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Passion Quotes

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova


“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, 

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley


“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott


“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus


“What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?”
― Lauren Kate

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“I’ll always choose you.” Yes that was the word. “Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
― Lauren Kate


“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
― Martha Graham

“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel


“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I
will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
― Lauren Kate


“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
― Julie de Lespinasse

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara


“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Let me love you, but don’t love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”
― Ann Brashares


“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
― Claude Monet

“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
― Gustave Flaubert


“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
― Candide

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
― Anaïs Nin


“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”― Ludwig van Beethoven


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Attitude Quotes

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson


“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don’t like you.”
― C. JoyBell C.


“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
― Criss Jami

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken


“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
― Lou Holtz

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ”
― Mary Ellen Chase

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
― Brian Tracy

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks


“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”
― William Shakespeare

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole

“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
― Thomas Fuller


“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem”
― Captain Jack Sparrow


“Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.”
― Sonia Rumzi

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― Sam Harris


“You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can.”
― Dan Howell

“My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”
― Mira Grant

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana


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Inspirational Learning and Training Quotes


“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Dr. Seuss


“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins


“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle,


“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov


“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato

“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”
― Benjamin Franklin


“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it”
― Confucius

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein


“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
― B.B. King

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford


. “The goal of training is to create an army of thinkers, not robots.”
Robyn Shulman

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela


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FEAR QUOTES

FEAR QUOTES

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
― Emma Donoghue

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
― Erica Jong

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
― Angie Thomas

“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
― Francis Chan


“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell


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FAILURE QUOTES

FAILURE QUOTES

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.”
― Sarah Dessen

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
― Ned Vizzini

“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells


“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
― Sabaa Tahir

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
― Steven Wright

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz

“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
― Amelia Earhart

“I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
― Napoleon Hill


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HABITS QUOTES

HABITS QUOTES

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
― Albert Camus

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
― Charles Duhigg

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
― Julien Smith

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.”
― Marcia Carrington

“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”
― Erasmus

“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. (“Not on the shortlist”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
― William James

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits – practical, emotional, and intellectual – systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” – William James”
― Charles Duhigg

“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”
― Gordon Parks

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Ryun

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
― John Irving

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
― Idries Shah

“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”
― Therese Fowler

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”
― Ann Brashares

“I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!”
― Brandon Sanderson

“…it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.”
― A.S. Byatt

“Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri

“You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger.”
“I have always considered that a good habit”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Perbedaan antara bisa dengan tidak bisa itu sangat sederhana, yaitu habits.”
― Felix Y. Siauw

“Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It’s a dangerous
habit.’
‘I agree, Grandmamma.”
― Roald Dahl

“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”
― Og Mandino

“Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.”
― Nicole Krauss

“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
― Mortimer Adler

“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
― Marcel Proust

“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”
― Elizabeth George

“Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”
― Harley King

“If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.”
― Kenneth Schwarz

“I don’t like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.”
― Linnea Gelland

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
― James Clear

“Authenticity is the key to building trust and credibility in personal and professional relationships.”
― Felecia Etienne

“The habits that govern our lives determines if we will be victors or victims.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Create a music playlist that fuels your passion and motivates you to be the best version of yourself.”
― Felecia Etienne

“Success doesn’t happen alone. Find someone who gets you, someone who’s got your back, and someone who cheers you on as you chase your dreams.”
― Felecia Etienne


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ADVERSITY QUOTES

ADVERSITY QUOTES

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
― Thomas Paine

“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

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

“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle

“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon Alder

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.”
― Glennon Doyle

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
― Nick Hornby

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

“Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi


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OPPORTUNITY QUOTES

OPPORTUNITY QUOTES

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
― Stephen Richards

“…one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
― Markus Zusak

“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”
― Stephen Richards

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
― Alexander Graham Bell

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”
― Richard Branson

“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
― Stephen Richards

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
― Sarah Caldwell

“No matter how small you start, always dream big.”
― Stephen Richards

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
― Roger Von Oech

“It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.”
― Stephen Richards

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
― Patti Roberts

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
― Sun Tzu

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.”
― Herbert Hoover

“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
― Toba Beta

“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”
― George S. Clason

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.”
― William Blake

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.”
― Toni Sorenson

“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”
― Marcel Proust

“Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
― Peter O’Toole

“Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Still I promise myself, “Next time I will do better” in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a “next time.”
― Robin Hobb

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
― Doris Lessing

“Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.”
― Stephen Richards

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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― Eric Hoffer

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
― Robert Kennedy


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MINDFULNESS QUOTES

MINDFULNESS QUOTES

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray


“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”
― Pema Chödrön


“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma


“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L’Amour


“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson


“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
― Evita Ochel


“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön


“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”
― Allan Lokos

“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
― Doug Dillon

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”
― Amit Ray

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
― Amit Ray

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Lawrence Binyon

“Happiness is not constant; it is cyclical. Happiness is broad and resilient, and the happiest people still experience negative feelings.”
― Robert Gill Jr

“Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”
― Amit Ray

“My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
― Mary Doria Russell

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.”
― Doug Dillon

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
― Eric Schmidt

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”
― Allan Lokos


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