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Billy Wilder Quotes

I hope you find these Billy Wilder Quotes inspiring and motivational.

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

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Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

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

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey


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