The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

1. Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy T. Bennett

2. Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. All I insist on and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4. And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Suzanne Collins

5. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

6. Courage, my dear heart.

C. S. Lewis

7. Courage is nothing but fear holding on a minute longer.

General Patton

8. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

9. Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Emiliano Zapata

10. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Bill Widener

11. But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years—and it opens.

Marcel Proust

12. Believe yourself. The whole world will believe you.

Niladri Sekhar Dash

13. Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Winston Churchill

14. Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Paulo Coelho

15. Failure is simply a signal to move forward.

Henry Ford

16. Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Adair

17. Fake it till you make it.

Proverb

18. For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess and you with it!

Friedrich Nietzsche

19. Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil

20. From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

21. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

22. For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Eric Roth

23. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

Justin Cook

24. Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

25. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb

26. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

27. I don't know what's right or wrong, but I'm not going to let anyone stand in the way of me trying to figure it out.

Jordan Peterson

28. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville

29. I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

30. I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Edison

31. I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

32. If it is a good idea, then go ahead. It is much easier to apologise than to get permission.

Grace Hopper

33. If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

Hillel

34. If we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything.

35. If you're going through hell, keep going.

36. If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Charles Bukowski

37. If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski

38. In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Lewis Carroll

39. It is only through staking one's life that freedom is won.

Friedrich Hegel

40. It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Sylvester Stallone

41. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

42. It is solved by walking.

Saint Augustine

43. It is better to do something once than to say it a thousand times.

Proverb

44. It's true that I considered killing myself, but I thought as I was already standing over the water, that if I considered myself a strong man all along, then let me not be afraid of shame now.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

45. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

46. Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.

Marcel Proust

47. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

48. Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

49. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

John Heywood

50. My only secret is that I never quit doing it.

Thomas Kinkade

51. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

52. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

53. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

54. The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.

Democritus

55. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

56. The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.

Marcus Aurelius

57. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

58. The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you're no longer willing to stay where you are.

J. P. Morgan

59. The hero always rises at the darkest times.

Jordan Peterson

60. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

61. The only way out is through.

Robert Frost

62. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

63. The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

64. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

65. The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

66. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

67. There are only two ways of life in the world: rotting and burning. Cowardly and greedy people choose the former; brave and selfless people choose the latter.

Maxim Gorky

68. Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

Paulo Coelho

69. Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.

Henry van Dyke

70. We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

Saul Alinsky

71. What can be, unburdened by what has been.

Kamala Harris

72. Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

73. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.

Mahatma Gandhi

74. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

75. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

76. Without courage, you cannot consistently practice the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

77. When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Will Rogers

78. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

79. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Elon Musk

80. When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways: either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Dalai Lama

81. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Proverb

82. When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it—fight back!

Donald Trump

83. When the world says, 'Give up.' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.

84. When the going gets rough: turn to wonder.

Parker J. Palmer

85. You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Hermann Hesse

86. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

87. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

88. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky