A lot of people say that life is hard. They say it’s too difficult, and that they’re going to fail at it. But that’s just a bunch of bull. Life is a journey, not a destination. You can’t control the outcome, but you can control how you deal with things that happen along the way.
Ignore Quotes
1. “If you have a problem, make a decision, then take action. The next day, your problem is gone.” -Brian Tracy
2. “If you want to get rid of all your problems, get busy. You’ll have plenty of time to worry later.” -Dorothy Sayers
3. “If you want to know what you want, go get it. If you want to know what you don’t want, go look at it.” -Unknown
4. “The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
5. “You can’t control what happens to you, but you can decide how you will react to it.” -Wayne Dyer
6. “The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Soren Kierkegaard
7. “The secret of happiness is to see everything as it really is.” -William Shakespeare
8. “You can’t fall down if you don’t get up.” -Unknown
9. “Don’t worry about failure; you won’t have any.” -Jim Rohn
10. “Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. You just haven’t found the right person to tell you you can’t.” -Janet Jackson
11. “There’s no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t mind who gets the credit.” -Dr. Seuss
12. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. You bet you can. You’ve got to tell them you’re going to do it. Show them you’re going to do it. Do it. The rest is just talk.” -John Wayne
13. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” -Unknown
14. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
15. “No matter what you do, someone will criticize your work. There’s only one way to get rid of a temptation, and that’s to yield to it.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
16. “The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.” -Herbert Spencer
17. “We can’t all win a Nobel Prize, but we can all make a difference.” -Malala Yousafzai
18. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela
19. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou
20. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
21. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -Henry Ford
22. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison
23. “I am not discouraged because every obstacle yields to action.” -Helen Keller
24. “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” -Unknown
25. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway
26. “There is no friend as loyal as an enemy who is busy destroying himself.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
27. “He who has never failed has never tried anything new.” -Henry David Thoreau
28. “The most successful people are not those who aim at success. They are those who aim at excellence and who work hard to get it.” -Helen Keller
29. “If you want to accomplish something worthwhile in this world, you must be prepared to do something that is going to separate you from the herd.” -Elbert Hubbard
30. “I am not what I ought to be, but I hope I am what I might be.” -John Adams
31. “What you are thinking about is where you will be tomorrow. What you should be thinking about is where you want to be.” -Jim Rohn
32. “We all have within us the power to succeed or fail. We must take responsibility for our failure as well as our success.” -Norman Vincent Peale
33. “The only real failure is to try to please everybody.” -Robert Frost
34. “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.” -Walt Disney
35. “In a world of uncertainty, the safest thing is to be bold.” -Vincent Van Gogh
36. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” -Dorothy M. Nelkin
37. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
38. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” -Anonymous
39. “You don’t know what you can do until you try.” -Maya Angelou
40. “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” -Unknown
41. “You must live in a world where your actions are governed by a sense of right and wrong, good and evil.” -John F. Kennedy
42. “To be successful you must think big. Think global. Think long-term. Think win-win. Think about the future. Think about the future of our planet. And most importantly, think about the future of humanity.” -Tony Robbins
43. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell
44. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
45. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs
46. “If you want to find out who you are, ask yourself who you want to be.” -Albus Dumbledore
47. “Ignore the noise, and you’ll hear the music.” -Anonymous
48. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -Zig Ziglar
49. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.” -Allen Peake
51. “You can’t fall off a bike you never got on.” -Anonymous
52. “A person who has nothing for which to give up anything is a miserable creature.” -William Penn
53. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -Charles Darwin
54. “The only way to make progress is to risk something.” -Arthur Ashe
55. “No matter what happens, somebody will know why.” -Abraham Lincoln
56. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill
57. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
58. “It’s the people who can accept change that have the best chance of survival.” -John C. Maxwell
59. “You can’t fall asleep on your dreams, and you can’t live without them.” -Harold Robbins
60. “If you don’t like what you are doing, change it. If you can’t change it, change your mind about it. And if you can’t do that, change the way you think about it.” -M. Scott Peck
61. “I’d rather have roses than diamonds, for I may get more roses with my labours.” -Thomas Fuller
62. “If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.” -Albert Einstein
63. “The only way to do great things is to keep on trying when so many give up.” -Vincent Van Gogh
64. “It’s not what we don’t know that holds us back; it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain
65. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “The most important decision you will ever make is whether or not to accept yourself as you are.” -Oprah Winfrey
67. “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” -Sir Winston Churchill
69. “The best way to find out what you think about something is to ask somebody else.” -William H. Whyte
70. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Poverty is the inability to do so.” -Socrates
71. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” -Albert Einstein
72. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that it can’t be done. Not even me.” -Richard Branson
73. “If you are sincere, no one will deceive you.” -Nelson Mandela
74. “If you want to know who you are, ask yourself who you want to be.” -Ernest Hemingway
75. “If you want to be successful, double your rate of failure.” -Thomas Edison
76. “Failure is only failure if you don’t learn from it.” -Norman Vincent Peale
77. “If you can’t do a thing, teach it to somebody who can.” -Henry Ford
78. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
79. “We all have a choice in how we respond to life’s challenges.” -Denis Waitley
80. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw
81. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” -E. E. Cummings
82. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
83. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 413
84. “The test of our progress is not whether we have made a new discovery, but whether we have made a new perception.” -John Muir
85. “What you get by being a little different is Freedom and Happiness.” -Pablo Picasso
86. “The only thing that interferes with your progress is your own self-doubt.” -Walt Disney
87. “The most important thing is not to be afraid to try something new.” -Vera Rubin
88. “We don’t know who we are, until we lose our fear of being wrong.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
89. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.” -J.K. Rowling
90. “I am what I am. I was what I was. I will be what I will be.” -Gandhi
91. “Don’t worry about failure; that’s part of success.” -Michael Jordan
92. “We must never lose sight of the fact that the struggle of man against nature is the struggle of one generation against the next.” -Thomas Huxley
93. “If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love.” -Mother Teresa
94. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
95. “The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know.” -Albert Einstein
96. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” -Proverb
98. “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
99. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” -Charles Darwin
100. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
101. “I’m never going to be the best at anything, so I might as well be the good at something.” -Michael Jordan
102. “I can’t imagine a more dangerous life than that of a writer, for he is someone who lives by the judgment of others.” -Henry Miller
103. “Innovation is just connecting things that weren’t connected before.” -Steve Jobs
104. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
105. “If you look at all the things you have control over, you will find that almost everything is under your control.” -Elon Musk
106. “You don’t have to be great to start, but if you are going to be great, you have to start with being good.” -Dale Carnegie
107. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
108. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” -Blaise Pascal
109. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.” -Ernest Hemingway
110. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” -Unknown
In conclusion, the key to success is to keep your expectations low and your attitude positive. Don’t let your self-esteem get knocked down by people who are jealous of you or who don’t like what you have to offer. Keep your head up and stay focused on your goals. You’ll never get anywhere if you give up too soon.
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