Quotes and Meanings: Wisdom for Life & Success

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Where there is love there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person.

Love is not about possession. It's about appreciation.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go chase it.

Know thyself.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

To be is to be perceived.

Man is the measure of all things.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

To thine own self be true.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

Leaders think and act in the present, with an eye to the future.

True leadership stems from individual character and dependability, not titles.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The moment you commit to something, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Personal development is the belief that you are worthy of time and effort.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Your potential is endless. Keep going.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make.

Self-improvement is a never-ending journey.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Lost time is never found again.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Your relationship with time is your relationship with your life.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying 'I don't want to.'

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

Your mindset determines your progress.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Winners have simply developed the discipline of doing what losers won’t.

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

The only limits in life are the ones you make.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Focus on progress, not perfection.

A positive mind finds opportunity in every difficulty.