21 things you need to know in life to avoid its pitfalls

01/19/2026 by
21 things you need to know in life

There are a lot of things you need to know about life, dear reader. In fact, there are far too many for a single blog post, of course. So today, let’s just focus on 21 things that I think are important.

So, I offer you 21 quotes that I think reflect those things you definitely need to know about life.

I hope you find them useful and interesting.

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Things You Need To Know In Life (1-11):

  1. You don’t decide your future. You make choices, and your choices decide your future. So you’d better learn to make good choices.
  2. Falling down happens to everyone. Staying down is the problem. So get up, dust yourself off, and try again.
  3. Success is enjoying what you do while having sufficient money to live your preferred lifestyle comfortably.
  4. Remaining loyal to the circumstances into which you were born is not a noble act. It’s perfectly reasonable to want more from life. Just because you were born poor doesn’t mean you have to remain poor.
  5. If the world is to be a better place, then we should focus on that which we have in common, not that which separates us.
  6. As long as we’re not hurting anyone else, how we choose to live our lives is no one’s business but our own.
  7. There’s no such thing as easy money. Any suggestion to the contrary will be a scam, and you’ll get burned if you’re unwise enough to get involved.
  8. If something cannot be subjected to scrutiny and criticism, then it’s probably not a good idea in the first place.
  9. Never believe that you cannot be fooled, because we can all be a little gullible occasionally. That’s what scammers rely on. So, be on your guard.
  10. If your job can be done from anywhere, then someone anywhere can do your job. So, when companies are looking to save money to increase their profits, what do you think they’ll do?
  11. We have to deal with life as it is and not how we like it to be. We must protect ourselves and our interests because no one else will do it for us.

Things You Need To Know In Life (12 – 21):

  1. Get to know and be inspired by people who fit the future you want. Don’t allow those from your past to limit your ambition.
  2. If we view the world through the prism of media headlines, it can only ever be a depressing place. Avoid the media, and suddenly everything seems much brighter.
  3. With gambling, there’s only one consistent winner, and that’s the casino or the bookmaker. That’s why they’re in business.
  4. A promotion at work is not a reward for what you’ve done in the past; it’s the opportunity to show what you can do in the future.
  5. If we don’t expect much from people, then we won’t get much from people. Low expectations lead to poor results. Expect more to get more. Leadership is about getting the best out of people, not going soft on them.
  6. We’ll keep making the same mistake until we learn the lesson the mistake was intended to teach us. Life’s a classroom, and the lessons never stop.
  7. Your years on this earth will teach you far more than you could learn in any university or college of further education.
  8. If you’re with the wrong person, the sooner you let them go, the sooner you’ll have a chance of finding the right person.
  9. It matters not that you are rich, famous, and important. What matters is how you treat other people, especially those who can do nothing for you.
  10. Celebrity pronouncements via social media might look like they’re sharing insight into their lives. They’re not. They’re simply promoting their brand and whatever it is they’re selling. They aim to carefully construct a hip and edgy image. In short, it’s fake.
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15 quotes about fear to help you put it into perspective

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What is fear? A simple question, you might think, but fear is an emotion that’s often misunderstood. So today, dear reader, let’s explore some quotes about fear to put it into perspective.

Sometimes we can be paralysed by fear, and yet it’s only the body’s natural mechanism for heightening our sense of awareness in times of potential danger.

Fear sharpens our sense of the risks involved in given situations. By definition, risk is the possibility of an outcome we don’t want.

However, risk and reward have a direct correlation. No risk, no reward.

Yes, by taking a risk, you might end up with an undesirable outcome, but equally, you might achieve a desirable prize, too.

Our sense of fear should make us tread carefully, of course, but it shouldn’t stop us from treading at all. It’s all about weighing up the percentages and taking a sensible approach to any given situation.

In short, avoid unnecessary risks but take calculated risks.

If we are to be successful, we must face up to our fears. We must recognize the reason for our fear, but that fear should not control us. We should control the fear. As the saying goes, we should feel the fear but do it anyway.

So I say to you, never let fear stop you from having a go. The alternative would be to look back with regret at what might have been. And who wants that?

It’s better to be someone who can look themselves in the eye and know they’ve always given life their best shot, regardless of how they were feeling at the time.

Here are 15 quotes about fear to help you put fear into perspective.

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Quotes about fear (1-10):

  1. Fear is the mother of foresight. ~Thomas Hardy
  2. I say I am stronger than fear. ~Malala Yousafzai
  3. Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. ~Napoleon Hill
  4. Always do what you are afraid to do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
  6. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. ~ Clement Stone
  7. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~Dorothy Thompson
  8. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. ~Helen Keller
  9. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ~H.P. Lovecraft
  10. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. ~Rosa Parks

Quotes about fear (11-15):

  1. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ~Harry S Truman
  2. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~Nelson Mandela
  3. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ ~Eleanor Roosevelt
  4. A lot of people live in fear because they haven’t figured out how you’re going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I’ve come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful – what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck – and then figuring out what I can do about it. ~Chris Hadfield
  5. I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom – how great is that? ~Soledad O’Brien
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27 quotes about self that’ll make you think

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Today, I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes about self because we should never underestimate the importance of self. 

Self is the people we are, but it’s also the people we could be. The mountains we could climb and the things we could achieve with a little self-belief, determination, and hard work.

As human beings, we all have enormous potential, but sadly, for many people, that potential is never fully realised.

Dear reader, believe in yourself, and you could go a very long way indeed. Your potential is limitless. Other people succeed, and so could you.

So be inspired, and then go and show the world your authentic self.

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Quotes About Self:

  1. Be that self which one truly is. ~Soren Kierkegaard
  2. To thine own self be true. ~William Shakespeare 
  3. Be yourself, but always your better self. ~Karl G. Maeser 
  4. Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. ~Queen Latifah 
  5. The authentic self is the soul made visible. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach
  6. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. ~Charles Dickens
  7. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ~Napoleon Hill 
  8. Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest. ~Napoleon Bonaparte 
  9. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? ~APJ Abdul Kalam 
  10. There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. ~Henri Frederic Amiel 
  11. To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbours is genius. ~Minna Antrim 
  12. Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self. ~Priscilla Presley 
  13. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ~Marcus Garvey
  14. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ~Toni Morrison
  15. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self. ~Benjamin Franklin 
  16. Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. ~Vanessa Hudgens 
  17. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. ~Aldous Huxley 
  18. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ~John Dewey
  19. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 
  20. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~Aristotle 
  21. Friendship with one’s self is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
  22. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ~Ernest Hemingway
  23. People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz
  24. Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow You into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. ~Karen Salmansohn 
  25. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ~Golda Meir 
  26. Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom. The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~Stephen Covey 
  27. If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination. ~Jonny Kim 
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Businesslike: A poem about the need to protect your interests

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Here’s a poem about the need to be businesslike.

You must always be businesslike in everything you do, especially if you’re a creative person reliant on agents and advisors. Never assume people won’t rip you off. They will, if they’re given the chance.

Easy money can tempt even normally honest people, should they feel the need.

Never take your eye off the financial ball. Failing to do so could prove very costly.

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POEM ABOUT BEING BUSINESSLIKE

Remember:

Not everyone is honest. Not everyone can be trusted. Many, if not most, people can’t be trusted. Just because they seem like thoroughly decent people doesn’t mean they are.

If it’s your money, you must know where it is and have control over access to it.

If you assume you can’t trust anyone, 99.9% of the time you will be correct.

Never trust anyone who doesn’t have as much to lose as you do.

Be businesslike and protect your own interests. If you don’t, no one else will. That much can be guaranteed.

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25 powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning

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Today, I am exploring powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning.

Life is for living, and we live it just once. If we put off until someday those things on our bucket list, then we’ll never experience them at all because someday never comes. Sadly, that’s a fact.

In your old age, your memories will not revolve around the size of your house or the model of the car you had. Your memories will be of the people you knew, the experiences you had and how they all made you feel.

Family and friends matter more than material possessions, and no experience is worth foregoing for the sake of an extra couple of years in a care home at the end of our lives.

Always remember that nothing matters more to you than your loved ones and friends. Jobs and careers won’t look after you when you’re ill, infirm or old. So, get your priorities right.

Work hard, of course, and pursue your dreams too. However, don’t trade money and material possessions for a life well-lived. That would be a poor trade and one you’ll regret.

Here are 25 powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning.

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Powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning (1-15):

  1. We live in a rainbow of chaos. ~Paul Cezanne
  2. Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~William Wallace
  3. Into each life, some rain must fall. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  4. Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
  5. We don’t remember days, we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese
  6. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ~Josh Billings
  8. The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. ~Audrey Hepburn
  9. The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ~William Morris
  10. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha
  11. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, and a tragedy for the poor. ~Sholom Aleichem
  12. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. ~Dalai Lama
  13. The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. ~Eminem
  14. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ~Marie Curie
  15. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. ~Erma Bombeck

Powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning (16-20):

  1. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
  2. Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different. ~Author Unknown
  3. All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~Albert Einstein
  4. 20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain
  5. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. ~Barbara Bush

Powerful quotes to help you reflect on life and its meaning (21-25):

  1. Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives. ~Sara Paddison
  2. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. ~Groucho Marx
  3. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
  5. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Lady Dorothy Nevill
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Why an investment in knowledge pays dividends

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Today, I want to explain why an investment in gaining knowledge is important and should be considered seriously.

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~Benjamin Franklin

You don’t get paid for the hour; you get paid for the value you put into the hour. Everyone must understand that important distinction, dear reader.

You get paid for the value you add.

The more value you can add, the more you’ll get paid over time.

It’s really that simple.

If you can solve problems for people with the skills you’ve got, then you can earn an excellent living.

The question is, what underpins your skills and your ability to add value? The answer to that question would be knowledge, of course.

Knowledge comes from learning, and learning is a lifelong process.

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Learning is an investment

The quote at the top of this post from the venerable Benjamin Franklin reminds us of the importance of learning. Learning is an investment in ourselves.

We all have an enormous capacity to consume and retain knowledge in our heads, and that knowledge is then a currency with which we can trade. The more knowledge we have, the more value we can add.

When it comes to investing, nothing will pay you a better dividend than making sure you have a good education. And I stress that it’s a lifelong process. It doesn’t end when you leave school or college.

And it’s not about whether or not you went to college or university. Important as they may be, learning can be achieved in many ways.

Self-education is the best education

Knowledge can be gained through reading books, listening to audio and video tutorials, and challenging yourself to master anything that appeals to you.

Learning from hands-on experience, making mistakes, and learning the lessons you can take from any mistakes you’ve made.

In particular, if you want to master the game of money and all matters financial, then you need to become a seeker of financial knowledge and know-how.

You need to become a reader and a keen student of finance. To be successful in investing, of course, you need to know what you’re doing. You need financial education.

The price of ignorance

If you think that education is expensive, then think again. The price of ignorance is far greater.

Ignorance can prove to be very costly indeed. And that’s true in every aspect of your life.

Getting an education may seem expensive, but it’s nowhere near as expensive as ignorance.

So, if you’re not already, become a reader.

The investment in yourself is well worth the effort, and it’ll pay you a handsome dividend.

As the late, great Jim Rohn once said:

“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”

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15 quotes about courage and what it all means

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Today, I am exploring quotes about courage.

Have you ever been faced with a challenging situation, dear reader? One that requires courage. One with which you think you may not be able to cope? And maybe you tell yourself you lack the courage?

Well, don’t be too hard on yourself.

Everyone feels fear in challenging situations; that’s a natural part of human nature. It’s our fight-or-flight response to danger.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the mastery of fear.

Fear is just an instinct that serves to protect us. It makes us tread carefully in circumstances that otherwise could be a danger to us.

Courage is the strength to rise above that which we fear and to remain in control of our instincts.

Courage is having the mental strength to feel the fear and do it anyway.

And courage is not allowing our instincts to prevent us from doing what is right.

With every experience, we grow stronger and our confidence increases. If we can overcome one challenge, we can overcome another. So, believe in your own ability and have courage, dear reader.

Here are 15 inspirational quotes about courage to help you reflect on what it means and why it’s important.

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Quotes about courage (1-10):

  1. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George S. Patton
  2. Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
  3. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ~Vincent Van Gogh
  4. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain
  5. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney
  6. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~John F. Kennedy
  7. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~TS Eliot
  8. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~Andre Gide
  9. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~Muhammad Ali
  10. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. ~Billy Graham

Quotes about courage (11-15):

  1. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
  2. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour. ~Aristotle
  3. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~Nelson Mandela
  4. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ~Steve Jobs
  5. My message, especially to young people is to have the courage to think differently, the courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, the courage to discover the impossible and to conquer problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to young people. ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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25 quotes about believing in yourself to inspire you

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Looking for some quotes about believing in yourself, dear reader? Then I’ve got 25 great quotes for you today.

I’m a great believer in self-belief. If you want to achieve anything, then it starts with believing in yourself. It doesn’t matter whether others believe you can do it, as long as you believe you can do it.

So if there’s something you want to do, and it’s something you believe you can do, then go for it. What’s the worst that can happen? You try and fail. And if that happens, at least you won’t spend the rest of your life wondering what might have been.

And who knows, you might make a huge success of it all. Others succeed, so why not you? And why not now?

Just give it a go. Either you’ll succeed or you’ll learn a valuable lesson. Either way, you win. So what’s not to like about that.

So be inspired by these 25 quotes about believing in yourself. And feel free to share them with your friends.

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Quotes about believing in yourself:

  1. You’ve got to keep believing. ~Dontrelle Willis 
  2. Luck is believing you’re lucky. ~Tennessee Williams 
  3. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. ~Theodore Roosevelt
  4. Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength. ~Nikki Bella 
  5. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ~Voltaire 
  6. This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams. ~Howard Schultz 
  7. Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson 
  8. When times are down, keep believing, keep working hard, and things will pick up. ~Harry Kane 
  9. Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ~Martin Luther 
  10. A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ~Thomas Carlyle 
  11. There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting. ~Hope Hicks 
  12. Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  13. There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~Maya Angelou 
  14. When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. ~Elvis Presley 
  15. I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it. ~Jurgen Klopp 
  16. You can do anything as long as you don’t stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart. ~Keke Palmer 
  17. Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. ~Marina Abramovic 
  18. It’s all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are. ~Normani Kordei 
  19. Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don’t deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life. ~Jon Huntsman, Sr. 
  20. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. ~Louisa May Alcott 
  21. Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I’ve wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it. ~Belinda Johnson 
  22. What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. ~Joseph Prince 
  23. Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you’re an artist and you’re taking risks, then you’re doing something right, even if some people don’t get it. ~Kate Voegele 
  24. Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. ~Leah LaBelle 
  25. Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease. ~Amy Morin 
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19 inspirational quotes about life and success

01/19/2026 by

Today, I am exploring quotes about life and success.

If you want to be successful, observe successful people and do what they do. If it worked for them, then it will probably work for you.

In life, if you’re determined and you’re prepared to work hard, you can achieve almost anything. However, success means different things to different people.

What does it mean for you?

Perhaps you’d be happy with a steady job and a decent wage?

Alternatively, success for you might be becoming a Hollywood movie star, possibly?

Well, it doesn’t really matter how you define success. Just decide what it is you want and then go for it.

Here are 19 inspirational quotes about life and success to help you reflect on what it all means to you.

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Quotes about life and success (1-13):

  1. Don’t go through life, grow through life. ~Eric Butterworth
  2. Action is the foundational key to all success. ~Pablo Picasso
  3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~Albert Einstein
  4. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ~Dale Carnegie
  5. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. ~Mark Twain
  6. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. ~Stephen Hawking
  7. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha
  8. The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. ~Eminem
  9. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~Albert Schweitzer
  10. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington
  11. I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ~John D. Rockefeller
  12. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~Lao Tzu
  13. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ~Vince Lombardi

Quotes about life and success (14-19):

  1. Grit is that extra something that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. ~Travis Bradberry
  2. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. ~ Clement Stone
  3. We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect. ~Michelle Obama
  4. At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure. ~Erin Cummings
  5. Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. ~Napoleon Hill
  6. Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine. ~Chris Hadfield
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Poem about the dangers of Internet dating

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Today I offer you a poem about the dangers of internet dating.

We live in a world where bringing together lonely hearts can be tricky. This is why internet dating was invented. However, lonely hearts are vulnerable and can be easily exploited.

And if something can be easily exploited for money, it will be. Internet dating can be a minefield for the unwary.

When looking for love online, you must be very careful. Always be conscious that if your relationship is conducted solely through cyberspace, you have no idea whether the person with whom you are interacting is genuine or not.

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