life-quotes-and-sayings

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.

When life__ great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.

Don__ climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.