21 amusing quotes that might just make you smile

04/15/2025 by

If you’re seeking some amusing quotes, dear reader, then today’s collection might be what you’re looking for. I hope so, anyway.

Unfortunately, the authors are all unknown, so I haven’t been able to add credits. However, it would be a genuine pleasure to include credits if readers can shed any light on their origin. So, please do let me know.

In the meantime, enjoy today’s 21 amusing quotes:

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Amusing quotes (1-10):

For the best seat in the house, you’ll have to move the dog.

The best things in life are free. The rest are too expensive.

Sometimes the best part of my job is a chair that swivels. 

Never let your best friends get lonely; keep disturbing them.

The best way to show a giraffe your love is to knit a scarf for it.

I wanted to make a clever chemistry joke, but the best ones argon.

Kids, I don’t know if our ceiling is the best ceiling but it’s definitely up there.

What’s my best non-swearing insult? “I hope you step on a Lego in your bare feet!”

A woman’s dream is not to find the perfect mate. A woman’s dream is to eat without putting on weight.

Laughing is one of the best exercises; it’s like running inside your mind. You can do it almost anywhere, and it’s even better with a friend.

Amusing quotes (11-21):

I didn’t say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you.

He who laughs in a crisis has found someone to blame.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I don’t have a bucket list, but my to-do list is a mile long.

Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

I’ve got a lot of jokes about retired people, but none of them work.

Some people are like clouds. When they go away, it’s a brighter day.

I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.

I don’t need a hairstylist; my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning.

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

I’m great at multitasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.

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3 Essential life lessons learned you should know

04/14/2025 by

Many regular readers will be familiar with the essential life lessons learned that I’ve included here today. However, that won’t be true for everyone, I’m sure. It all comes down to experience, wouldn’t you agree?

Well, dear reader, please don’t feel that you must make every mistake yourself to learn. It’s acceptable to learn from others, too.

These essential life lessons learned can shape our perspectives and guide our decisions.

Learning directly from the mistakes of others is a perfectly valid strategy. You can also listen to and learn from lessons others have learned the hard way.

There’s no finer education than the University of Life, School of Hard Knocks.

So, allow me to offer you three essential life lessons learned that you’d do well to bear in mind.

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3 Essential life lessons learned:

1. Money can’t make you happy:

If you’re not happy without money, then having money won’t change how you feel about yourself.

We experience happiness not through the things we purchase but through our philosophy as well as our relationships with other people. Human beings are social animals, and we all need other people.

If you want to be happy, you must never lose sight of the most important people in your life, i.e. family and friends.

Spend time with them and enjoy their company, especially your children. Make the most of every minute you have with your loved ones.

Yes, of course, go out there and make some money. I’m not suggesting money doesn’t matter because it does. It’s up there with oxygen for sustaining a life worth living.

So you must manage your money carefully and invest some of it too.

Enjoy some of your money, of course, and buy nice things occasionally too. Life’s too short not to enjoy at least some of your hard-earned cash from time to time.

However, never focus on money and work to the exclusion of your family and friends. Without them, you have nothing. Money is important, but the people in your life are far more important.

You could have all the money in the world, but without your friends and loved ones, you’d have nothing at all.

2. Life is too short to do a job you hate:

You should never do anything for money alone.

Yes, you need an income, and yes, it’s nice to have plenty of money in your pocket. Let’s face it; we’d all like to have plenty of money, wouldn’t we? That’s human nature.

However, no amount of money will compensate you for the drudgery of doing a job you hate.

If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, you won’t do it well. And if you don’t do it well, eventually you’ll come unstuck. It will all end in tears. Now, is that really what you want, dear reader?

Remember this also: one day, you will die. You’re not going to live forever, nor would you want to.

What a shame it would be if on your deathbed you felt you’d completely wasted your life. Now, how bad would that be?

So find a job you enjoy.

That is important. You’ll spend one-third of your life at work, and that’s a long time to be doing something you hate.

Yes, there will be aspects of every job that you might find tedious or frustrating. However, it’s important to find something that you mostly enjoy.

And if you haven’t found that job you love yet? Then just keep looking until you find something you’d do for free if you couldn’t earn a living at it.

When it comes to a job, money shouldn’t be your primary focus. Find the right job; do it well; add real value, and the money will follow, all in good time.

3. Greed can lead to expensive mistakes:

There’s a classic telephone scam, which never fails to catch some people out.

The way it works is a salesman or woman working in a ‘boiler room’ somewhere offshore calls you with an offer for you to purchase an asset at a price which they’ll tell you will guarantee you an enormous profit.

It might be stocks and shares, or it might be plots of land in some faraway place, but the underlying message is always the same.

Essentially, they’ll tell you that next to no one knows about the availability of this asset just yet, but when they do, the price of the asset will go through the roof and just keep on heading in an upward direction.

They’ll tell you that whatever they have to offer is a steal and that you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor and make an absolute killing, but you have to buy today or you’ll miss out.

The salespeople always sound friendly and very plausible, and they’ll make it all sound very professional. They’ll even take a little time to make you feel that, really, they’re trustworthy.

This scam plays on our greed and our gullibility.

We believe what we’re being told because we want to believe it. We just love the idea that we might get something for nothing, too.

However, if you part with your money when presented with such an offer, that‘s the last you’ll see of it.

The asset will be worthless or even non-existent. You’ll have been scammed.

Furthermore, if you’re foolish enough to buy, you’ll also be put on a ‘sucker list’ which means you’ll get inundated with similar calls from other high-pressure salespeople offering similar ‘deals‘.

In reality, any deal that sounds too good to be true will always prove to be too good to be true.

There’s no easy money to be had anywhere. Take that from someone who’s spent a lot of time looking.

And anyway, think about it: if it was that good a deal, why would they be telling you?

If there was a killing to be made, they’d simply invest their own money and bag the ‘profit’ for themselves, surely?

Never allow yourself to fall for it.

And never, ever allow yourself to be bounced into buying anything just because they tell you that this deal is only available today.

In sales language, that’s known as a ‘call to action‘. It’s the oldest sales trick in the sales handbook.

The idea is to bounce you into making a purchasing decision before you have time to think it all through properly.

Don’t be a mug, and don’t be foolish enough to line other people’s pockets at your own expense. As the old saying goes:

Invest in haste, repent at leisure.

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Absolutely guaranteed secret to success

04/13/2025 by

Looking for the secret to success, dear reader? You’re not alone. So many people seek the secret, but very few find it.

Well, here’s Barbara Sher with some common-sense observations about life and success.

This is just part of a presentation she gave at the “Big, Cheap Weekend Workshop” in New York in July 2010. So it’s a decade ago now, but her observations are timeless, and they’re just as valid today as they were back then.

This video essentially is a ‘taster,’ but if you’re not familiar with Barbara’s work, then it might inspire you to check out her other videos on YouTube and indeed her public appearances, should she appear at a venue near you.

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The Power of Personal Responsibility

Now here are my thoughts on success.

I believe that personal responsibility is the key to success.

If you’re drifting and waiting in the hope that something will happen? Let me tell you, it won’t.

Well, not unless you’re lucky and just happen to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right thing someone needs.

For most of us, that’s never going to happen.

For almost everyone, we must make things happen ourselves.

Let me share a secret with you. The magic ingredient to achieving your dreams isn’t luck or some mystical force. It’s you.

It’s all about you grabbing the ball and running with it.

What do I mean?

I mean, you must embrace the power of personal responsibility.

You are the captain of your ship, sailing through the sea of life. You can steer your ship anywhere you want it to go.

Yes, there will be storms and occasionally calmer waters, but ultimately, you decide which way to steer your ship.

Personal responsibility is about acknowledging that your choices, big and small, are the compass guiding your journey to wherever you’re going.

You must decide what it is you want out of life. You must decide the lifestyle you’d prefer to live. And you must work out how to get it.

Once you know where you’re going, you must set yourself some goals.

And then you must pursue those goals with determination and a willingness to work hard to achieve them.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

We all make choices in life, all the time, and we must accept the consequences of those choices.

In short, we must take responsibility for those choices, and if we pursue good choices, they should lead to the best outcomes for us.

If you embrace personal responsibility and stop making excuses, you will start to make progress towards the life you want.

If you become proactive rather than reactive, you will be knowingly steering the good ship “You” in the direction of your desired destination.

Today’s choices shape tomorrow’s outcomes. It’s that simple.

So, are you ready to take the helm?

Are you ready to grasp the personal power you have and own your journey to success?

It won’t always be easy, but at least it will be yours.

Trust me, the feeling of achieving something because you made it happen is amazing, and you won’t regret it.

So, embrace personal responsibility and achieve your full potential.

You can do it! It won’t be easy, but it can be done, and people do. So can you!

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21 thought-provoking quotes about opportunity

04/11/2025 by

Quotes about opportunity can be inspiring in my experience. They’re always positive, which I like.

A past littered with perceived failures can often leave us feeling that we’ve blown our chances of success in life.

We can often feel that somehow we’re destined for nothing more than a series of unexceptional jobs with modest remuneration because we didn’t do well in school or we didn’t make much effort in our early years, or whatever.

I know this feeling is common among people who left the education system with little in the way of certificates and diplomas to show for all their years in the classroom.

However, certificates and diplomas are just pieces of paper. They’re nice to have, but they don’t, in any way, define you.

Above all, you must always remember this, dear reader: your future is not defined by your past. Mistakes made can always be rectified.

A perceived failure is not the end of the world; it’s just an outcome you didn’t want. You can have as many chances to try again as you’re prepared to take.

Never forget that the future is an endless stream of opportunities, which you can choose to take or not.

That’s right! You can choose to take them or not; it’s down to you and you alone. You can make your life whatever you want it to be, as long as you’re prepared to make changes and work hard.

So focus on what you want with determination and hard work, and success really can be yours, regardless of any mistakes you may have made in the past. The past was a series of lessons, not a life sentence.

Here are 21 thought-provoking quotes about opportunity.

Reflect on all these quotes, dear reader, and then think about your life and whether it’s all you’d like it to be. If it isn’t all you’d like it to be, then it’s time to make some changes and go boldly in search of a better life experience.

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Quotes about opportunity (1-10):

  1. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
  2. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ~Winston Churchill
  3. You create your opportunities by asking for them. ~Shakti Gawain
  4. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. ~Bruce Lee
  5. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ~Bobby Unser
  6. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon
  7. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~Winston Churchill
  8. Most people miss opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas A. Edison
  9. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
  10. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. ~William Arthur Ward

Quotes about opportunity (11-21):

  1. To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. ~Benjamin Franklin
  2. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ ~Brian Tracy
  3. Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ~Orison Swett Marden
  4. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ~Richard Branson
  5. Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don’t miss opportunities. ~Ivan Glasenberg
  6. Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known. ~Ronald Reagan
  7. My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities. ~Mario Testino
  8. People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new. ~Travis Bradberry
  9. As an entrepreneur, you tend to see opportunities where others see none. ~Naveen Jain
  10. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. ~Jim Carrey
  11. Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. ~Julie Andrews

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21 quotes about peace to make you think

04/10/2025 by

If you’re looking for quotes about peace, I’ve curated 21 excellent quotes for you to discover the power of peace and why it matters.

So, dive deep into the wisdom of history’s greatest minds and hearts as they eloquently convey the profound essence of peace. From leaders to philosophers, poets to pioneers, these 21 handpicked quotes are not just words but a testament to the undying human spirit’s quest for harmony and tranquillity.

With every quote, you’ll be reminded of why peace is the ultimate treasure and why we must guard it fiercely.

Embark on this journey of serenity and let the words inspire, rejuvenate, and anchor you in these turbulent times.

Peace is not just a word; it’s a state of mind, and these quotes are your map to rediscover it.

Without further ado, here are today’s quotes:

QUOTES ABOUT PEACE

Quotes about peace (1-10):

  1. We make war so that we may live in peace. ~Aristotle
  2. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ~Buddha
  3. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Indira Gandhi
  4. May Peace be the journey, and may the journey be peaceful. ~Author Unknown
  5. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ~Albert Einstein
  6. Peace is not something that can be kept, it is something that must be made. ~Author Unknown
  7. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa
  8. Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. ~Ronald Reagan
  9. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. ~Thomas Paine
  10. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ~George Orwell

Quotes about peace (11-21):

  1. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ~Virginia Woolf
  2. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi
  3. If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~Desmond Tutu
  4. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~Dalai Lama
  5. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy
  6. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you must work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~Nelson Mandela
  7. It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
  8. We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William E. Gladstone
  9. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. ~Thomas Merton
  10. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. ~John Lennon
  11. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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15 quotes about trust that’ll make you think

04/09/2025 by

Today I offer you some quotes about trust, dear reader.

Trust underpins any relationship if it’s to have any longevity. Strong relationships are built on trust. However, trust is something that can take years to establish and only seconds to destroy.

One thoughtless act is all it takes; one moment of weakness. And once destroyed, trust is almost impossible to win back, certainly to anything like the same degree as before, because people can never quite see you in the same way again.

Securing someone’s trust is a privileged position to be in because it means you’re held in the highest regard. To them, you’re someone with integrity, and you’ve won their respect.

So trust is a very special thing, and once established, it should never be abused. Not if you value a relationship and/or your reputation, at least.

If you’re in a relationship and, for you, it’s not all you would like it to be, then it’s perfectly reasonable to be honest with someone, explain the situation, and move on. They may be upset by your actions, but they’ll appreciate your honesty in time.

However, when you truly value a relationship and you’ve won a person’s trust, then think long and hard before you consider doing anything that might destroy that trust. To do otherwise would mean, almost certainly, you’ll regret it.

And remember this: everything you do, however small, honest, or dishonest, says something to the world about your character. So how do you want to be judged: trustworthy or otherwise?

In my opinion, it’s better to be known as someone honest and trustworthy rather than someone people feel they cannot trust.

No amount of personal gain will compensate for having a poor reputation. I don’t think so anyway.

Here are seven inspirational quotes about trust to help you reflect on its significance in relation to your reputation.

QUOTES ABOUT TRUST

Quotes about trust (1-10):

  1. He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted. ~Lao Tzu
  2. Trust must be earned and should come only after the passage of time. ~Arthur Ashe
  3. You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. ~Anton Chekhov
  4. A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ~Harold Macmillan
  5. Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all must be very selective about the people we trust. ~Shelley Long
  6. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough. ~Frank Crane
  7. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ~Stephen Covey
  8. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ~George MacDonald
  9. Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends. ~Eminem
  10. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~Albert Einstein

Quotes about trust (11-15):

  1. A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ~Charles Kingsley
  2. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. ~Robert E Lee
  3. Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect. ~Mona Sutphen
  4. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington
  5. I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something. ~Lauren Conrad

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31 Quotes by Voltaire to challenge your thinking

04/08/2025 by

Today I am exploring the many quotes by Voltaire.

Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, an 18th-century French writer, historian, and philosopher.

He was famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity (particularly the Catholic Church), and his advocacy for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state.

Voltaire was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, and he was constantly threatened by the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy.

He was also one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally.

For me, he was a great thinker, and many of his observations provided great insight into the human condition.

So here are 31 quotes by Voltaire, which are interesting, thought-provoking, and should challenge your thinking.

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Quotes by Voltaire (1-10):

  1. Better is the enemy of good.
  2. Common sense is not so common.
  3. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
  4. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
  5. The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
  6. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
  7. It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
  8. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
  9. It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
  10. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Quotes by Voltaire (11-20):

  1. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
  2. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
  3. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
  4. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
  5. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
  6. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
  7. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
  8. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
  9. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
  10. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Quotes by Voltaire (21-31):

  1. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
  2. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
  3. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
  4. God is not on the side of the big battalions but on the side of those who shoot best.
  5. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
  6. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature.
  7. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
  8. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
  9. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
  10. We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the Garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
  11. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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21 thought-provoking quotes about love

04/05/2025 by

Today I’m exploring quotes about love.

We all need to feel loved, and we all crave affection. That’s only natural.

However, love is an emotion, so it’s more complex than we’d prefer. It’s complex enough to be beyond the comprehension of most people most of the time.

Love is one of life’s greatest mysteries.

So here are 21 thought-provoking quotes about love to help you reflect on the great mystery of love.

If you’re in love, then I hope it’s reciprocated.

If you’d like to be in love, then I hope you find that special someone sometime very soon.

In the meantime, enjoy today’s quotes.

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Quotes about love (1-10):

  1. Where there is love, there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides
  3. Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr
  4. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
  5. Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. Jackson Brown Jr
  6. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
  7. Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman
  8. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh
  9. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. Audrey Hepburn
  10. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa

Quotes about love (11-21):

  1. The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden
  2. Faith makes all things possible and love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody
  3. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
  4. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
  5. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
  6. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
  7. Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young
  8. I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats
  9. They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. Bil Keane
  10. Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love. Mario Teguh
  11. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr

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21 positive quotes that’ll leave you feeling energised

04/04/2025 by

Do you enjoy positive quotes?

Perhaps you’re looking for something either because you need a little inspiration personally or because you have an audience to inspire.

Possibly you have a presentation to prepare, and consequently, you need some positive quotes to reinforce the points you wish to make.

Words have power:

Words are powerful, and positive quotes can have great power.

As a result, they can lift you, and they can lift an audience too when chosen well. Yet the power of words is not always appreciated in the way it should be.

So, here are some positive quotes that I’m confident will inspire you, and they will rock any presentation in which they’re used.

So please feel free to quote any of them if you feel they’ll help. However, always acknowledge the author when known.

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Words of wisdom:

All of these words of wisdom will make you think, and they will make any audience think as well.

Life can be hard, of course, and achieving success can be harder. However, it can be done, and people do. You just have to believe in yourself. A little help from some positive quotes won’t hurt, though.

So read these positive quotes and inspirational words from so many of the great thinkers, and they might just propel you in the direction of the success you desire.

If they do help you in your quest, I’d be interested to hear your feedback. Feedback from readers is always appreciated.

Positive Quotes (1-10):

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm Forbes

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. ~Lee Iacocca

The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said. ~Mark Twain

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. ~John Wooden

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in. ~Roger Clemens

What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike

Live your life in the creative space and go where others have not yet been; to the fields, the grazing cows have yet to find. ~Alan Alda

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ~Dan Gable 

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don’t know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant. ~John Henrik Clarke

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Positive Quotes (11-21):

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ~Khalil Gibran

Self-pity is a losing strategy. It repels others and weakens you. ~Michael Josephson

We cannot change the cards we are dealt; just how we play the hand. ~Randy Pausch

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. ~Lewis Carroll

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step. ~Author Unknown

On days when I don’t work, I am working on maintaining my image, just like an athlete. ~Linda Evangelista

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. ~Walt Disney

Whatever age you are, you’ve always got a contribution to make and new experiences still to enjoy. Retire from paid employment perhaps but never retire from life. ~Roy Sutton

It is not enough to exist, you must LIVE. It is not enough to survive, you must THRIVE. It is not enough to care, you must COMMIT. It is not enough to seek success; you must seek SIGNIFICANCE. It is not enough to live long, you must LIVE WELL. ~Michael Josephson

Life is too short to waste it doing nothing. Make every day count! We don’t know when we will leave this world, so cherish every moment you have with loved ones. Never regret anything because everything happens for a reason. Enjoy every day and smile. Life is what you make it. ~Author Unknown

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40 quotes about life lessons and mistakes to inspire you

04/03/2025 by

Today, dear reader, I offer you a collection of quotes about life lessons and mistakes. Lessons and mistakes go together, and who amongst us has not had to learn a few lessons from the mistakes we’ve made?

Let me emphasize here that there’s nothing wrong with making mistakes if we learn from them and don’t make the same mistakes too frequently.

So, dive into this collection and see if any of the ideas expressed here resonate with you. Every quote tells a story. And every quote inspires.

Enjoy them all, and please feel free to use them and/or pass them on.

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Quotes about life lessons and mistakes (1-10):

You may not be perfect, but neither is anyone else.

Look after your own interests because no one else will.

Just because it’s dismissed as a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Just because it looks genuine doesn’t mean it’s not fake. That goes for people, too.

It’s what we learn from our mistakes that is the basis of that valuable commodity known as experience.

In life, we don’t get to choose the cards we’re dealt. We can only play the hand we’re given as best we can.

Giving is easy, but if you need to take it back, that’s virtually impossible. So, be careful what you give if there’s any chance that you might need to take it back.

Prepare now, and you’ll be ready when opportunity knocks. And opportunity will knock; it always does. Life is an endless stream of opportunities there for the taking by the enterprising and fleet-footed.

Dissenting voices matter. Never be afraid to challenge the orthodoxy. You’ll be dismissed as being mad or a bigot, but that just means that whatever is in your best interests is not in the best interests of your critics.

You may be angry at the way you’ve been treated. You may feel you have every right to be angry, but so what? A chippy attitude will never win over hearts and minds. You’ll catch more flies with sugar than you will with vinegar.

Quotes about life lessons and mistakes (11-20):

You get out of life what you put in. Life’s what you make it.

Together we are strong. If enough of us band together, we are invincible. We don’t have to accept the unacceptable.

Those who can only see the virtue of their own opinions will always be keen to silence people seeking to express an alternative opinion.

You can’t train experience. Experience must be gained the hard way. Going out there, doing things, making mistakes, and learning from them.

You can always earn more money, but you can’t get more time. With time, once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s your most precious resource, so use it wisely.

Communication works best when we keep it simple. Complicate it and it can only lead to misunderstandings. Misunderstanding is at the heart of most problems between people. So complicating communication, however well-intentioned, can only end badly.

We all make a living by selling something to someone. In exchange for adding value in some way to other people, we earn money. The more value we add, the more we’ll earn.

Just because people don’t share their troubles doesn’t mean they don’t have any. People can be fighting personal battles we know nothing about. So, be careful when judging others.

You can choose to be whatever you want to be, but you must accept that there will be trade-offs. Nothing’s free. There’s always a price to be paid, and that price must be paid first.

Never agree to anything that would give a government too much control over your life. If there’s one thing of which you can be 100% certain, it is that you cannot trust any government.

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Quotes about life lessons and mistakes (21-30):

Keep life simple whenever possible, and it is usually possible.

It matters not that you make mistakes, but only how you respond to them.

If you want the best life for yourself, you’ll need to carve it out for yourself.

If you don’t define who you are, someone else will. Live life on your own terms.

Ironically, fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, yet wiser people are full of doubts.

You can do a hundred things right, but the only thing others will notice is the one mistake you made. That’s life.

If a politician doesn’t have the guts to challenge anything that is obviously complete nonsense, then that politician is unworthy of high office. Simple.

If you read newspapers, you’re going to be lied to, or at the very least deceived. No newspaper ever gives a balanced and unbiased account of anything. They’re all produced simply as echo chambers for their target audience.

In big enough numbers, we all have political power. We don’t have to accept the unacceptable. We can always get like-minded folk together and push back. Never assume someone else will be looking after your interests. That won’t happen.

Ordinary, decent people who think the law is there to protect them are likely to be disappointed. Say something that runs against powerful interests, and it won’t end well, not for you, at least. If you want to go up against powerful people, you’ll need large numbers of people on your side.

Quotes about life lessons and mistakes (31-40):

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

In life, we get the test first, followed by the lesson.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not living a full life.

Life is not about how many times you fall but how many times you can get back up and try again.

Wisdom comes not from never erring but from learning and growing with every mistake we make.

Don’t be so open-minded that your brain falls out. Sometimes you must accept the truth for what it is, regardless of how other people may feel about it.

Just because people say you’re wrong doesn’t mean you are. Those who believe passionately in their opinions being superior to yours are frequently wrong themselves.

The question is not whether you have the time but whether you’re willing to allocate the time. If it’s important to you, then assign time to it. Otherwise, forget about it and move on.

If you want to know anything about where we’re going as a society, then just follow the money. It’s always about the money and who profits. Big money dictates, and someone, somewhere, always profits.

Never assume anything is being done for the good of the people. Politicians only ever give serious thought to the concerns of the people when there’s an election on the horizon and they need your vote.

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