Due to the popularity of the first 31 quotes, I’ve decided to go ahead and present you with 31 more. Quotes are one of those things that are extremely short and simple – but convey the most meaning. They give chills down your spine to motivate and inspire you to achieve what ever it is you want to achieve. In whatever field you’re working in – you can find chilling quotes to inspire and motivate you – but here I present you 31 most chilling quotes in regards to life in general.
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.” –Henry Ford
- “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” – Khalil Gibran
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
- “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” –Robert Anthony
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
- “There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” Jean-Paul Sartre
- “In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away” – Shing Xiong
- “There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.” – Doris Lessing
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
- “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.” – Albert Einstein
- “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao-Tze
- “I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make”. – Donald Trump
- ““Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing” – Muhammed Ali
- “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” – Steve Jobs
Originally posted on: Ars Spiritus
These are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteHenry David Thoreau's writing style was very peculiar... he wrote in short sentences that where seperately connected... so actualy most of his writings are thousands of quotes put together :P ... self-reliance, the rhodora and from nature are my favorites <3
ReplyDeletewhat is there about my life that keeps you from living your own?
ReplyDeletePlease take out that one from Donald Trump, it contradicts all the other qoute's, the others are telling you to explore and be adventurous. This one tells you to be conservative which i don't think is what this website is about..
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty deep Steve Jobs. That must be why I have to update my iPhone every single month.
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ReplyDeleteVery hard for me to approve of the Christopher Columbus quote, in light of the genocide he fostered by "crossing the ocean"
ReplyDelete3, 5, 11 and 26...those are my favorites to USE and consider...
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