LIFE 101 (ebook).pdf ~ 101 Great Quotes of LIFE Lessons

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4. 1. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own.
- Robert A. Heinlein

2. A good deed is the best prayer.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

3. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

4. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The
time will pass anyway.
- Earl Nightingale

5. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
- Leonardo da Vinci

6. Keep busy. It’s the cheapest kind of medicine there is.
- Dale Carnegie

7. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Publilius Syrus

8. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Alexander Pope

9. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca

10. Failure is an event, never a person.
- William D. Brown

11. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Marthe Troly-Curtin

12. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly
part with all his money for health.
- Charles Caleb Colton

13. Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.
- Cicero

14. Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
- St. Francis de Sales

15. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

5. - Seneca

16. The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
- Sakyong Mipham

17. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Michel de Montaigne

18. It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. If you’re looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it
elsewhere.
- Malcolm Forbes

20. No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

21. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

22. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius

23. Hatred is self-punishment.
- Hosea Ballou

24. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid

25. Little strokes fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

26. A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
- Erasmus

27. Life must be lived with love and humour: love to understand it, and humour to put up
with it.
- Carlos Fisas

28. What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer
believe you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

29. Let the sole worry of your parents be that you might become ill.
- Confucius

6. 30. Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back.
- George Skolsky (attributed)

31. Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli

32. It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
- Jules Renard

33. Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard

34. Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
- Kahlil Gibran

35. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can
prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese Proverb

36. You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to
control and some things are not.
- Epictetus

37. Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
- Buddha

38. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher

39. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

40. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one
spot.
- Josh Billings

41. It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

42. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

43. It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

7. 44. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

45. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford

46. The present is an eternal now.
- Abraham Cowley

47. As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself
to circumstances.
- Confucius

48. The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny the Elder

49. There is no defeat except from within.
- Elbert Hubbard

50. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca

51. We are all of us richer than we think we are.
- Michel de Montaigne

52. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- John Milton

53. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until
brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell

54. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. McIntyre

55. No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man is
so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel but his own. He that is
taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Jonson

56. I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is
different, and everyone’s journey is different.
- Dolly Parton

57. Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

8. 58. Revenge does us more harm than the injury itself.
- John Lubbock

59. Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
- Maya Angelou

60. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope
and confidence.
- Helen Keller

61. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to
us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

62. Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He
is also a fool.
- Robert A. Heinlein

63. There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb

64. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him
for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

65. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never
be found out.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay

66. Never let success go to your head, or failure to your heart.
- Dr. Mardy Grothe

67. Don’t be afraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

68. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship.
- Buddha

69. The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- Plato

70. Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

9. 71. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the
longest practice, and at length it falls down from us without our notice, as a leaf from a
tree.
- Henry David Thoreau

72. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Albert Einstein)

73. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is
history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.
- Alice Morse Earle

74. I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
- Helen Keller

75. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

76. Not the cry but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Chinese Proverb

77. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the
company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- Jonathan Swift

78. Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

79. Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it—for action has magic
grace and power in it.
- Goethe

80. Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in
this world.
- Helen Keller

81. If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise
compassion.
- Dalai Lama

82. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- James Keller

83. The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

10. 84. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
- William Arthur Ward

86. The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more
things you will have to express gratitude for.
- Zig Ziglar

87. A man’s life is what his thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

88. Helping hands are better than praying lips.
- St. Teresa of Calcutta

89. Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevelt

90. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- H. G. Wells

91. As the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
- Alexander Pope

92. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

93. What you seek is seeking you.
- Rumi

94. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius

95. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

96. Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate
theirs.
- William Allen White

97. Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci

11. 98. It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s
mistakes.
- Warren Buffett

99. Be like a tree, let the dead leaves drop.
- Rumi

100. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what
you think and what you do is who you become.
- Heraclitus

101. I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.
- Matthew Quick





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