Quotations are a gateway for the dreamers; breath to the lovers; hope to the hopeless; affirmation to the faithful; a reminder to the disillusioned; and a beacon to the wandering." - Anonymous
I have always enjoyed reading quotes a lot
since I was a child. I always had some or the other diary where I used to write
the quotes I loved. Some of those I lost (I don’t know where). I still have one
with me and sharing 50 of my favourite quotes.
1) “Be yourself; everyone else is already
taken.” - Oscar Wilde
2) “Don't cry because it's over, smile
because it happened.”- Dr. Suess
3) “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
4) “To be yourself in a world that is
constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
5) “In love, no one can harm anyone else;
we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone
else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in
love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one
owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important
thing in the world without owning it.”- Paulo Coelho
6) “In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost
7) “Never be bullied into silence. Never
allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life;
define yourself.”- Robert Frost.
8) “A heartful of you is just what i have.
An eye full of you is just what I need.” Abhishek Gupta
9) “I don't profess to be profound; but I
do lay claim to common sense.”- Emily Dickinson
10) “If you only read the books
that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is
thinking.”- Haruki Murakami
11) “Be the change that you wish
to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12) “The greatest sin is to think
yourself weak.” – Swami Vivekanand
13) “If you judge people, you
have no time to love them.” –
Mother Teresa
14) “Silence is the most perfect
expression of scorn.” – George Bernard
Shaw
15) “Don’t let what you cannot
do interfere with what you can do.”- John Wodden
16) " I am thankful to all those
who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself.”- Albert Einstein
17) "Choose your thoughts
carefully. You are the masterpiece of your life.” – Rhonda Byrne
18) “If you want to awaken all
of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.”- Lao Tzu
19) “What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It
never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will
hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the
door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to
pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality,
and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect
alive and growing.”- Maxwell Maltz
20) “We are what our thoughts have made us; so
take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel
far.”- Swami Vivekananda
21) “Accept everything about yourself. I mean everything. You are you,
and that is the beginning and the end; No apologies, no regrets.” - Clark
Montanas.
22) “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner
voice.”- Steve Jobs
23) “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all
the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their
actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words that matter.”-
Nicholas Sparks
24) “I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to
laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if
it kills me – I’m going to smile.” - Author Unknown
25) “There is only one thing that that makes a
dream impossible to achieve; the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
26) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s
courage.” – Anais Nin
27) “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no
opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth
more first than sun, more last than star...” – E.E. Cummings
28) “Although actions may speak louder than
words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.” – Hal Elrod
29) “To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. -Robert Louis Stevenson.” – R.L. Stevenson
30) “We cannot change our past. We cannot change
the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The
only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our
attitude.”
31) “No matter what sort of difficulties, how
painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”- Dalai
Lama XIV
32) “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life
moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite
of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
33) “Don’t wait until everything is
just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges,
obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each
step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more
and more self-confident and more and more successful.” - Mark Victor Hansen
34) “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious
and adding the meaningful.” – John Maeda
35) “People will suffer almost anything as long
as it means they don’t have to change.” – Deepak Chopra
36) “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius
37) “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.” - Robert Brault
38) “When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting
you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of. And then you’re going
to get the only respect in the world that matters: self-respect.” - Sylvester
Stallone
39) “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from. The ability
to triumph begins with you. Always.” - Oprah Winfrey
40) “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
41) “When you're struggling with something, look at all the people
around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with
something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.” –
Nicholas Sparks
42) “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
43) “That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt.” – John Green
44) “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall
never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” – Jane Austen
45) “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” –
William Shakespeare
46) “Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal” - William Shakespeare
47) “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and
earnestly.” – Gautama Buddha
48) “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” – Leo Tolstoy
49) “When love is not madness it is not love.” – Pedro Calderon de la
Barca
50) “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” William Shakespeare
I
can go on and on as there are just so many of them. Hope you all enjoy these
and yes, you are free to add your favourite ones.
