Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse

"Cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you."

- 1 Peter 5:7

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

- Charlotte Bronte

"I can turn my day around. I can change the flavor of today's

experiences. I can lift my spirits and know all is well."

- Author Unknown

"Today, well lived, will prepare me for both

the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow."

- Author Unknown

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

- H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."

- lyrics from Dave Matthews Band

"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend,

I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'til I'm going to

need somebody to lean on."

- lyrics from song 'Lean On Me'

"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions,

we shall have heaping measures."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let today be a day in which I do something joyful."

- Dana Bate (from Vagabond Journeys)

"Today I will have faith and all will be well."

- Author Unknown

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom,

knowledge and happiness."

- Ecclesiastes 2:26

"Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what

you want me to be and becoming that person."

- St Therese of Lisieux

"Be what you are. This is the first step toward

becoming better than you are."

- Julius Charles Hare

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently.

Be the chess player, not the chess piece."

- Ralph Charell

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon

way, you command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"I think of life itself as a wonderful play that

I've written for myself, and so my purpose is

to have the utmost fun playing my part."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the

happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star."

- Anthelme Brilat-Savarin

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you

can do it even better than you think you can."

- Jimmy Carter

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on

the water, but to walk on the earth."

- A Chinese Proverb

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,

that He may exalt you in due time”

- 1 Peter 5:6

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life.

It is not something discovered. It is something molded."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a

future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction."

- Jesse Stoner Zemel

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what

you desire to appear."

- Socrates

"To love what you do and feel that it matters –

how could anything be more fun?"

- Katharine Graham

"The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule,

but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"There cannot be a crisis next week.

My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be

pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer."

- Psalm 19:14

"Start every day with an inspiring thought."

- Author Unknown

“For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,

it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. ”

- Joey Tolbert

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to

give out love, and to let it come in.”

- Morrie Schwartz

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"You may not have saved a lot of money in your life,

but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks,

you are a pretty rich man."

- Seth Parker

“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions,

but in the fewness of my wants.”

- Joseph Brotherton

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand,

but write the good things that happen to you on a

piece of marble."

- Arabic Proverb

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to

that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger

than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link

and get free."

- Catherine Ponder

"Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good."

- Ernest Holman

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what

it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being

content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,

whether living in plenty or want. I can do everything through

Him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:12-13

"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter,

to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some

difference that you have lived at all."

- Leo Rosten

o

"It's not enough to be busy... the question is:

what are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

o

"Do not follow where the path may lead.

Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Harold R. McAlindon

o

"I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything,

but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not

do interfere with what I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale

o

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who

do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

- Albert Einstein

o

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone...

and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of

one's life and all the weavings of individual threads

from one to another that creates something."

- Sandra Day O’Connor

o

"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.

And I know you do the same things, too, so we're really not

that different, me and you."

- Colin Raye

o

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,

so a life well spent brings happy death."

- Leonardo da Vinci

o

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse


"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
do it all for the glory of God."
- 1 Corinthians 10:31

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and
walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
n

"Every day you may make progress.
Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before
you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path.
You know you will never get to the end of the journey.
But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the
joy and glory of the climb."
- Winston Churchill
n

"The present is a rope stretched over the past.
The secret to walking it is you never look down."
- Sean Stewart
n

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are
fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we
do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
- John Steinbeck
n

"We were not created to be eaten by anxiety,
but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there
is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win."
- Author Unknown
n

"In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson
n

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
n

"Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches,
give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid
and crazy, devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
- Walt Whitman
n

"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At 70,
I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly.
You know that 'this too shall pass!'"
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse


"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,
not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the
Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
- Colossians 3:23-24
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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're
going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
78

"There is no passion to be found in playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
- Nelson Mandela
78

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
- Lewis Carroll
78

"We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut
78

"Time sets the state; fate writes the script;
but only we may choose our character."
- Liam Thomas Ryder
78

"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like
you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that you don't
change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about
like trying to milk a dead cow."
- Woody Guthrie
78

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense."
- Harold S. Kushner
78

"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."
- Jimmy Buffet
78

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
- Bill Watterson, 'Calvin and Hobbes'

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse


"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own
understanding; in all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will make
your paths straight."
- Proverbs 3:5-6
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"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in
your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become."
- James Allen
n

"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing
something you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-
eight times before I finally conquered it."
- Julia Child
n

"The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside
in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your way
can be removed only by the same hands."
- Sophia Bedford-Pierce
n

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg."
- Author Unknown
n

"All the woulda-coulda-shouldas layin' in the sun, talkin' 'bout the things
they woulda-coulda-shoulda done... But all those woulda-coulda-shouldas
all ran away and hid from one little did."
- Shel Silverstein
n

"If you miss an opportunity, do not cloud your eyes with tears;
keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one."
- Author Unknown
n

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to
make the turn."
- Author Unknown
n

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- A Japanese Proverb
n

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
- Clementine Paddleford

Life Quotes and a Verse...

Life Quotes and a Verse


"Delight yourself in The Lord and He will give you
the desires of your heart."
- Psalms 37:4
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“Because life is a living, breathing, work of art, you are
a painting as you go. Be a masterpiece. Drink in life.
Laugh too loud. Compliment others constantly.”
- Nicole Johnson
c

"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all
the paint on it you can."
- Danny Kaye
c

"My life is like a piano, white keys are happy moments
and black keys are sad moments. But remember both keys
are played together to give sweet music of life... "
- Author Unknown
c

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea
that life is serious."
- Brendan Gill
c

"My life is my message."
- Mahatma Gandhi
c

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
c

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel.
You yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder.
But cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass
a very comfortable night."
- Marion Howard
c

"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me,
I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled
a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved."
- Author Unknown
c

"The soul is born old, but grows young.
That is the comedy of life."
- Oscar Wilde
c

"Life is half spent before one knows what life is."
- A French Proverb

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"Jesus replied, 'I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to Me will never be hungry again.
Whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty'"
- John 6:35
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"There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted
and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take."
- Andy Andrews
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"Nothing is so contagious as example, and our every really good
or bad action inspires a similar one."
- La Rouchefoucauld
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"Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations.
I found that out too late."
- Katherine Susannah Prichard
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"Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more;
Love more, and all good things will be yours."
- A Swedish Proverb
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"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
- James Taylor
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"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."
- Rosalia de Castro
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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road,
you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch
before they reach you."
- Calvin Coolidge
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"Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Life is a play. We're unrehearsed."
- Mel Brooks
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"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."
- Fran Lebowitz
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"It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life."
- Green Day