25 Of The Most Powerful Quotes Ever Spoken

1. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

3. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” – Sigmund Freud

4. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

5. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

6. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne

7. “Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

8. “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” – Unknown

9. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

10. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

11. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

12. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino

13. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

14. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

15. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

16. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” – C. Joybell

17. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney

18. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey

19. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

20. “Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.” – Unknown

21. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry van Dyke

22. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit

23. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw

24. “If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time – help someone else.” – Chinese proverb

25. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

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