„Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.“

„You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.“

—  Frederick William Robertson British writer and theologian 1816 - 1853

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.

„It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life“

—  Robin S. Sharma Canadian self help writer 1965

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

„Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.“

—  Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954

„You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.“

—  Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012

Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984)
Variant: You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

„In life, you get what you believe you deserve.“

—  Jay Samit American businessman 1961

Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 35

„I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life. Forcing people to give it to you, or making them want to give it to you.“

—  Candace Bushnell, book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

„What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?“

—  Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Source: Vanishing Acts (2005)

„I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse English author 1881 - 1975

„Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.“

—  Danielle Steel, book The Gift

Variant: She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Source: The Gift

„If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.“

—  Robertson Davies, book Fifth Business

Source: Fifth Business

„Don't you know when you give life, then you become what you are?“

—  Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967

What You Are
Everyday (2001)

„You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?“

—  Joseph Gurney Cannon American politician 1836 - 1926

Maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, reported in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (March 4, 1923); Congressional Record (March 4, 1923), vol. 64, p. 5714.

„Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.“

—  Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008

Quoted in Craig Modderno, "Newman remains animated at 81," Reuters (2006-06-12)

„You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.“

—  Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954

„The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.“

—  Ben Stein actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944

As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85

„Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.“

—  Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954

„Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei“

—  Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

„Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.“

—  Cecelia Ahern, book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

„You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.“

—  Philip Larkin English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922 - 1985

Letter to Monica Jones, 22 October 1967