Keys Quotes - Page 4

• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

  109 Copy quote

  Show source

• Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wisdom, Writing, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

  Al Capp

  Music, Piano, Poke

  14 Copy quote

• The key to winning is poise under stress.

  Paul Brown

  Stress, Adversity, Winning

  47 Copy quote

• Acceptance is the key to everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• simplicity is the key of elegance

  Coco Chanel

  Simplicity, Elegance

  19 Copy quote

• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1275 Copy quote

• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Behavior Change, Personality

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.

  Paul Celan

  Eye, Blood, Wind

  10 Copy quote

• Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiveness, Doors, Hatred

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

  270 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Creativity, Light

  90 Copy quote

• As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.
  We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.
  The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as
  anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,
  while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility
  are the sources of peace and happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Freedom

  30 Copy quote

• The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

  Peter Abelard

  Firsts, Questioning, Doubted

  31 Copy quote

• The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Graduation

  13 Copy quote

• I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

  Alicia Keys

  Curves, Body, Ashamed

  71 Copy quote

• Children are the keys of paradise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Reality, Paradise

  24 Copy quote

• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Heaven, Debt

  18 Copy quote

• Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Echoes, One Day, Ease

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

  Steve Waugh

  Worry, Too Much, Pressure

  55 Copy quote

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  92 Copy quote

• I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

  Sara Paretsky

  Life, Glasses, Inspire

  133 Copy quote

• Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

  Herman Melville

  Brother, Ocean, Sea

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.9

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

  Ricardo Semler

  Management, Managers

  20 Copy quote

• I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

  Alicia Keys

  Fashion, Living My Life, Lows

  11 Copy quote

• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Eye, Play

  9 Copy quote