Positive sayings – My top 30 sayings and quotes, great for motivation!

-- Ishmail Downes

The most important things in life aren't things.
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E. M. Forster

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson

You can only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
-- Maria Edgeworth

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
-- W. N. Taylor

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?
-- Charles Augustus Lindbergh

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.
-- Carl Jung

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
-- Richard Bach

The journey is the reward.
-- Chinese Proverb

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-- Friedrich Engels

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
-- Confucius

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
-- George Van Valkenburg

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare.
-- Japanese Proverb

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
-- William Lloyd George

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
-- Doug Firebaugh

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
-- The Dhammapada

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-- Theophrastus

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Joseph Addison

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill