Quotes that Move Me

Below is a collection of my favorite quotes. Some of them are inspirational and others just make me think or reconsider my perspective on certain aspects of life. Although most of these people are famous, some of the names you won't recognize at all. I took a few of them from blogs and articles from common people like you and me. I like the idea that anyone can make an impactful statement regardless of notoriety or reputation. Read them and use them as your circumstance lies.

“Meals embody the principles and the disposition of the person who eats them. Food means choices and choices mean a chance to fulfill our principles.” --Ryan Holiday

“Our greatest fear as individuals should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” Francis Chan

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." --Albert Einstein.

How will someone know you love them if you don’t tell them that you love them too? --Spongebob.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -Albert Einstein.

"Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." --Harvey Mckay.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, stop and reflect.” --Mark twain

“The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise…forms best calculated to do them lasting good.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Neither the individual nor the race is improved by alms-giving.” – Carnegie

"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” --Paulo Coelho (The Alquimist).

“Whatever you do, work at it with all of your heart, as working for the lord, not for men.” Colossians 3:23

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max Dupree

“We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.”
-Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” -James 1:27

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too.” Tim Ferriss

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act." - Paulo Coelho

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"It takes a long time to grow young." - Pablo Picasso

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values." - Bill Ayers

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot