“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed
“Things change, and they don’t change back.”
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 488
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
John Barrymore (1882–1942) American actor of stage, screen and radio
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism