “Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda


36. “What we think, we become.”


37. “I want to be remembered as the one who tried.” ―Dr. Dorothy Height


38. “Haste in every business brings failures.”


39. “Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”


40. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi


41. “Most people can talk without listening. Very few can listen without talking.”


42. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”


43. “Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize” ―”Wake Me Up,” Avicii


44. “Don’t be afraid to be afraid.” —Maurice Chevalier (May 1959)


45. “Do, or do not. There is no “try”.


46. “When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”


47. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran


48. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” – Mark Twain


49. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.


50. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche


51. “A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” ―Unknown


52. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” ―Ross Simmonds


53. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi


54. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”


55. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglas


56. “The longer you’re in the game, the hotter you are.”


57. “The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.” —Walter Anderson


58. “Collect Moments, Not Things.”


59. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe


60. “Do the right thing even when no one is looking.” ―Unknown


61. “I want to make memories all over the world”


62. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey


63. “I can and I will. Watch me.” ―Carrie Green


64. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe


65. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela


66. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”


67. “Action is the antidote to despair.” —Joan Baez


68. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.


69. “Time is money.” ―Benjamin Franklin


70. “Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you.” —Queen Latifah


71. “Children need models rather than critics.” — Joseph Joubert, French moralist


72. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.


73. Don’t try to be everything to everyone. Be everything to someone.


74. “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” —Charles Kettering


75. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.


76. “Someday is not a day of the week.”


77. “Knowledge is power.” – Sir Francis Bacon


78. “H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.” —


79. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”


80. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare


81. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” —J.K. Rowling


82. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too” – Anne Frank


83. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ―Kurt Cobain


84. “You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough” – Mae West


85. “Better slip with foot than tongue.”


86. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.”


87. “God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.”


88. “The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”


89. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.


90. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.”


91. “The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do”


92. “You may delay, but time will not.”


93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt


94. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” —Jon Bon Jovi (January 2007)


95. “Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”


96. “Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” ―Walter Brunell


97. “If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.”


98. “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” ―Frank Ocean


99. “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” ―Jack Welch


100. “Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” —David Ogden Stiers


101. No road is long with good company. ~ Turkish Proverb


102. “Impossible is just an opinion.” —Paulo Coelho


103. “Always take the scenic road.”


104. Do you feel lucky, punk?


105. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney


106. “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”


107. “Time goes, you say, Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”


108. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln


109. Surround yourself With motivated people


110. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ―Thomas A. Edison


111. “If the thing that I wanted most had happened … I wouldn’t be where I am.”


112. “Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.”


113. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”


114. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”


115. “Your fear of looking stupid is making you look stupid.”


116. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller


117. “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.”


118. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb


119. “Time is money” – Benjamin Franklin


120. “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” —Harry Ruby


121. “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”


122. “I still close my eyes and go home—I can always draw from that.” —Dolly Parton


123. “Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” —John Lennon


124. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” – Elbert Hubbard


125. I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.


126. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar


127. “Practice makes perfect.” – Vince Lombardi


128. “If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.”


129. “Be silly, be honest, be kind.’ ―Ralph Waldo Emerson


130. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.


131. “Time goes faster the more hollow it is.”


132. Create a positive environment


133. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”


134. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.


135. “Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”


136. If you build it, they will come.


137. “I never lose. Either I win or learn.” ―Nelson Mandela


138. “Every day women and men become legends.” ―”Glory,” John Legend and Common


139. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi


140. “Well done is better than well said.”


141. “My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”


142. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller


143. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”


144. “Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.” - Carl Sagan


145. “The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.”


146. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”


147. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”


148. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” ―Unknown


149. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


150. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky


151. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”


152. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”


153. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”


154. “What is now proved was once only imagined.” —William Blake


155. “Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator.” ―Unknown


156. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.


157. “Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”


158. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” ―Henry David Thoreau


159. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison


160. “I’m a multitasking procrastinator. I can put off all kinds of things all at once.”


161. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ―Ayn Rand


162. “An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.”


163. “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese”


164. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”


165. “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”


166. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”


167. “People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why.”


168. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone


169. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”


170. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.


171. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars–I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”


172. “The best protection any woman can have… is courage.”


173. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” - Fran Lebowitz


174. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”


175. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.


176. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain


177. “Peace begins with a smile.”


178. “Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage”


179. “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” —Sydney J. Harris


180. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” —Kate Summers


181. “No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt


182. “Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” ―Baz Luhrmann


183. “Travel is the healthiest addiction”


184. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”


185. “With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.”


186. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”


187. “Punctuality is the thief of time”


188. “Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”


189. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”


190. “Time always exposes what you mean to someone.” ―Unknown


191. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney


192. “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.” ―Steven Wright


193. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”


194. “Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.”


195. “You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” —Unknown


196. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” – Gloria Steinem


197. “The world was hers for the reading.” - Betty Smith


198. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it” – Charles Swindoll


199. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” —Zig Ziglar


200. “Begin with the end in mind.”


201. “The pursuit of happiness can ironically undermine well-being.”


202. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”


203. “If a guy doesn’t like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.”


204. “True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach


205. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.


206. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi (June 1992)


207. “Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” —Mark Twain (November 1933)


208. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.


209. “Begin anywhere.” ―John Cage


210. “Life’s too mysterious; don’t take it serious.”


211. “All our dreams will come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney


212. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”


213. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.


214. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.”


215. “Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.” ―Unknown


216. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”


217. “Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask.”


218. “Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.”


219. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay


220. “When you value people, you give them freedom.”


221. “Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.” —Lincoln Steffens (February 1965)


222. “A negative mind will never give you a positive life.” ―Unknown


223. “Even a small star shines in the darkness.” —Finnish proverb


224. “If there is no wind, row.” ―Latin Proverb


225. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”


226. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” —Albert Einstein (May 1970)


227. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington


228. “FOMO creates suffering, yet those who suffer, have FOMO.”


229. “The best way out is always through.”


230. “Fortune favors the bold” – Virgil


231. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”


232. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”


233. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”


234. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” ―The Godfather


235. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” – C.S. Lewis


236. “What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”


237. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”


238. “Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.”


239. “Who sows virtue reaps honor.”


240. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” —Albert Einstein”


241. “Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival.” —W. Edwards Demin


242. “You always gain by giving love.” Reese Witherspoon


243. Life is like a box of chocolates.


244. “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.” ―Marcus Zusak


245. “After all this time? Always.” ―J.K. Rowling


246. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs


247. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” ―Albert Einstein


248. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”


249. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.”


250. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”


251. “Nothing will work unless you do.”


252. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ―Abraham Lincoln


253. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ―Mother Teresa


254. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote


255. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.


256. “Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back.” —George Skolsky


257. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


258. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”


259. “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.”


260. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ―Chris Grosser


261. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill


262. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.


263. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett


264. “You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.”


265. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.” —Winston Churchill


266. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.”


267. “Don’t put the cart before the horse.” – Cicero


268. “All glory comes from daring to begin.” —Eugene F. Ware


269. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” – John Wooden


270. “No gains without pains.”


271. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” ―Lalah Deliah


272. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”


273. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” —Bonnie Prudden


274. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” —Phyllis Diller (November 2016)


275. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.”


276. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have” – Thomas Jefferson


277. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” - Garrison Keillor


278. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb


279. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars-I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”


280. “Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”


281. “Your kids are overwhelmingly fantastic.”


282. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later” – Og Mandino


283. “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” ―Buddha


284. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.


285. “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”


286. In God we trust; all others bring data.


287. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”


288. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”


289. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich


290. “It’s not that we have a little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”


291. “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self control — these three alone lead to power.”


292. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde


293. “There’s no job better than another.. Every job is worthwhile”


294. “Be a fruit loop in a world of Cheerios.” ―Unknown


295. “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” — Unknown


296. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.”


297. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”


298. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama


299. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” —Gen. George S. Patton


300. “People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent.”


301. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn


302. Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?


303. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain


304. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius


305. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”


306. “Children are our most valuable resource.”


307. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou


308. “Happiness is an inside job.”


309. “There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away” - Emily Dickinson


310. Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse


311. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt


312. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” ―Gary Vaynerchuk


313. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates


314. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi


315. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”


316. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald


317. “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” - Fernando Pessoa


318. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ―John C. Maxwell


319. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” ―Goethe


320. “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” - Holbrook Jackson


321. “You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle


322. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”


323. “What you seem to be, be really.”


324. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” —Maxwell Maltz


325. “Right is right, even if no one else does it.”


326. “Nothing is hopeless that is right.”


327. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”


328. “Life is short, and the world is wide.”


329. “Let’s get lost.”


330. ‘We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” ―Bruce Lee


331. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin


332. “Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently.”


333. “Lost Time is never found again.”


334. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” ―Nelson Mandela


335. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”


336. “It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.”


337. “It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What is tough is being good every day.”


338. “Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” ―Unknown


339. “It’s OK to outgrow people who don’t grow. Grow tall anyways.” ―Unknown


340. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” ―Unknown


341. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”


342. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”


343. “One must work with time and not against it.“


344. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou


345. “It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.”


346. “If you can’t reach your destination by one road, try another.” —Elsa Schiaparelli


347. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin.


348. “So little time and so little to do.”


349. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”


350. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt


351. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve” – Napoleon Hill


352. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius


353. Play it again, Sam.


354. “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” —Tom Stoppard (August 1983)


355. “People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu


356. “Best things in life aren’t things.”


357. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller


358. “You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” ―Unknown


359. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.”


360. “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”


361. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”


362. “A true Friend is the best Possession.”


363. “It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” ―Epictetus


364. I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille.


365. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford


366. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.


367. “To scale, do things that do not scale”


368. “When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” —Walter Lippmann


369. “You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”


370. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”


371. “Failure is success if we learn from it.”


372. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”


373. “Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.”


374. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”


375. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”


376. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.


377. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Abraham Lincoln


378. “Be happy, but never satisfied.”


379. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”


380. Time waits for no one. – Folklore.


381. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”


382. “A right Heart exceeds all.”


383. “If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”


384. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”


385. “You have to be odd to be number one” – Dr. Seuss


386. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”


387. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”


388. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”


389. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” - Orhan Pamuk


390. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”


391. “One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win.” ―Kylie Francis


392. “Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” —Alfred North Whitehead


393. “Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo


394. “You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.”


395. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”


396. “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.” – Benjamin Disraeli


397. “You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” ―Unknown


398. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” —Elmer G. Leterman


399. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”


400. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps


401. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan


402. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” - Diane Duane


403. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”


404. The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.


405. “Haste makes Waste.”


406. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh


407. Why don't you come up and see me sometime?


408. “Goodbye, blue Monday.” ―Kurt Vonnegut


409. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J.K. Rowling


410. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”


411. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” ―Estée Lauder


412. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”


413. “Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.”


414. “Nothing is impossible, the world itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn


415. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi


416. “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”


417. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.


418. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”


419. Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers. ~ Niti Majethia


420. “Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”


421. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil


422. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough”


423. “Where your attention goes, your time goes.”


424. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”


425. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare


426. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love” – Bob Marley


427. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”


428. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” ―Unknown


429. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom” – Vincent van Gogh


430. “Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.”


431. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.” ―Unknown


432. “It’s easier to beg forgiveness than get permission.”


433. “He who laughs most learns best.” —John Cleese


434. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities” – Robert H. Schuller


435. “Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” ―Sheryl Sandberg


436. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain


437. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” – Charlie Chaplin


438. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.


439. Punctuality is the thief of time. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.


440. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”


441. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.”


442. “Don’t be afraid to do something big.”


443. “Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden


444. “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” —Malcolm X


445. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius


446. “The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.”


447. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” ―Helen Keller


448. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”


449. “The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”


450. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”


451. “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” - Betty Smith


452. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”


453. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” ―Ken Poirot


454. “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”


455. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs


456. “A person without regrets is a nincompoop.” —Mia Farrow


457. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”


458. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”


459. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”


460. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller


461. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn


462. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”


463. “Every second is of infinite value.”


464. “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” - Logan Pearsall Smith


465. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”


466. “Monday c’est Mon Day.” —Unknown


467. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt


468. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Plato


469. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn


470. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey


471. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”


472. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” ―William Shakespeare


473. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”


474. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi.


475. “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”


476. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Alan Kay, computer scientist


477. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” —Tom Stoppard


478. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”


479. “Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotes,” 2013


480. “Hold the vision, trust the process.” —Unknown


481. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” ―Paulo Coelho


482. “Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.” —Lauren Oliver


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


484. “I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”


485. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” —Elin Nordegren


486. Eighty percent of success is showing up.


487. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra


488. “Hope will never be silent.”


489. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt


490. “There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” —Amy Poehler


491. “A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”


492. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”


493. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot


494. “Even the worst haircut eventually grows out.” —Lisa Kogan


495. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.


496. “There are no working hours for leaders.”


497. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain


498. “The sky isn’t the limit—the sky has no limit.” —Sarah Barker


499. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem


500. “He who angers you conquers you.”


501. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”


502. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” —Jon Bon Jovi


503. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”


504. “The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.” ―Nishan Panwar


505. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” ―Abraham Lincoln


506. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”


507. “Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”


508. “Not all those who wander are lost.”


509. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”


510. “When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.”


511. “The mind is like Velcro for negative experiences, and Teflon for positive ones.”


512. “No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.”—Will Durant (January 1941)


513. “It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.”


514. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu


515. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”


516. You can’t lose something you never had. ~ Kate Hudson


517. “Dream big and dare to fail” – Norman Vaughan


518. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” —Jonathan Winters


519. “When life gives you lemons, made lemonade”- Elbert Hubbard


520. “I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.”


521. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”


522. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”


523. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”


524. “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”


525. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.


526. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”


527. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got have enough nerve.” —J.K. Rowling (November 2003)


528. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”


529. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” ―Richard Branson


530. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”


531. “Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.”


532. “I guess there are never enough books.” - John Steinbeck


533. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” ―Joan Rivers


534. “A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.”


535. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey


536. “I didn’t know how to do fancy.”


537. “Beauty, without expression, tires.”


538. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”


539. “If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”


540. “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”


541. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt


542. Come back, Shane.


543. “Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.”


544. “I’m alive, motivated and ready to slay the day #MONSLAY.” —Unknown


545. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey


546. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale


547. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins


548. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ―George Bernard Shaw


549. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray


550. “Travel is my therapy.” – Travel Quote


551. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.


552. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach


553. “Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.” ―Unknown


554. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale


555. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” ―Pema Chodron


556. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali


557. “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.”


558. “It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.”


559. “Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.”


560. Celebrate your small wins


561. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost


562. “You never know what you can do until you try.” ―William Cobbett


563. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”


564. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” ―Arabic proverb


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


566. “Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?” ―Komal Kapoor


567. “Make today the day you learn something new.” –Unknown


568. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown


569. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.


570. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”


571. “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” - Saul Bellow


572. “When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you.”


573. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.


574. “I’m still learning.” ―Michelangelo


575. “Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”


576. “Everything you can imagine is real.”―Pablo Picasso


577. “You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.” —Joseph Mayer


578. “Ocean air, salty hair.”


579. “Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet”


580. “It might not be easy, but it’ll be worth it.” ―Unknown


581. “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.– H.G. Wells


582. The first duty of love is to listen. ~ Paul Tillich


583. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem


584. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ―Suzy Kassem


585. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” – Hans Christian Anderson


586. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” – Harry Potter


587. Pain will leave you, when you let go. ~ Jeremy Aldana


588. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”


589. “Be thankful for what you have—you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey


590. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


591. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy


592. ‘Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.” ―Unknown


593. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”


594. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.”


595. Houston, we've got a problem.


596. Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides


597. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”


598. “It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.”


599. The little I know I owe to my ignorance.


600. “When you judge another, you do not define them; you define yourself.”


601. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney”


602. “What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”


603. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy” – Dalai Lama


604. “I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes


605. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand


606. “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” ―Marie Forleo


607. “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” —Ella Woodword


608. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”


609. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald


610. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”


611. “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” ―Unknown


612. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” —Albert Einstein


613. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt


614. “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,


615. “It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” ―Joyce Meyers


616. “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” —Maggie Kuhn


617. “Be like a postage stamp — stick to one thing until you get there.”


618. “You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.”


619. Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. ~ Roy Bennett


620. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.


621. “You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past.”


622. “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”


623. “What is coming is better than what is gone.” ―Unknown


624. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”


625. “So many books, so little time.”


626. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”


627. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”


628. “The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.” —Angelina Jolie


629. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”


630. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss


631. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn


632. “I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have.”


633. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”


634. “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”


635. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”


636. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”


637. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation” – Herman Melville


638. “This nostalgia is kind of ironic because a lot of people at the time hated us.”


639. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”


640. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” ―Mike Murdock


641. “God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”


642. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair


643. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand


644. “Today, I really have only one word for you. … And that word is: ‘Internet.'”


645. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”


646. “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” – William Penn


647. “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is.” ―Unknown


648. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


649. “We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists.”


650. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir


651. “When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.” ―Unknown


652. “Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect.” —Eleanor C. Wood


653. “Don’t be stomping on ants when you have elephants to feed.”


654. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton


655. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” ―Carol Burnett


656. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller


657. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.”


658. “Quitters never win. Winners never quit!” —Dr. Irene C. Kassorla


659. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein


660. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.


661. “If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.”


662. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”


663. “To do two things at once is to do neither.”


664. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez


665. “Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”


666. “Go where you feel most alive.”


667. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” —Helen Keller


668. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” —Joss Whedon


669. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses


670. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt


671. Eat, Pray, Love


672. “Your only limit is your mind.” ―Unknown


673. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney


674. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” ―George Burns


675. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”


676. “If you don’t place your foot on the rope, you’ll never cross the chasm.” —Liz Smith


677. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ―Jim Rohn


678. “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” ―Estée Lauder


679. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” ―Brian Vaszily


680. “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” —Judith Martin (September 1997)


681. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci


682. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin.


683. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse


684. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.


685. “Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make it a doozy.” —Billie Jean King


686. “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”


687. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”


688. “Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”


689. “You can do anything you set your mind to.” ―Benjamin Franklin


690. “A good book is an event in my life.” - Stendhal


691. Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!


692. “Practice makes progress, not perfect.” ―Unknown


693. “A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.”


694. “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel


695. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche


696. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show.”


697. “Reader’s Digest 40th Anniversary Treasury,” 1961


698. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great” – John D. Rockefeller


699. “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle


700. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take”


701. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke Ellington (October 1984)


702. “When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.” —


703. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ―Tim Ferriss


704. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.


705. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?”


706. “After 30, a body has a mind of its own.” —Bette Midler (June 1982)


707. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth


708. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.”


709. “Creativity is intelligence having fun” – Albert Einstein


710. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”


711. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” —Anthony Brandt


712. “We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.”


713. “I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!”


714. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”


715. “​​You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou


716. “Embrace obstacles to build the resilience required to live a purpose driven life.”


717. “I just wanna let them know that they didn’t break me.” ―Pretty in Pink


718. “Beach please.”


719. “A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet


720. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”


721. “Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” - Gary Paulsen


722. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria Rilke


723. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”


724. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back


725. “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow


726. “You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.”


727. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ―Pablo Picasso


728. “Slow and steady wins the race.” – Robert Lloyd


729. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”


730. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is” – Vince Lombardi


731. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” – Fred R. Barnard


732. “Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.”


733. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” - Mortimer J. Adler


734. “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” —Ann Landers


735. “In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.” —Bernie Siegel


736. “What hurts you blesses you.” ―Rumi


737. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”


738. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar


739. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.


740. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”


741. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”


742. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky (October 1999)


743. Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. ~ Ginni Rometty


744. “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.”


745. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”


746. “Take your time. There’s no rush to be good or renowned.”


747. “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” ―Stanley McChrystal


748. “Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.” —Barbara Corcoran


749. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.


750. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”


751. “No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.”


752. “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”


753. “Only the paranoid survive.” —Andy Grove


754. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.


755. “He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”


756. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” —Buddha


757. “You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.”


758. Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles.


759. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn


760. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Cicero


761. “Without darkness, there are no dreams.” —Karla Kuban


762. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”


763. “The best revenge is massive success.” ―Frank Sinatra


764. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.”


765. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”


766. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ―Tim Notke


767. “When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.”


768. “I want to thank Ken Behrens for doing the right thing.”


769. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ―Sam Levenson


770. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.


771. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty


772. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ―Charles R. Swindoll


773. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”


774. “A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.”


775. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”


776. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”


777. “To those wondering about giving while living: Try it. You’ll like it.”


778. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”


779. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”. —Jane Austen


780. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ―William James


781. “The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”


782. “Every cynic is a sentimentalist under the skin.” —Louis L’Amour (September 1996)


783. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”


784. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”


785. “Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.” ―Michael Jordan


786. “Education is the vaccine of violence.” —Edward James Olmos


787. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now”


788. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”


789. “Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.”


790. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin


791. “A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”


792. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”


793. “The early bird catches the worm.” – John Ray


794. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”


795. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” —Albert Einstein


796. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”


797. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes


798. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky


799. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein


800. “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” —Coco


801. “What is not started will never get finished.”


802. “If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.” —Billy Idol


803. “Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”


804. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.


805. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.”


806. “If you fall―I’ll be there.” ―Floor


807. “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”


808. “All we can do is the best we can do.” ―David Axelrod


809. “Revenge is a powerful motivator.” ―Marcus Luttrell


810. “Only do what your heart tells you.” ―Princess Diana


811. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”


812. “If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.”


813. “Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”


814. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon


815. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton


816. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ―Katharine Hepburn


817. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale


818. “Take the risk or lose the chance.” ―Unknown


819. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” – Walt Disney


820. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth


821. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”


822. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”


823. ‘It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” ―George Eliot


824. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon


825. “One can only forget about time by making use of it.”


826. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become.”


827. “Hire character. Train skill.”


828. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” ―Sonia Sotomayer


829. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” - Lemony Snicket


830. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs


831. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius


832. “He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.”


833. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”


834. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”


835. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou


836. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ―Thomas Edison


837. “Swipe from the best, then adapt.” —Tom Peters


838. “Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.”


839. “Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.”


840. “Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou


841. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin


842. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”


843. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy


844. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”


845. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” ―Frank Ocean


846. “What is life without a little risk?” ―J.K. Rowling


847. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen


848. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis


849. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.”


850. “I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.”


851. “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”


852. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” - Stephen King


853. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill


854. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”


855. “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson


856. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King


857. “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”


858. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”


859. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon


860. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.” ―Robin Williams


861. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.”


862. “Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.”


863. “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” - Mark Twain


864. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill


865. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”


866. “Reading brings us unknown friends” - Honoré de Balzac


867. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”


868. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus.


869. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” – Babe Ruth


870. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk,? but no flowers grow on it.”


871. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”


872. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”


873. “No man goes before his time unless the boss leaves early.”


874. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”


875. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ―Lou Holtz


876. “No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.” —David Eddings


877. “The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.”


878. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.”


879. “More men have become great through practice than by nature.”


880. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare.


881. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.


882. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden


883. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.


884. “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”


885. “Time is money, especially when you’re talking to a lawyer, or buying a commercial.”


886. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”—Oscar Wilde (June 1954)


887. “The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.” —Alexandra Stoddard


888. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser


889. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”


890. “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”


891. “There’s no multitasking with the moment.”


892. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”


893. “We’ll start the war from right here!”


894. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings


895. “Done is better than perfect.” ―Sheryl Sandberg


896. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”


897. “Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”


898. “You know how I like to think of myself? As a human being.”


899. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”


900. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” ―Robert T. Kiyosaki


901. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.


902. “If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time” – Steve Jobs


903. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí


904. “You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”


905. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ―Steve Martin


906. “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.”


907. “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey


908. “I never dreamed about success; I worked for it” – Estee Lauder


909. “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”


910. “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”


911. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” —Jonathan Winters (June 1990)


912. “You must do the kind of things you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt


913. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life” – Steve Jobs


914. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved” – D. H. Lawrence


915. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”


916. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.”―Sarah Dessen, Just Listen


917. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi


918. “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” – Gordon A. Eadie


919. “The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.” —Celine Dion


920. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.”


921. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”


922. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”


923. “The potential market opportunity did not seem large enough for our required model.”


924. “It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot


925. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” —Maya Angelou


926. “We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”


927. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


928. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle


929. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”


930. “Don’t say you can’t until you prove you can’t.” —Les Paul


931. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up” – Vince Lombardi


932. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today” – Will Rogers


933. “All’s fair in love and war.” – John Lyly


934. “Believe you can and you will.” ―Unknown


935. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”


936. “Good is the enemy of great.”


937. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”


938. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius


939. “Life is really simple, but social media has made it complicated.”


940. “Every noble work is at first impossible.”


941. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” ―Janis Joplin


942. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”


943. “If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”


944. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”


945. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler


946. “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”


947. “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” ―Gabby Douglas


948. “You’re so much stronger than your excuses.” ―Unknown


949. “Joy is one of the only emotions you can’t contrive.” —Bono


950. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”


951. “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” —Naomi Judd


952. “One day or day one. You decide.” —Unknown


953. We're gonna need a bigger boat.


954. “Time is what we want most and what we use worst.” ―William Penn


955. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way” – Napoleon Hill


956. Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde


957. “Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind.”


958. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” —Robert Frost


959. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” ―Helen Keller


960. “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.” - Edgar Allan Poe


961. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James


962. “Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.” ―Unknown


963. “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”


964. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”


965. Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice. ~ Fawn Weaver


966. If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.


967. “What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.” ―Jamie Foxx


968. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ―Louise Hay


969. Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor


970. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”


971. “Happiness is not a goal. It’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”


972. “Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”


973. “Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.” —Robert Heller


974. “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann (December 1941)


975. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”


976. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action” – Dr. Henry Link


977. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ―George Eliot


978. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” ―Aly Raisman


979. “When in doubt, look intelligent.” —Garrison Keillor (April 2008)


980. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke Ellington


981. “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”


982. “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”


983. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.”


984. “I will not erase all my hard work this week because it’s the weekend.” ―Unknown


985. “I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong.”


986. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ―Napoleon Hill


987. “Never confuse motion with action.” —Ernest Hemingway


988. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”


989. “I never dreamed of success. I worked for it.”


990. “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ―Dr. Wayne D. Dyer


991. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”


992. “It’s during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle


993. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt


994. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life” – John Wooden


995. “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”


996. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.”


997. “If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything.” ―Marva Collin


998. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”


999. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu


1000. “One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.”

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