The power of a single sentence is tremendous.A single sentence can either make your day or in the same time ruin somebody’s day. It can change your mood. Just a few words put together, yet they make such big impact. But there are few sentences that can inspire us to change our life for the better.
10 Sentences That Can Change Your Life
#1 “People aren’t against you; they are for themselves.”
#2 “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.”
#3 “You learn more from failure than from success; don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
#4 “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
#5 “Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated.”
#6 “The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so you better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.”
#7 “If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.”
#8 “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.. that’s why we recommend it daily.”
#9 “Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”
#10 “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”
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Your turn now…
What is the one sentence that you have heard or read and has made great impact on your life? For example mine was an advice my father gave me when I was young – “If you are unemployed and you are not looking for a job 8 hours per day, you don’t want to work.”
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Wonderful and so true! I love quotes and find them very inspiring. Thanks for sharing this!
From Teddy:
Far better it is to dare mighty things… to win glorious triumphs
even though checkered with failure;
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither suffer much or enjoy much
because the live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt circa 1910
very beautiful sharing because every quote are very heart touching.
I am loving these quotes! Thanks for sharing!
Great set of quotes.
One that I live by: “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Motivation has to be done not only daily, but all day long.
what you are doing is earning you tonnes of blessings, keep working for this noble cause.
This one speaks to me today: “The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so you better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.” I have been having a difficult time emotionally these days, and that may be something I should work toward. Thank you, Hristiqn. Peace
In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took… but how many moments took your breath away.
Really love that quote Ray
awesome compilation!! The 9th one brought a smile and I love the 2nd one!
you ARE just PHENOMENAL, I love you ! 🙂
Some really great quotes here.
Really Inspiring Quotes 🙂 Love you Cris 🙂
Thank you.
I just read “a genius is merely one who has a great idea, but the common sense to keep quiet about his other thousand insane thoughts.”
You are a and spreading genius by challenging us to ponder great ideals.
Thank you for the kind words.
How amazing and inspiring !
A must share bookmark. 🙂
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
I just stumbled upon this and absolutely love each and every one of these quotes. I’m currently reading The Last Lecture and this reminded me of a quote from the book: “The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!”
It’s great to stumble upon motivational inspiration, never know who might need it. =)
Me 2~
Live life with passion!!
Good resource! Thank you for writing.
That last one, “Comfort is the enemy of achievement?” Yeah, that one can go die in a fire.
If it is true, then achievement is overrated.
Hey Hunter,
Actually what the meaning behind the quote is that you have to go out of your comfort zone if you want to achieve something. Like you have to work harder, or risk more or sleep less. Like you can’t expect to achieve anything while doing nothing.
“Little by little, an egg will walk.”
I just stumbled upon this and absolutely love each and every one of these quotes. I’m currently reading The Last Lecture and this reminded me of a quote from the book: “The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!”
Thank you for the kind words.
My father used to tell me “Can’t never did anything.” I think about that daily.
Hello Sam,
Great quote, thanks for sharing. Keep visiting 🙂
a yaqui indian sorcerer has told me.
“you have everything you need to take the extravagant trip that is your life.”
I like that one. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Ummm….anyone care that two of the entries are multiple sentences? The title should actually be “14 Sentences that you’ve probably already read a million times and therefore have ceased to mean anything.” But the thought behind it is nice.
Hey,
I don’t think just because something was seen many times that means it loses it’s value.
Best
Everything happens for a reason
It is what it is..
You’re absolutely right about the power of some of these quotes.
One that has served me well over the years, though I can’t remember
where I first heard it, is “What other people think of me is none of my business.”
Hello Doug, I’m wondering if you are the Doug Shasko I met in 1986 at your sister’s wedding in Vancouver? Remember me… the french canadian party girl 🙂
oui, oui, mon petit chou.
how far around the world did you get?
please tell me you made it back here.
would love to see you. gmail deshasko.
Hello Doug, I was wondering if you are my brother, Doug, from Coquitlam, BC and where have you been all these year. Have been looking for you. If you are, please try and get in touch. You know where we are.
Diane
Hi Diane – just wondering if you had any luck?
Yes I am, Mrs. Haeber. Maple Ridge.
(see Carmen’s thread for contact).
I will email you. Looking forward to catching up:)
Tried to email you, maybe had the wrong email. deshasko@gmail.com. Is this the one
Hi Jim, Ruttan has my number.
Nice quotes :)))))
I’ve always liked:
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre.
Learn to occupy yourself. If you’re bored, you’re boring.
“And those who were seen dancing were though to be insane by those who could not here the music” – Nietzsche
“The bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”
– Galileo (when questioned about the relationship between science and religion)
Life is the process of destoying any illusions that you may have once had about it!
“If you don’t ask, the answer is automatically ‘No'”.
“Life is not fair, but God is good.”
“God, help me to accept the unacceptable.”
“I’d rather have 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own. ”
– J. Paul Getty
“If you understood residual income, you’d walk through a brick wall to get it.”
“If you just help enough people get what they want, you’ll eventually have everything that you want.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Pissing into the wind is like voting for Obama” Jim P
#3 “You learn more from failure than from success; don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
Truee story cause it’s happen to me all the times
“Pray for potatoes, but bring a hoe.”
“Act, don’t react.”
A quote I live toward is, “Say, O bretheren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.” Baha’u’llah
Life is achieved by parachuting over the trails of your ego, and loving the footprints left in its wake.
Ups, agree
Life is hard by definiton
Sunrise – a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.
My eyes are catching the sunrise.
“It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years”
There is nothing which is impossible
If you mean it you dream of it and make it
Be positive, patient and persistent.Skip the negative thoughts.The best is yet to come.
Impossible is nothing when you reaaally want or neeed something!!!! Amen
Live until you die !!!
what screws up up most in life is the picture in our head of how its supposed to be.
Isn’t that the truth?!
The best speeches are not filmed by camera 😀
nice collection
“Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”
Thank you
Here’s my sentence, or to be precise, the command that has changed my life: Let go or be dragged.
No need of motivation if you love what you’re doing.
An individual could be motivated, but never be force to love.
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression
thank you for this
Super Inspiring! Thanks so much!
Here’s one of my favorites:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do it. What the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
One of my fav quote
Nothing is impossible only impossible takes a little longer time…
My early elementary school (1st/2nd grades) had the motto “Be Your Best Self”. I have always remembered that and tried to live by it throughout my life.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond.
Happiness is a choice.
Can’t make chicken salad with chicken #$%^.
Sure life is hard(painful or unfair) but it is better than the alternative.
Help me Help you !
i like the 1st and the 2nd sentences the most.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Great comments, I would like to add another :: Never judge a person until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
One that has always stuck with me is “A flexible person never gets bent out of shape.”
My favourite quote-If you don’t change anything, nothing will change.
“Don’t let grass grow on the path of friendship”
“There’s no problem so big that it can’t be made worse by my own bad attitude.”
“In the anxiety of what isn’t, remember the joy of what is.”
cindy collins
Nothing is impossible, just improbable.
I actually keep a list of sayings that I’ve written over the years (and some that I just co-oped and adapted). A couple that guide my life are:
“Grant yourself 5 minutes to weep, moan and wail; then shut up and get on with it.”
“If you can’t stand on your own two feet, then you’ll just have to stay there on the floor.”
“If you don’t learn to laugh at Life, you’re just going to end up shooting somebody.”
If the hyper link on my name works, you can see the rest of the ones I’ve published so far (fair warning, contains foul language). I revisit it every so often to add new gems that occur to me.
Favorite Quote –
Simplicity is just complexity, done well.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
My inspirational quote is: “Decide on what YOU think is right, and stick to it.”
Thanks for sharing ….The one that I like in recent times is ..”End of man is action and not thought.though it be of the noblest”…Bruce Lee
Another favorite of mine attributed to Bruce Lee:
“Do not fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the problem.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”
words I remember from college…from visiting prof Larry Halpern “have fun, make money, be ethical”
The one I want to share is ” Strength is life, weakness is death “
Never Look Back:
If Cinderella had gone back for her shoe
She would never have become a princess.
Be the change you would like to see in the world – Ghandi
Nice and wonderful quotes
“A single sentence can either make your day or in the same time ruin somebody’s day.” I fully agree with this statement.Quotes really can cheer up people .
My personal favorite is “If you accept your limitations ou go beyond them”
Thank you for sharing.
“if you hang around a cripple, you start to limp”
Love the quote – and so true. We all journey through this life sharing a common experience but have our own perspective as well. To suddenly capture and hold ones life and work with others for achievement is one of the greatest gifts that can be given.
Successful people do the things, that unsuccessful people are not willing to do
My quote is:
Everything is connected, the strings are there if you want to see them.
Great sentences
Great quotes. Very inspiring.
Wayne Gretzky once said “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” How can you achieve if you don’t even try!
Excellent quotes. My favorites are from Oscar Wilde or Churchill!
Don’t look back, you’re not going that way!
It is not hard work that wear men out, but it is wrong work that wear them out.
“What are you doing to justify your existence?”- Annette Beauregard
What others think of you is none of your business
excelent great quotes
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is all you need”
Hey, I just needed 1 last quote from my new article and I think I will use this one. Thank you!
Optimism, it’s the difference between falling and flying
“Luck favors the prepared”
Don’t let success go to your head and failure go to your Heart 🙂
“Life is what happens when your plans go wrong”
I love that one Jimi.
Comfort is the enemy of achievement. That sentence really spoke to my soul. I’ve done some pretty awesome things when life has had me cornered and under intense pressure to act and produce favorable results.
Great great post. THanks
My favorite quote is….Don’t allow the sorrow of yesterday spoil the happiness of today!
I love quotes also, like most females!
I learned from the book The Perks of Being A Wallflower that “Things change, and friends leave, and life doesn’t stop for anybody.” I also learned that it was okay to feel things because It was my life I was living, not just watching happen.
Have loved this quote for years:
This above all, to thine own self be true.
Only came across this one yesterday:
There are 7 billion people in this world. Don’t let one person ruin your day.
I just realize the truth in #1. I think it’s totally right, and I’m sure most people don’t know the fact is
Shruti’s thinking is to good.lage raho india
I love this. One of my favorite quote is simply, “she believed she could, so she did.” 🙂
I love quotes just as much as I love affirmations. Both have the power to lift you higher
Beth
Great inspirations! The 2nd one touched me most: “Climb mountains not so the world can see you but so you can see the world”
The following one in regards to our thoughts have sticked with me deeply for the longest time: “Be careful what you wish for”
Thanks for those wonderful words of deep wisdom!
Thanks for a great list! Mine: “You can only captain your own ship.”
Such motivating sentences. I love collecting some nice quotes and emotive language in my mind so when I face a situation where I feel stuck or at a loss I have something to turn to. When I do push-ups I always remember the quote about “I only start counting when it starts hurting” (I cannot remember if it was from Muhammad Ali or Bruce lee :S)
For the same reason I like motivational videos.
LOVE that one! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
‘The opportunity of a lifetime, must be taken in the lifetime of the opportunity!’
Thanks for sharing!! Here’s mine: If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.
–Mario Andretti
Great Chris!
This is such a Nice list of Quotes .. I am saving all these because I will share them with my friends on Fb and Google Plus..
I also have so many fav quotes and once of them is : Those who complete their sleep, can’t chase their dreams..
lovely .,these are really inspirational …
Great article, Comfort is the really the enemy of achievement sometimes!
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations”
The question isn’t who’s going to let me. The question is who’s going to stop me.
– Howard Roarke, The Fountainhead
Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during this race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then in the end, we will have fulfilled our potential and performed well.
– Professor Porsche
Most people think failure is the opposite of success, but it’s not. Failure is a required ingredient in the creation of success.
– David Wendkos
Great thoughts … I like it.
Wherever fear is, go there. Beyond it lies dreams personified.
nice post Comfort is the really the enemy of achievement sometimes
wow,Amazing quotes.Thanks for sharing.I like it.
Nice Grate Quotes, Thanks For Sharing.
“PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE AND PERSPIRATION MAKE UN UNBEATABLE COMBINATION FOR SUCCESS” Napoleon Hill
awesome quotes ..very motivating indeed..i would like to add one:
“do the things you fear and the death of feat is certain”
Awesome All These Sentences And Thanks For Sharing This
Good Thinking For This And I Like This
“Attitude and Effort are Everything!” — Larry Gelwix
Excellent.. nice quotes i love this
Thanks for these beautiful quotes….they save all people from bad life to have a better life….l really love them..
thank u very much , i like your website it is so useful , can help someboby like me…
Wow..its nice collection
Great post and lots of collection…
really mind blowing post written by you thanks for posting
awesome post thanks a lot
awesome thoughts i like this post and waiting next post thanks for sharing
A lot of great wisdom here. I especially like the one about motivation being necessary daily, like bathing.
A few that have always stuck with me are
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
~Winston Churchill
“Chance favors only the prepared mind”
~ Louis Pastor
And
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
~Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Thank you for the quotes Glenn! Glad you liked the collection.
Very inspiring sentences! Mind blowing, thanks for sharing.
This is very true, some people have overlooked