Quotes for Everyday Life Lessons.

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Here are 75 Quotes for  Everyday Life Lessons, to brighten your day and move your mindset in a positive direction.
1. Smile every chance you get. Not because life has been easy, perfect, or exactly as you had anticipated, but because you choose to be happy and grateful for all the good things you do have and all the problems you know you don’t have.
2. Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
3. Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
4. A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.
5. In a world where you can be anything you want, BE YOURSELF.
6. The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.
7. It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.
8. Life is not about making others happy. Life is about sharing your happiness with others.
9. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.
10. If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.
11. Sometimes life gives you two options: losing yourself or losing someone else. Regardless of the situation, don’t lose yourself.
12. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.
13. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
14. Don’t worry too much about people who don’t worry about you.
15. Know your worth! When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.
16. Sometimes you’ve got to emotionally let go of the things that once meant a lot to you, so you can move beyond the past and the pains they bring you, and open the next chapter in your life.
17. If you want to get over a problem, stop mulling it over and talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind. It’s nearly impossible to move beyond something when you’re obsessing over it.
18. If it is detrimental to you emotionally, physically and spiritually, what choice do you have but to let go and flourish with self-respect.
19. Saying goodbye is one of the most painful ways to solve a problem. But sometimes it’s necessary.
20. Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting, it means you choose happiness over hurt.
21. Stop looking at what you have lost, so you can see what you have.
22. Someone else is happy with far less than what you have.
23. Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.
24. Sometimes people throw away something good for something better, only to find out later that good was actually good enough and better never even came close.
25. In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.
26. You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.
27. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
28. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
29. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
30. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life. Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
31. You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else. Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.
32. You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.
33. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel.
34. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.
35. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
36. Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
37. It hurts the most when you start pretending it doesn’t.
38. You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.
39. Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words and actions is as important as being kind to others.
40. Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.
41. Only when we begin to be awake do we realize just how asleep we have been.
42. You are always free to do something that makes you smile.
43. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your life’s story for you.
44. Don’t be afraid of change. Oftentimes you will lose something good, and then gain something even better.
45. Worry is a massive waste of time and energy. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and hinder your ability to make positive changes.
46. If you want to be happy and bright, let go of your need to always be right.
47. In life, you usually get what you ask for and it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in.
48. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
49. Life does NOT have to be perfect to be wonderful.
50. You look the best when you wear your smile. There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.
51. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
52. The time spent on hating is the time lost for living a peaceful, happy life. It is a habit that controls what you see, what you say, what you do, and ultimately what you become.
53. Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
54. The good things we build end up building us.
55. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
56. The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.
57. If you want your life to change, your choices and actions must change. Every day brings a chance to start over.
58. Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.
59. Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you.
60. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.
61. Knowing yourself is one thing, but truly believing and living as yourself is another. With so much social conditioning in our society, we sometimes forget who we are. Don’t lose yourself out there.
62. Of all the things that can be stolen from you – your possessions, your youth, your health, your words, your rights – what no one can ever take from you is your freedom to choose what you will believe in, and who and what your heart will love.
63. When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.
64. Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
65. When you can forgive, yourself and others, and stop the imprisonment, you’re creating the love of your life.
66. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
67. Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
68. When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go, and just live in the moment.
69. Even though you cannot control everything that happens, you can control your attitude toward what happens. And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
70. Life will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try. Even if you pour your heart and soul into it, you will never have that perfection you seek. There will always be broken hearts, there will always be days where nothing goes right. But you must accept and learn that even the most imperfect things will always be made better with love and laughter.
71. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
72. Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have.
73. Sometimes you just have to look back at your past and smile about how far you’ve come.
74. Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.
75. It’s not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turns out.

Always be Positive.

Quotes for Politics.

• Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese
• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
• We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein
• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956
• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln
• I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988
• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
• George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown
• Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn
• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~Ernest Benn
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall
• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~Leo Rosten
• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
• A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam
• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies
• Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
• The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
• I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben
• Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. ~Woodrow Wilson
• I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ~Harold Lowman
• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic
• The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
• The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers
• There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. ~Hermione Gingold
• I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
• If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill
• If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. ~Malcolm Bradbury, After Dinner Game, 1982
• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
• All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. ~Groucho Marx
• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken
• History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde
• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? ~Robert Brault,
• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
• If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. ~Vance Packard
• Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.' ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases"
• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
• Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
• Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman
• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
• How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown
• A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
• There ought to be one day - just one -when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
• Overheard in a Washington D.C. confessional: "Bless me, Father, for sins have been committed." ~Robert Brault,
• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -Touch themwith gold, they'll turn to what you please. ~John Wolcot
• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~André Malraux
• Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg
• The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown
• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~Thomas Jefferson
• It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ~George E. MacDonald
• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton
• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ~Walter Lippmann
• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuart Mill
• The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. ~Lyman Bryson
• During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. ~Author Unknown
• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ~Meg Greenfield
• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan
• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne
• The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
• Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
• I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady
• Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ~Winston Churchill
• In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle
• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will
• Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz
• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner
• Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant

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