Quotes by Great Quotes

“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.” – Oscar Wilde

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” – L. M. Montgomery

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu

“If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.” – William Irwin Thompson

“Actions are the seed of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S Truman

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“Depression is when your favorite thoughts and feelings go on vacation without you. Don’t worry. Wherever they went, they’re probably having a really good time.” – Shaun Roundy

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – Shakespeare

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it—immediately.” – Stephen R. Covey

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes DeMille

“The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them.” – Seneca

“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

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

“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.” – Saint Augustine

“Great leaders don’t need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.’ – Simon Sinek

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” – Thomas Merton

“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!” – Jillian Michaels

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ” – M. Scott Peck

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Buddha

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young