99 Quotes For Bad Times

1.  Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
2. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley
3. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau
4. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca
5. There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. Henry David Thoreau
6. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt
7. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. Thomas Merton
8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart
9. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato
10. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection, but quotes after a breakup make me realize that the more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
11. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
12. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner
13. Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw
14. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry
15. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
16. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. John Cleese
17. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill
18. In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. Michael Jordan
19. I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever. Donna Mills
20. I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. Bo Jackson
21. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde
22. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle
23. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther
24. I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. Ronald Reagan
25. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle
26. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Joan of Arc
27. Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Miguel Angel Ruiz
28. It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. Sydney J. Harris
29. Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson
30. When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. Gerald Jampolsky
31. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Benjamin Franklin
32. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir
33. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger
34. It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
35. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster
36. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith
38. Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent
39. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Tony Robbins
40. A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward
41. The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. Chanakya
42. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
43. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny
44. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
45. Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams
46. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy
47. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
48. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
49. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Rick Warren
50. Life must be lived as play. Plato
51. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott
52. If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola
53. Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt. Sigourney Weaver
54. Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
55. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran
56. You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. Wayne Dyer
57. My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron
58. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato
59. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
60. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
61. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
62. When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King
63. The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell
64. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison
65. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI
66. In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill
67. What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. Oprah Winfrey
68. Live the life you've dreamed. Henry David Thoreau
69. Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
70. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
71. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
72. I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali
73. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. Marilyn Monroe
74. I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. Oprah Winfrey
75. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins
76. Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry
77. Life is too short to work so hard. Vivien Leigh
78. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. Bill Gates
79. I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. Henry Rollins
80. In life you need either inspiration or desperation. Tony Robbins
81. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
82. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
83. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
84. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee
85. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
86. A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci
87. I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix
88. You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Charlie Sheen
89. Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. Dalai Lama
90. Old age is just a record of one's whole life. Muhammad Ali
91. So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life. Will Smith
92. 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
93. Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche
94. The less routine the more life. Amos Bronson Alcott
95. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin
96. Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks
97. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney
98. I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. John Lennon
99. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel