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25 Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Below are 25 quotes that will change your life:

1. Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. –Thomas Fuller

2. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. –Hypocrites

4. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. –Italian Proverb

5. Life is like a library owned by the author.  In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. –Harry Emerson Fosdick

6. We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. –Earl of Beaconsfield

7. There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. –Rainer Maria Rilke

8. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. –Henry Ward Beecher

9. The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter. –Lee Iacocca

10. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Francis Bacon

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

12. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. –Dennis Waitley

13. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. –Brian Tracy

14. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live on purpose. –Michel de Montaigne

15. Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. –Aldous Huxley

16. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. –Yogi Berra

17. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. –Polybius

18. The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. –Richard Monckton Milnes

19. To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift. –Franklin Roosevelt

20. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. –Henry Ford

21. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. –Seneca

22. It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. –Author Unknown

24. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. –Henry D. Thoreau

25. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • Number 23. was stated by Robert Heinlein.
    Complete quote:
    In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

  • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.--Leo Tolstoy
    "if you judge people all the time , you have no time to love them "--mother TERESA

  • It's going to be ending of mine day, except before ending I am reading this enormous post to improve my experience.

  • You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. —John Lennon