Find carefully selected quotes, designed to motivate, challenge and inspire.
Discover wise quotes about life. What goals to choose? What changes you need? What is a failure? And what is time? And what is true knowledge?
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”
KNOWLEDGE
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
LISTEN CAREFULLY
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
KEEP MOVING
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
TIME
Your problem is you think you have time.
The Buddha
Time is the least thing we have.
Ernest Hemingway
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FAILURE
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
CHANGE IT
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn
THOUGHTS
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
LESSONS
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Abraham–Hicks
IMAGINATION
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
GOALS
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey
And some more wise quotes about life
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be ‘happy.’ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo C. Rosten
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
James F. Bymes
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
George Bernard Shaw
Wise quotes about life from great minds.
