Афоризмы и высказывания известных людей на английском языке

🖋 It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth

🖋 Paradise is not a goal at the end of the road, but the road itself... More important than the road itself are the people we meet along the way. That is the real key to life.
Dolly Parton

🖋 The hardest part about moving on is never looking back.
Dawson Leary

🖋 He who never fell never climbed.
NN

🖋 The less routine the more life.
Amos Alcott

🖋 Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield

🖋 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

🖋 If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is “work,” Y is “play,” and Z is “keep your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein

🖋 The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella Phelan

🖋 It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how good you look.
David Roth

🖋 The strong fall down but the weak stay down.
NN

🖋 Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Wright

🖋 Victory goes to the player who makes the second-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower

🖋 Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan

🖋 When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington

🖋 You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

🖋 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

🖋 The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

🖋 Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James

🖋 I am at one with the little invisible beings in the air -- they who had begun as blue Flax flowers. The song is more joyous in youth, fuller and stronger in middle age; it quavers a little as the years go on and on: but the song itself is never ended.
Kate Douglas

🖋 All of us, until age four or five, see ourselves as the center of the universe. Some of us outgrow it. Some of us don't.
Tony Curtis

🖋 Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
Vin Scully

🖋 May you live as long as want and not want as long as you live.
Tom Hanks

🖋 You know what I think about success? It sucks too much cess.
Eminem

🖋 Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
Audre Lorde

🖋 The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

🖋 The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Thomas Eliot

🖋 I have faith in my star, that is that I am intended to do something in the world.
Winston Churchill

🖋 You’ll always miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take.
Wayne Gretzky

🖋 If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

🖋 The secret of a happy life is to accept change gracefully.
Jimmy Stewart

🖋 Risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
Timothy McMahon

🖋 The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.
Molly Ivins

🖋 I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear — is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.
Vince Lombardi

🖋 Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope

🖋 I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

🖋 Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger

🖋 Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin

🖋 It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail.
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🖋 As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.
Bill Cosby

🖋 Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly.
Joshua Dool

🖋 If you are going to do something, do it right or do not do it at all.
Adam Southard

🖋 I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

🖋 Then came the time, when, inseparable from one's own birthday, was a certain sense of merit, a consciousness of well-earned distinction, when I regarded my birthday as a graceful achievement of my own, a monument of my perseverance, independence, and good sense, redounding

🖋 Man errs as long as he strives.
Goethe

🖋 Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.
William Purkey

🖋 What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis Dunnington

🖋 Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.
Henry Dyke

🖋 I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

🖋 It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

🖋 Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes

🖋 We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy

🖋 You've got to look in the mirror and go, "This is reality, and it's all right."
Linda Ronstand

🖋 Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child

🖋 There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Eric Hoffer

🖋 One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Frances Burnett

🖋 Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Kennedy

🖋 If you fall walking, get up, for all must fall to gain strength.
Brian Angelo

🖋 Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

🖋 I like adulthood to the extent that I'm more free to be a child.
Mike Myers

🖋 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

🖋 Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou

🖋 Success is not the destination, it’s the journey.
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🖋 Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.
NN

🖋 Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Henry Ford

🖋 people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

🖋 Second place is the first loser.
NN

🖋 Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden

🖋 If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way you were told.
NN

🖋 Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Paul Meyer

🖋 Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Sapir

🖋 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

🖋 The golden age is before us, not behind us.
St. Simon

🖋 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

🖋 Fortune favors the bold.
NN

🖋 The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

🖋 The best is yet to come. I am going to live to be one hundred... and I am going to go on learning.
Shirley MacLaine

🖋 After her grandson Len Barker pitched a perfect game in 1981: Tell Len I’ve very proud of him. I hope he does better next time.
Tokie Lockhart

🖋 Every day is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Isaac Watts

🖋 Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock

🖋 Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful...
Cathy Better

🖋 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is always an orphan.
Galeazzo Ciano

🖋 Try to find something that needs to be done that only you can do.
Margaret Mead

🖋 There’s always room at the top.
Daniel Webster

🖋 Every age can be enchanting...
Brigitte Bardot

🖋 Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
William Ward

🖋 Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Bell

🖋 Success is never final, and failure never fatal.
Don Shula

🖋 We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

🖋 Success is more attitude then aptitude.
NN

🖋 Thoughtfulness affects success more than age and hard work.
Poye Poye

🖋 Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

🖋 To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette

🖋 A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
David Brinkley

🖋 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

🖋 Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

🖋 greatly to my honour.
Charles Dickens

🖋 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

🖋 Let us live while we live.
Philip Doddridge

🖋 I'm still buying green bananas! I guess that makes me an optimist. Don't worry about me...
Sarah Delany

🖋 Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

🖋 When you are falling from a mountain, you may as well attempt to fly.
“Babylon 5”

🖋 Every new day is as important as yesterday.
Elizabeth Taylor

🖋 I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is, “Try to please everybody.”
Herbert Swope

🖋 I would rather sing one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Cecilia Bartoli

🖋 A life without mistakes is a mistake within itself.
Dustin Patte

🖋 Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
Lauren Bacall

🖋 Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Ernest Meyers

🖋 Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

🖋 Assurance is two-thirds success.
Proverb

🖋 Oh! Life is so full and rich.
Pearl Bailey

🖋 Failure is not an option.
Apollo 13

🖋 Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles Finley

🖋 May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

🖋 If you work at the parts the whole will be a success.
NN

🖋 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

🖋 This is worse than a crime, it’s a blunder.
NN

🖋 Good is not good enough when better is expected.
Lou Lamoriello

🖋 For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood

🖋 The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
NN

🖋 Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
Lucy Montgomery

🖋 The sin is not falling down, but staying down.
NN

🖋 Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
Hans Christian Andersen

🖋 Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom

🖋 I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison

🖋 Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

🖋 Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
Bear Bryant

🖋 We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson

🖋 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

🖋 One must never for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

🖋 It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

🖋 The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Josef Sternberg

🖋 Don’t think about failure. Think about the chances you miss when you dont even try.
NN

🖋 I haven’t failed; I’ve found ten thousand ways that don’t work.
NN

🖋 When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was... I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Black

🖋 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

🖋 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
Arabic Proverb

🖋 To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine

🖋 Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn

🖋 Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Carter

🖋 Reach for the moon; even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
NN

🖋 One’s determination will lead to others success.
Haran Alal

🖋 If you live long enough and fight hard enough, a sense of comforting continuity comes.
Myrna Loy

🖋 Life at the top is frequently a lonely business.
Ronald Reagan

🖋 Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Richter

🖋 Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.
Ann Landers

🖋 In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas

🖋 If you continue to work and absorb the beauty in the world, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old.
Pablo Casals

🖋 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

🖋 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of

🖋 The key to success is sincerity, and if you can fake that you can do anything.
NN

🖋 You cannot be strong in the big, important things if you are weak in the little things.
Ralph Marston

🖋 Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
NN

🖋 How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition, or a job well done; to know even one other life has breathed because you lived this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Emerson

🖋 If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
Jan McKeithen

🖋 Try not. Do, or do not. There is no “try.”
Star Wars