TEEN SOUL POWER
QUOTES FOR LIFE
Morality is nothing but reverence for life.
That is what gives the fundamental principle of morality,
that is, that good consists of maintaining, promoting and enhancing life,
and that destroying, injuring and limiting life are evil."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as you can."
- John Wesley
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Ettiene De Grellet
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." -- Voltaire
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!" -- Theodore Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. -- Eleanor Rossevelt
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
-- James Allen
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -- Confucius
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How far you go in life depends on your being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
-- George Washington Carver
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Into each life some rain must fall." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -- Robert Byrne
"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." -- Marcus Aurelius
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." -- Marcus Aurelius
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
-- Morrie Schwartz
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-- Hugh Downs, Journalist
"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day." -- Booker T. Washington
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to know what really matters most." -- Stephen Covey
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." -- Og Mandino
"The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people." -- Leo Tolstoy
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." -- Mother Teresa
"No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless." -- Drake
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,but anyone can start today
and make a new ending." -- Maria Robinson
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." -- Aristotle
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -- Titus Livius
The famous story an old Cherokee chief supposedly told his grandson: The chief said: "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible battle between two wolves.
One wolf represents fear, anger, pride, envy, lust, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
resentment, lies and cruelty. "The other wolf stands for honesty, kindness, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, friendship, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too," he
added.
The grandson reflected on these words for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
-- Source Unknown
"Always give without remembering; always receive without forgetting."
-- William Barclay
"Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive." -- Anonymous
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
-- Mark Twain
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much was in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little bit better because I was important in the life of a child." -- Anonymous
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” -- George S. Patton
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." -- Denis Waitley
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and
friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." -- Thomas Dreier
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
-- Booker T. Washington
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong." -- Longfellow
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” -- Denis Waitley, Author
"For anything worth having, one must pay the price: and the price is always work, patience, love, and self-sacrifice ---- not money, not promises, but the gold of real service." -- John Burroughs
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Some people come into your life as blessings, others come into your life as lessons." -- Mother Teresa
"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours." -- Zig Ziglar
That is what gives the fundamental principle of morality,
that is, that good consists of maintaining, promoting and enhancing life,
and that destroying, injuring and limiting life are evil."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as you can."
- John Wesley
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Ettiene De Grellet
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." -- Voltaire
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!" -- Theodore Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. -- Eleanor Rossevelt
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
-- James Allen
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -- Confucius
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How far you go in life depends on your being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
-- George Washington Carver
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Into each life some rain must fall." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -- Robert Byrne
"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." -- Marcus Aurelius
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." -- Marcus Aurelius
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
-- Morrie Schwartz
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-- Hugh Downs, Journalist
"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day." -- Booker T. Washington
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to know what really matters most." -- Stephen Covey
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." -- Og Mandino
"The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people." -- Leo Tolstoy
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." -- Mother Teresa
"No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless." -- Drake
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,but anyone can start today
and make a new ending." -- Maria Robinson
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." -- Aristotle
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -- Titus Livius
The famous story an old Cherokee chief supposedly told his grandson: The chief said: "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible battle between two wolves.
One wolf represents fear, anger, pride, envy, lust, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
resentment, lies and cruelty. "The other wolf stands for honesty, kindness, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, friendship, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too," he
added.
The grandson reflected on these words for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
-- Source Unknown
"Always give without remembering; always receive without forgetting."
-- William Barclay
"Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive." -- Anonymous
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
-- Mark Twain
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much was in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little bit better because I was important in the life of a child." -- Anonymous
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” -- George S. Patton
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." -- Denis Waitley
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and
friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." -- Thomas Dreier
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
-- Booker T. Washington
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong." -- Longfellow
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” -- Denis Waitley, Author
"For anything worth having, one must pay the price: and the price is always work, patience, love, and self-sacrifice ---- not money, not promises, but the gold of real service." -- John Burroughs
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Some people come into your life as blessings, others come into your life as lessons." -- Mother Teresa
"F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours." -- Zig Ziglar