My Favourite Quotes

Words to Live by: Life

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life;
not so much what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
- Kahlil Gibran

"A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for."
- William Shedd

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills

"Losing hurts
but it hurts even more
when you realise that you haven't done your best."
- Anonymous

"If you don't have a vision for the future,
then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past. "
- A. R. Bernard

"You don't have to ask for what you need
as long as you don't mind not getting it. "
- Anonymous

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the external hanging on of an uncompleted task."
- William James

"If you keep doing what you have been doing,
you will keep getting what you have been getting."
- Anonymous

"If you are miserable about all the things you want and haven't got,
think about all the things you don't want and haven't got."
- Anonymous

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy,
but it’s good to check up once in a while to make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
- George Claude Lorimer

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen,or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller

"The man with no shoes grumbled in the street, until he met a man with no feet."
- Anonymous

"Failure is not falling down.
Failure is not getting back up."
- Anonymous