Quotes on Life

"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~ Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
~ John Updike

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
~ Donald Trump

"Indecision is often worse than wrong action."
~ Henry Ford

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
~ Frank A. Clark

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
~ John Enoch Powell, Statesman

"Say what you mean and mean what you say. But don’t say it mean."
~ John Mason Brown

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
~ Warren Buffett

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~ Albert Einstein

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it. "
~ Thomas A. Edison

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in."
~ Katherine Mansfield; 1888-1923, Author.

"Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only currency you have, so spend it wisely."
~ Anonymous

"Every person should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
~ Henry Ward Beecher

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
~ James Branch Cabell

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
~ Seneca, BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman

"There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
~ John Holmes

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
~ Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958, Engineer, Inventor

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
~ Sydney J. Harris, 1917-, Journalist

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
~ Arthur Calwell

“The place where your greatest fears live is also the place where your greatest growth lies.”
~ Robin Sharma

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
~ Raymond Lindquistson

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1859-1915, Author, Publisher

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
~ Chinese Proverb

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in; forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be a thumb in a sea of fingers”
~ Anonymous

“We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.”
~ Francis de la Rochefocauld

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth."
~ Anonymous

“Sometimes, I think people would rather have cup holders than four wheels.” (Just a reminder that it’s the little things that mean a lot, sometimes).
~ Ford designer Mark Adams on the public’s insatiable demand for places to put their drinks.