There are times when life seems helpless and hopeless, no matter how much we attempt to stay sane, sensible and positive.
For me, when I encounter moments like these, I usually turn to my collection of good life quotes to live by to seek solace and strength.
No doubt they are just words. But they are powerful and salubrious. They can uplift me from the heap of despair and disappointment.
Here are my favorite good life quotes which have show me out from when I am down and out.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." - Ellen Hubbard
“Life is more of asking the right questions than finding the right answers." - Quotesan
“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” - Zig Ziglar
“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao Tzu
“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.” - English Proverb
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho
“You live your own life. If you are not happy with it, change it all by yourself. No one else is going to do it for you.” - Quotesan
“If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.” - Jim Rohn
“Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” - Henry Ford
“Choose a job you love, & you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
“Want to live a more comfortable life? Then get off from your comfort zone.” - Quotesan
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” - Gail Sheehy
“Stop listening to your past. Let it go. It has nothing new to say.” - Quotesan
“Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.” - William Arthur Ward
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” - Zig Ziglar
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
“If you want it, become it.” - Mastin Kipp
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein
“If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.” - Ted Murphy
“Not only you can change your own life, you also have the ability to change someone’s life.” - Quotesan
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” - Colin Powell
“Life is accumulative – Either our errors accumulate to what we don’t get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.” - Jim Rohn
“At times what may appear as a detour in life, can lead you to your desired destination.” - Quotesan
“If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.” - Dalai Lama
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” - C. S. Lewis
“Don’t worry what others are doing. Do you!” - Russell Simmons
“Be passionately curious. Curiosities lead to possibilities." - Quotesan
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley
“Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.” - Robin Sharma
“Your mind is like water, when agitated it becomes difficult to see but if allowed to settle, the answer becomes clear.” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” - Brian Tracy
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” - Nelson Mandela
“Keep pursuing of your dream. It is the pursuing that can turn your dream to reality.” - Quotesan
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible'” - Audrey Hepburn
“Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.” - Spanish Proverb
“Just Remember: The people that say, “your dreams are impossible ” have already quit on theirs.” - Grant Cardone
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.” - Albert Schweitzer
“Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.” - Paulo Coelho
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” - Marcus Aurelius
“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” - Julia Sorel
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” - Winston Churchill
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” - Jim Rohn
“The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.” - Vince Lombardi
“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.” - George Bernard Shaw
“If not us, who? If not now, when?” - John F. Kennedy
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” - Jack Canfield
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” - Arthur C. Clarke
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison
“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” - Sir Claus Moser
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” - Lao Tzu
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” - Thomas Carlyle
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” - Joe Clark
“The best revenge is massive success.” - Frank Sinatra
“It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” - Italian Proverb
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” - Babe Ruth
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” - Prescott
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” - Stephen Covey
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” - Dudley Field Malone
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” - Albert Einstein
“We become what we think about.” - Earl Nightingale
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” - Buddha
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