Who doesn’t love a good quote? Quotes can be the most profound, the most enlightening, the most comedic, the most ironic, and the most thought-provoking words ever spoken in the human language! Quotes can speak volumes and tie things together in such eloquent fashion, they literally go down in history! They can make us laugh, cry, love more, fear less, think deeper, and inspire us to reach new heights.
After watching all of the ‘Quote Love’ happening on Facebook and Twitter lately (Lots of people sharing lots of quotes!) , I thought it would be great to get everyone to share their favorite quote (or quotes) with the community here! Let’s put together a compilation of the most empowering, inspirational, funny, and just flat-out BEST quotes around…
Let’s celebrate a little “Quote Love”!
Here are a few of my favorites:
“One who sees himself as everything is fit to be guardian of the world… One who loves himself as everyone is fit to be teacher of the world.” ~ Tao
“Abundance will shine through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature” ~ The Secret
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to live the life that is waiting for us.” ~ EM Forster
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of someone’s life with perfection” ~ The Baghavad Gita
“The meaning of life is to find your gift… The purpose of life is to give it away” ~ Joy J. Golliver
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” ~ Jimi Hendrix
Now let’s hear yours! Speak up and share your favorite quote for the benefit of everyone reading this! Your participation is GREATLY appreciated and acknowledged! Leave a comment down below with a few of your favorites… And let’s see who can come up with the best ones!
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” Marianne Williamson
Jacqueline McGinnis´s last blog ..Facebook
May 19th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
LOVE IT! I’m reading her book right now. Powerful!
July 9th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Wow, really profound, never heard that one before.
This is my Marianne Williamson favorite:
“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ”
Alison @ Femita.com´s last blog ..15 Powerful Quotes by Powerful Women to Start Your Day With
May 20th, 2010 at 1:58 am
Quotes Rock! My favorite one you have listed Katie is:
The meaning of life is to find your gift The purpose of life is to give it away ~ Joy J. Golliver
… however … My ultimate favorite is a verse from The Bible:
“In this world you will have trouble but take heart for I have overcome the world” – These the words of Jesus. Now, I’m very much into the new age philosophy and psychology of thinking, believing, conceiving, creating, visualizing, feeling and manifesting, etc. (I’m in the middle of reading some spiritual books that are Completely Unrelated to Christianity and I am also re listening to the entire audios for Think and Grow Rich OVER AND OVER) … but my faith in Jesus Christ will never come Second to these other earthly “wisdoms” – I grew up in a Christian home, therefore those words of Christ’ really mean a lot to me. I pray I’ve added some value to your life.
God’s blessings are best,
Curt
Curt Bizelli´s last blog ..Do I Need To Be Money Driven To Make A Lot of Money? Im worried Ill become less compassionate! HEY, GOOD QUESTION!
May 20th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Quotes are good, but you do need to take time to read them and actually take them in, so many people just post them or re-quote them without really thinking about them.
My favourites, up on my wall, are:
- “believe in your dream and they may come true, believe in yourself and they will come true” anon
- “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.” Michael Jordan
Alec
Alec Hanson´s last blog ..Diary of a Land Finder Virgin!
May 20th, 2010 at 9:05 am
“Your life is an occasion…rise to it.”
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (movie)
“Dream a better dream…” Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
I love kids’ movie, since I have 5 children, I’ve seen plenty. Some of the greatest quotes I have heard, or lessons I have learned have been within those movies. The best part is being with my children when the lesson is learned.
Joy
Joy Marino´s last blog ..MLM Upline, Puppy Mills and You
May 21st, 2010 at 6:34 am
SSome Quotes below:
“Strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will” Ghandi
“Come From Contribution” Jan Ruhe.
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever” Carrie Russell
“We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are” Jim Rohn
Kerry Painter´s last blog ..Community Not Competition..I Like It
May 23rd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Chuck Bluestein´s last blog ..Senator Arlen Specter
May 25th, 2010 at 6:21 am
There is no effort without error or shortcoming
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” …Theodore Roosevelt
May 26th, 2010 at 4:26 am
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is more youer than you!” Dr. Seuss
“If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good!” – Dr. Seuss
Sukie Baxter´s last blog ..Rolfing is NOT Torture
May 26th, 2010 at 4:33 am
Oh! I can’t believe I forgot my guiding light quote, the one I remember each and every day:
“The way you walk across a room is the way you walk through life.” Vivian Jaye
Sukie Baxter´s last blog ..Rolfing is NOT Torture
May 30th, 2010 at 8:08 am
“Success in Life is absolutely the amount of Joy you Feel in the moment” Abraham-Hicks
Francesco´s last blog ..Why are you so beautiful? Because I’m happy!
May 31st, 2010 at 7:02 am
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
June 1st, 2010 at 1:36 am
“It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”~Jenny Craig
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Wow, I can’t resist this, I love great quotes, so inspiring! I never get tired of them. Here are a couple of my favorites:
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” ~Doris Mortman
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Henry David Thoreau
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde
“It’s not the blowing of the wind that determines your destination, it’s the set of the sails.” Jim Rohn
Thanks for all the great quotes!
Vicki
Vicki Berry´s last blog ..Three Keys to Improving Your SEO
June 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am
“Take the Time it Takes, so it Takes Less Time.” – Pat Parelli
June 11th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”
Luke 12:34
“Now Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” Hebrews 11:1
“Nothing is Impossible with God” Luke 1:37
“This is the Day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it” Psalm 118:24
“All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you” J.R.R. Tolkien
“Above all shadows, rides the Sun” J.R.R Tolkien
Emily Giuffre´s last blog ..How to Keep Your Blog Updated Consistently
June 15th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxey
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something it makes me incapable of doing it. But, when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. Manatma Gandhi
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole stair case. Martin Luther King Jr.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go: they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein
My very favorite quote is:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Manatma Gandhi
June 17th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
My favorite quote is “CHANGE is a fact, LOSS is an opinion”
Season´s last blog ..Harmony Festival 2010
June 21st, 2010 at 2:22 pm
“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
Jennifer May´s last blog ..My Top 20 Reasons WHY NOT To SURRENDER To Life’s Obstacles… But OVERCOME And FACE Them
June 28th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Here is one more I love!!!
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Jennifer May´s last blog ..WHY Is Having A Blog So Important To Your Success Online
June 29th, 2010 at 10:57 am
“To move the world we must first, move ourselves.” -Socrates
“For things to change you have to change.” -Jim Rohn
“When you change the way you look at things, what you look at changes.” -Wayne Dyer
“When the WHY gets strong, the HOW gets easy.” -Jim Rohn
“People over estimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what they can do in five.” -Tony Robbins
“If your cup is sweet, drink it with Grace, if your cup is bitter, drink it with communion.” -unknown
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” -Ephesians 4:29
“Love forgets mistakes.” -Proverbs 17:9
“As a leader you should be hard-headed and soft-hearted.”
-unknown
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Don’t put up the walls. The same wall that keeps out dissappointment, keeps out happiness.” -Jim Rohn
“It takes two to speak the truth; one to speak and one to hear.” -Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge.” -John C Maxwell
“Leadership is a choice, not a position.” -John C Maxwell
“Success is hard; become friends with that.” -Les Brown
“We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” -Douglas Lawson
“What you’re going through is transportation to where you’re going to.” -Magic Johnson
“You are where your thoughts have brought you.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s ironic, but past success can be the fiercest enemy to future success.” -John C Maxwell
“If I had fours hours to chop down a tree, I would spend three hours sharpening my axe, one hour chopping the tree.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.”
-Peter Lowe
“Fear knocked at the door of my mind. Faith answered and found no one there.” -English Proverb
“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.” -Andrew Carnegie
“Success isn’t pursued; it’s attracted by the person you become.” -Jim Rohn
“You’re either pushed by pain, or pulled by vision.” -unknown
“A man’s gift makes room for him.” -Proverbs 18:16
“Faith without works is dead.”-Jesus Christ
“Wisdom uninvested in labor is wasted.” -Jesus Christ
“You follow me.” -Jesus Christ
That last one is by far the greatest quote. It’s not what you but who you are behind what you’re saying.
-Wayne Flotree
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Great list! Thank you for sharing…
July 14th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Hey Katie,
Here’s mine:
Wisdom, “Your trial, by itself, doesn’t make sense. Imagine baking a cake. Eating flour alone won’t make sense. Eating baking soda alone won’t make sense. Eating brown sugar alone won’t make sense. But if you mix them together, and bake a cake, it makes a lot of delicious sense. Your trials, when mixed with God’s blessing, will make sense too. All things will work for your good. Trials included.” @ http://vur.me/143/swom
James Parmis´s last blog ..Supplement To Social Networking Google Social Networking
July 20th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
There is a great quote from Street Fighter II the movie, “If good men do nothing, that is evil enough.”
TJ Chambers´s last blog ..Jul 14- Network Marketing Consultant for MLM Help
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:52 pm
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.” ~Johannes A. Gaertner
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Hey Katie,
Here’s three of my favorite quotes:
“God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we will ever hope to use in our lifetime. Our gift to God is to DEVELOP as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime.” -Steve Bow
“An educated person is not necessarily a person with an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they wish or it’s equivalent without violating the rights of others.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Change is inevitable. Personal growth is a choice.”
-Bob Proctor
Michael Stead´s last blog ..Share Your Story
July 27th, 2010 at 8:04 am
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and this string is, Attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you….We are in charge of our Attitudes.”
– Charles Swindoll
August 1st, 2010 at 7:55 am
Hi Katie,
It’s amazing how some inspirational quotes can really hit home and cause action…One of my top quotes is “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” ~ Lily Tomlin
August 1st, 2010 at 2:48 pm
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it; if you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it’s a waste of time looking for him further.” Gandhi
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Love all your quotes Katie! The first one by Jacqueline is one of my favorites. Here’s another one of my favorite quotes of all time by Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Wayne shares some really great quotes too. I like your idea of sharing all these super quotes! Truly inspiring!
Elmar Sandyck´s last blog ..Exceptional Customer Service- Does Your Company Have It
August 6th, 2010 at 8:11 am
thank u so much for this good article
August 6th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
“The job of an entrepreneur is to look for problems and challenges and solve them. The better he is at solving problems the more successful he becomes.” Dr. Said
Dr. Said´s last blog ..Lesson 1- People Don’t Care about the Company- Product or Compensation Plan
August 14th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experiences is not.
~ Dave
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken!”
August 23rd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein-
Aki Wood´s last blog ..How I’m Filling My Pyramid With Gold
August 24th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
“When you start reflecting on the moments in your life that have been the most difficult, you start to see the lessons embedded in them, and extract insight to move forward a wiser and more spiritual person.” -K.P.
August 29th, 2010 at 11:57 am
“Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet that holds fast to the heel that crushed it.” – Mark Twain
August 30th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I have so many favorite quotes and I put a new one up most days on my twitter and fb pages. But I’d say the one that is most true to my beliefs and my work as a relationship and couples counselor is:
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
-Friedrich Hebbel
Dr. Adam Sheck´s last blog ..The Seven Types of SEX Funny!
August 31st, 2010 at 7:51 am
This is a quote from a poem titled “What It’s All About” by Edmund Baranowski (awanderingpoet.com)
First of all, I know, it ain’t about me– about my story: what happened to me:
It’s about community. It’s about unity. It’s about you, and me, connecting — sincerely.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:26 am
If it is to be,
It is up to me.
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:18 pm
“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind!”