Throughout History, there have been characters who, through their ideas, thoughts and phrases, have left a legacy to humanity that allows us to remember them and put many of those teachings into practice.
These reflections have been passed down from generation to generation thanks to books, movies or any other way that helps us see life in a better way. Here you will find a compilation of them through this selection of the best memorable phrases
Memorable phrases that invite you to reflect
To preserve the impact that experiences have had over time, we bring a list of the best memorable phrases, which will lead you to appreciate your own experiences.
1. Someone sits in a shadow today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. (Warren Buffett)
Leave a footprint that allows others to walk on it.
2. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. (Zig Ziglar)
Victory is only achieved through a correct attitude.
3. Every day I ask myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am going to do today?” If the answer is “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. (Steve Jobs)
You are the only one who can change both your way of thinking and the way you act.
4. Happiness is achieved when what one thinks, what one says and what one does are in harmony. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Pay attention to what you say, do and think since everything must be in complete synchronization.
5. Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills. (Konrad Adenauer)
Love can cure almost all ills.
6. It is better to remain silent and look stupid than to speak and clear up doubts definitively. (Groucho Marx)
When there is nothing good to say, it is better to remain silent.
7. True leaders must be willing to sacrifice everything for the freedom of their people. (Nelson Mandela)
Those who dedicate themselves to doing good for others are worthy of admiration and memory.
8. Some people are so false that they no longer distinguish that what they think is exactly the opposite of what they say (Marcel Aymé)
You have to be consistent in what you think and what you say.
9. It is human to err and foolish to remain in error. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Errors are something natural in man, but the problem arises when we remain in them.
10. No man is good enough to rule others without their consent. (Abraham Lincoln)
No one has the right to rule over others.
11. It is better to act at the risk of regretting it than to regret not having done anything. (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Don’t stop doing anything for fear of failure.
12. There is no need to go backwards or to give yourself momentum. (Lao Tse)
Don’t stay in the past, just move forward
13. The world is not in danger from bad people but from those who enable evil. (Albert Einstein)
Never become an accomplice in something that harms other people.
14. The measure of love is to love without measure. (San Agustin)
Love is a gift that is given without measure.
15. Living alone is like being at a party where no one pays attention to you. (Marilyn Monroe)
Loneliness is something difficult for some people to cope with.
16. Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait for it is even more important, but taking advantage of the right moment is the key to life. (Arthur Schnitzler)
Don’t miss any opportunity that arises.
17. The wise man never says everything he thinks, but he always thinks everything he says. (Aristotle)
It is important that before speaking, you think about what you are going to say.
18. I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I ignore what others may think about them. (Copernicus)
There are times when it is important to listen to the opinions of others.
19. The human body is the chariot; the self, the man who drives it; Thoughts are the reins, and feelings are the horses. (Plato)
Feelings are what make man a good or bad being.
20. He who has more, is more afraid of losing it. (Leonardo da Vinci)
When we want to have more, fear is also present.
21. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. (Picasso)
If you don’t work you will have nothing.
22. The best way to get rid of temptation is to fall into it. (Oscar Wilde)
Fears are eliminated only when they are faced.
23. Doubt is the mother of invention. (Galileo Galilei)
In difficult moments is when the imagination flies.
24. They can cut all the flowers, but they can’t stop spring. (Pablo Neruda)
There are many things that we cannot avoid.
25. At twenty years old everyone has the face that God has given them; with forty the face that life has given them and with sixty the face they deserve. (Albert Schweitzer)
Experience is a virtue that few possess.
26. Our children will not have time to argue about climate change. They will only be able to live with its effects. (Barack Obama)
We must pay attention to the environment so that future generations can appreciate it.
27. The worst fight is the one that is not done. (Karl Marx)
Don’t let fear paralyze you, face each struggle with strength and tenacity.
28. If you want to be happy, be happy. (Leo Tolstoy)
Happiness will only depend on you.
29. Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. (Confucius)
Treat others how you like to be treated.
30. We build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton)
We are wasting time building fortresses around us and not living life to the fullest.
31. There is no night, no matter how long, that does not find day. (W.Shakespeare)
Every problem, even if it is very serious, has a solution.
32. The secret of human existence is not only in living, but also in knowing what one lives for. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Find your purpose in life.
33. I learned that you cannot turn back, that the essence of life is to go forward. (Christie Agatha)
There is only one path, the one ahead of us.
34. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. (John Lennon)
Don’t stop living, life is too beautiful to waste every moment.
35. I would never die for my beliefs, because I could be wrong. (Bertrand Russell)
You always have to look for other opinions.
36. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only option you have left. (Bob Marley)
We will only know our strength when we have to use it.
37. We spend a lot of time making a living, but not enough time living it. (Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Find time to appreciate how beautiful life is.
38. The way to start is to stop talking and start acting. (Walt Disney)
Don’t focus on just the words, but on the actions.
39. Always give more than what is expected of you. (Larry Page)
Always try a little harder.
40. You cannot afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. (Stephen Hawking)
Spiritual disability is the one that is most limiting.
41.- Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. (Steve Jobs)
At all times seek to innovate, only then will you differentiate yourself.
42. Setting an example is not the main way to influence others; it’s the only way. (Albert Einstein)
Conduct yourself in such a way that you can be an example for others.
43. Even people who claim that we can’t do anything to change our destiny, look before crossing the street. (Stephen Hawking)
We are all responsible for our lives and the decisions we make.
44. The most important successes are achieved when there is the possibility of failure. (Mark Zuckerberg)
Don’t be afraid of failure, that allows you to achieve success.
45. A day without laughing is a day wasted. (Charles Chaplin)
Always smile as it is a motivation for others.
46. We hope that anything can happen, and we are never prepared for anything. (Sophie Soynonov)
We want things to happen, but we never prepare for it.
47. Joy, the more you spend, the more you have left. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Never lose your joy.
48. In life there is something worse than failure: not having tried anything. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Don’t give up trying something just because you think it’s going to go wrong.
49. What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Every situation has its lesson.
50. Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)
Nothing is more powerful than education.
51. Don’t take life too seriously; Either way, you won’t get out of this alive. (Bernard Fontenelle)
Life must be taken a little seriously and a little jokingly.
52. Those who do not want to imitate anything will not produce anything. (Salvador Dali)
The examples to follow are those that make you a better person.
53. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. (Erich Fromm)
Put your creativity in motion, only then will you make a difference.
54. History repeats itself, that is one of the mistakes of history. (Charles Darwin)
Life is a circle where everything comes back again and again.
55. There are two kinds of men: those who make history and those who suffer from it. (Camilo José Cela)
You can make a difference.
56. The root of suffering is attachment. (Buddha)
Don’t stay attached to the things that hold you back.
57. It takes little to do things right, but even less to do them wrong. (Paul Bocuse)
Focus on doing things well.
58. I only know that I know nothing. (Socrates)
Never think you know more than others.
59. The world belongs to the optimists; Pessimists are mere spectators. (Dwight Eisenhower)
Bet on optimism, it will take you on the right path.
60. I have no special talents. I’m just passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)
The only talent that is above the others is curiosity.
61. It takes a lifetime to learn to live. (Seneca)
Life is too short to live it.
62. Friends often become thieves of our time. (Plato)
Spend some time with your friends, but not all day.
63. No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them will not make you cry. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Nobody has the right to make you cry.
64. The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Man is the only enemy of humanity.
Avoid having the company of bad people, because they are specialists in making you doubt the honesty of others.
66. To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun. (Charles Baudelaire)
Work dignifies man.
67. There is nothing a man is not capable of doing when a woman looks at him. (Casanova)
A man is capable of anything to get the attention of a woman.
68. If you give fish to a hungry man you nourish him for a day. If you teach him to fish, you will nourish his entire life. (Lao Tse)
It is important to instruct man to have a productive life.
69. Without pain there are no results. (Benjamin Franklin)
Every effort brings its reward.
70. Never break the silence if it is not to improve it. (Beethoven)
If you know how to shut up at the right time, you are the master of your destiny.
71. Wars will continue as long as the color of the skin continues to be more important than the color of the eyes. (Bob Marley)
Unfortunately, skin color is one of the reasons for so much cruelty.
72. Learn to live and you will know how to die well. (Confucius)
If you have a happy life, death will be happy too.
73. The greatest declaration of love is the one that is not made; The man that feels a lot, speaks little. (Plato)
Love is not shown with words, but with actions.
74. What truly matters in life is not the goals we set, but the paths we follow to achieve them. (Peter Bamm)
Don’t set your sights on the goal, but on the path that leads you to it.
75. Life is a movie that starts again every morning when we wake up. Forget about your mistakes, every day you have a new opportunity to succeed and achieve happiness. (Norkin Gilbert)
Yesterday is gone, today is what counts.
76. If you believe you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t. Whether you think one thing or the other, you are right. (Henry Ford)
What you think, whether negative or not, will be what you see.
77. If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sadness. (Chinese proverb)
In any situation, stay calm.
78. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find; knock and the doors will open to you. (Jesus of Nazareth)
Seek help when you need it, especially from God.
79. The message sent is not always the message received. (Virginia Satir)
What is said is not always what the other person perceives.
80. If it is good to live, it is even better to dream, and best of all, wake up. (Antonio Machado)
Don’t stop yourself from living your dreams.
81. Success is not measured in money, but in the difference it makes in people. (Michelle Obama)
Success is not about money, but about the authenticity of people.
82. If you want to be happy, you must resign yourself to seeing others happy. (Bertrand Russell)
Happiness is obtained through others.
83. Remember that you are only as good as the best thing you have ever done in your life. (Billy Wilder)
We are all capable of doing good things.
84. Living is not just existing and creating, it is knowing how to enjoy and suffer and not sleep without dreaming. To rest is to begin to die. (Gregorio Marañón)
Life must be lived with its difficulties and its charms.
85. A person who sees life at age 50 the same as at age 20 has wasted 30 years of life. (Muhammad Ali)
Life is a constant transformation.
86. The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you do. (Sir James M. Barrie)
Don’t focus on doing what you want, but on wanting what you do.
87. Everything that is eaten without need is stolen from the stomachs of the poor. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Help must be given to those in need.
88. I think, therefore I am. (Rene Descartes)
You have to think before acting.
89. Every day we know more and understand less. (Albert Einstein)
It is not only about acquiring knowledge, but about putting it into practice.
90. Make love and not war. (John Lennon)
Wars have never left anything good.
91. We don’t know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that’s a fact. (Sartre)
People usually don’t know what they truly want.
92. Sometimes, if you want to change a person’s mind, you first have to change the mind of the person next to them. (Megan Whalen Turner)
If you want to change the world, start by changing your thoughts.
93. Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one that drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say. (John Steinbeck)
Man is the most irrational animal that exists.
94. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. (Benjamin Franklin)
True friends become family.
95. One is the owner of what he remains silent and the slave of what he speaks. (Sigmund Freud)
That’s right, be careful with your words, they can make you fall into a bad move.
96. Love is so short and oblivion is so long. (Pablo Neruda)
Forgetting someone can be more difficult than you think.
97. Whoever has not suffered what I have, should not give me advice (Sophocles)
Nobody knows the suffering of others.
98. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. (Martin Luther)
Words go with the wind, that is why you have to leave everything in writing.
99. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)
If you really love what you do, then don’t call it work.
100. One becomes great by what he reads and not by what he writes. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Reading is a great way to learn.
101. Our greatest glory is not to never fall, but to rise every time we fall. (Confucius)
It doesn’t matter if you fall a thousand times, you just have to get up every time.
102. When you hear an inner voice that tells you that you can’t paint, paint as much as you can and see how it will quiet down. (Vincent van Gogh)
Don’t pay attention to negative thoughts.
103. Only those who do not know how to take advantage of it lack time. (Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos)
Make good use of your time since he doesn’t come back.
104. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking)
Knowing how to adapt to changes is the most sensible thing to do.
105. A friend to everyone is a friend to no one. (Aristotle)
Don’t trust just anyone, only true friends are trustworthy.
106. Do not allow any human being to make you fall so low as to hate him. (Martin Luther King)
Don’t give room to hate.
107. The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the candles. (William George Ward)
Leave bad thoughts outside of you, because they will not take you to safe harbor.
108. Luck favors only the prepared mind. (Isaac Asimov)
It is not a matter of luck, it is preparation and study that will lead you to success.
109. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. (Milton Berle)
Look for the opportunities.
110. It is easy to make things complicated, but it is difficult to make them simple. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
We always go for the complicated when in reality simplicity is more practical.
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