The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

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

Roy T. Bennett

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Suzanne Collins

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

Courage, my dear heart.

C. S. Lewis

Courage is nothing but fear holding on a minute longer.

General Patton

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Emiliano Zapata

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

Bill Widener

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

Believe yourself. The whole world will believe you.

Niladri Sekhar Dash

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

Winston Churchill

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

Failure is simply a signal to move forward.

Henry Ford

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

George Adair

Fake it till you make it.

Proverb

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

Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil

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

Franz Kafka

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Justin Cook

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

Benjamin Franklin

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Herman Melville

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

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Grace Hopper

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

Hillel

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

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

Charles Bukowski

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Friedrich Hegel

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

Sylvester Stallone

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

Confucius

It is solved by walking.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb

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

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

Brian Tracy

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

John Heywood

My only secret is that I never quit doing it.

Thomas Kinkade

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

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

Confucius

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

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

Democritus

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Epicurus

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

J. P. Morgan

The hero always rises at the darkest time.

Jordan Peterson

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

The only way out is through.

Robert Frost

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

Coco Chanel

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

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

Ayn Rand

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Walt Disney

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

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

Paulo Coelho

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

Henry van Dyke

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

What can be, unburdened by what has been.

Kamala Harris

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without courage, you cannot consistently practice the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Will Rogers

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

Malala Yousafzai

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

Elon Musk

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Proverb

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

Donald Trump

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

When the going gets rough: turn to wonder.

Parker J. Palmer

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Winston Churchill

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

Babe Ruth

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

Wayne Gretzky