Chinese Proverb Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

When the winds of change blows, some people build walls and others build windmills.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.

If your mind is strong, all difficult things will become easy. If your mind is weak, all easy things will become difficult.

Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.

Opportunity knocks at the door only once.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; Be afraid only of standing still.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Control your emotions or they will control you.

A bad word worshiped will echo a hundred miles.

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Che Guevara Quotes | Quotsagram

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Every day people straighten up their hair, why not their heart?

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The best form of saying is being.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible.

Better to die standing than to live on your knees.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

If you can find ways without any obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals.

Let the world change you and you can change the world.

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Steve Maraboli Quotes | Quotsagram

If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.

If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.

Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step in your life.

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.

Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You don't owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that’s beautiful to create something that is fake.

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Steve Maraboli Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored.

Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

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Steve Maraboli Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

Think of what makes you smile, makes you happy, and do more of that stuff.

Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.

I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth, I must walk away. I owe it to myself. I owe it to my future.

Don't live your life as a spectator. If no one is cheering or booing you, it means you're not in the game.

Yesterday was not your defining moment. The calendar moved forward; why not you?

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step in your life.

Take action, an inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burned; some roads are never meant to be traveled again.

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life, you are, your own poison.

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Walt Disney Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to do something truly great.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing(Disney) was started by a mouse.

I believe in being an innovator.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

All you’ve got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you’ll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work, then try to trump it.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is no imagination left in the world.

That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

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Karl Marx Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence; abolition of private property.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

There is only one way to kill capitalism: by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

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Maya Angelou Quotes collection #3 | Quotsagram

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Be present in all things, and thankful for all things.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

My mission in life is not to merely survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.

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Maya Angelou Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Ask for what you want, and be prepared to get it.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done, to try and love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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Maya Angelou Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If you get, give. If you learn, teach.

Hate; it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

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Robert Downey Jr. Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

I know very little about acting. I am just an incredibly gifted faker.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.

You need to know what to do when the sun is not shining.

To me, friendship means loving tolerance.

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

Discipline for me is about respect. It’s not even about self-respect; it’s about respect for life and all it offers.

Worrying is like praying for something that you don’t want to happen.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

It doesn’t matter whether or not you can act. If you can go into a room and make these sweaters want you, that’s what’ll get you the job.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.

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Adam Smith Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it is enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Every man lives by exchanging.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

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