How to Flourish: 22 (More) Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” –Mahatma Ghandi
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” –Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” –Harold Stephens
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” –Kahlil Gibran
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” –Charles Kettering
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.” –Josh Billings
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” –Thomas Jefferson
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” –Louisa May Alcott
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” –Lao Tzu
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” –Ian McLaren (often misattributed to Plato)
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” –Maria Robinson
“Don't cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” –Dr. Seuss
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” –Elisabeth Foley
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” –Winston Churchill
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” –Dwight Eisenhower
“There are too many people praying for the mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is the courage to climb them.” –Raili A. Jeffery
“The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something.” –Thomas Edison
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” –Julius Hare
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” –Confucius
“The web of life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” –William Shakespeare
“You cannot learn to skate without being ridiculous... the ice of life is slippery.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
Want more? Check out the first volume of quotes at How to Flourish: 17 Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing.