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Perspective Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett


“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
― Tim Burton

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole


“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder


“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon


“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell


“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie


“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright


“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz


“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw


“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen



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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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