“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“A man is only as good as his words are.”
― Frank Sinatra
“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.”
― Vin Diesel
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
― Les Brown
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
― Plato
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
― Robert Jordan
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there”
― George Harrison
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
―Charles R. Swindoll
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
― Lana Turner
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky
“Chivalry: It’s the little boy that kisses my hand, the young man who holds the door open for me, and the old man who tips his hat to me. None of it is a reflection of me, but a reflection of them.”
― Donna Lynn Hope
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
― Gordon A. Eadie
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope
“The gentleman is dignified but not arrogant. The small man is arrogant but not digified”
― Confucius
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
“A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.”
― Alessandra Torre
“To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”
― George Savile
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
― Luigi Pirandello
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
― Henri Bergson
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“A gentleman will never allow a lady to feel less than grand.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius
“A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Niki Lauda
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
― Thomas Malory
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
― Les Brown
“Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it. The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders. The world has a habit of making room for the person whose words and actions show they know where they are going.”
― Napoleon Hill
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
― Woody Allen
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”
― Nathan W. Morris
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ”
― Anthony Robbins
“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Idowu Koyenikan
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
― Henry Ford
“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
― Og Mandino
“Today is the only day in which we have any power.”
― Steve Maraboli
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
― Oscar Wilde
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
― Dale Carnegie
“The nature of life is such that if you allow it to flow, life is a beautiful experience. If you hold back, it becomes a misery.”
— Sadhguru
“The most important things in life are the connections you make with others.”
— Tom Ford
“You’re only as good as the chances you take.”
— Al Pacino
“Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”
— Alex Hitchens
“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”
— Rocky Balboa
“We walk away from our dreams afraid we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”
— William Forrester
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
― Jaggi Vasudev
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
— Buddha
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.”
― Roman Payne
“Great men are not born great, they grow great.”
― Mario Puzo