39 Life Changing Quotes

After writing a recent post about Vision Boards and how effective they can be in defining and inspiring your lifestyle design, I have put together this list of some great life changing quotes that could be used when creating a lifestyle design vision board.  These are some of the quotes that I am really identifying with at the moment and I will be including a few in my new lifestyle design vision board.

1. “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful” – Annette Funicello
2. “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” – Frank Costello, The Departed
3. “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.” – Buddha
5. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.” – Ken Blanchard
7. “The fears you don’t face imprison you.” – Robin Sharma
8. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers
9. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – General George S. Patton
10. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” –  Henry Ford
11. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
12. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” – Buddha
13. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles F. Kettering
14. “Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.” – Eric Butterworth
15. “Some things have to be believed to be seen”. – Ralph Hodgson
16. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” – James Allen
18. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
19. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” –  Ernest Holmes.
20. “Excellence is not an exception, its a prevailing attitude.” – Colin Powell
21. “Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.” - Jawaharal Nehru
22. “After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.” Italian Proverb
23. “There are no problems – only challenges and situations.” – Eckhart Tolle
24. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather
25. “As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.” - Jules Renard
26. “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars (Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe).” – Latin Proverb
28. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi
29. “We will either find a way, or make one.”  - Hannibal
30. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
31. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
32. “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” - Mary Shelley
33. “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” - Plutarch
34. “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” - William James
35. “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” - Solomon Ibn Gabriol
36. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley
37. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” - Herbert Bayard Swope
38. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” - Earl of Beaconsfield
39. “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” - Evan Esar

I would love to hear some of your favorite quotes so please write a comment with your inspiring quotes and help me develop my new lifestyle design vision board.

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