100 Top Most Popular William Arthur Ward Quotes

1. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
2. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
3. “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
4. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
5. “Happiness is an inside job.”
6. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
7. “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
8. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
9. “We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.”
10. “The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
11. “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
12. “We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
13. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
14. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
15. “We can never fully measure the kindness of a single act, nor the power of one word to heal and inspire.”
16. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.”
17. “The door of opportunity is always labeled ‘push’.”
18. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
19. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
20. “The mediocre person tells. The good person explains. The superior person demonstrates. The great person inspires others to see for themselves.”
21. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
22. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
23. “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
24. “The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
25. “Adversity causes some to break; others to break records.”
26. “The mediocre workman blames his tools; the good workman uses them wisely; the superior workman inspires others to use theirs well.”
27. “The mediocre athlete is satisfied with mediocrity; the good athlete aspires to excellence; the great athlete inspires others to excel.”
28. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
29. “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
30. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”
31. “To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
32. “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them
33. “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.”
34. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they’d rather be anywhere else.”
35. “We can make a difference and we should try.”
36. “The humble person knows that the greatest treasures of life are those that cannot be measured by money or status.”
37. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
38. “The most important thing about goals is having one.”
39. “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.”
40. “The greatest gift you can give to someone is your time, because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.”
41. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
42. “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.”
43. “Success is not to be measured by the amount of money or fame that we achieve, but by the degree to which we are able to give back to others.”
44. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
45. “We are not given talent to hoard, but to invest and share with others.”
46. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
47. “True greatness lies not in what we have accomplished, but in what we have overcome to accomplish it.”
48. “We can learn from history, but we can also be trapped by it.”
49. “The pessimist sees only the problems, the optimist only the opportunities, and the realist sees both and makes the best of both.”
50. “We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails to always reach our destination.”
51. “The best things in life are not things, but the people we love and the experiences we have with them.”
52. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
53. “The more we express our gratitude to others, the more we have to be thankful for.”
54. “It is not what we have, but who we have in our lives that truly matters.”
55. “The art of listening is an essential skill for all good communicators.”
56. “The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.”
57. “We must take time to be grateful for the little things that make life worth living.”
58. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
59. “The true measure of a person is not how they act when things are easy, but how they react when things are difficult.”
60. “The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are, but on how happy others can be because of you.”
61. “The road to success is always under construction.”
62. “We can’t change the past, but we can change the way we feel about it.”
63. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
64. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
65. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.”
66. “The best things in life are not things, but the people we love and the memories we make with them.”
67. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
68. “We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.”
69. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
70. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
71. “We can accomplish anything in life, provided that we do not mind who gets the credit.”
72. “It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”
73. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
74. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
75. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
76. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
77. “To make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.”
78. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
79. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
80. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
81. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
82. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
83. “To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
84. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
85. “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
86. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
87. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”
88. “Every great accomplishment begins with a decision to try.”
89. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
90. “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
91. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
92. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
93. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
94. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.”
95. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
96. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
97. “Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.”
98. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.”
99. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”