Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes


"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
Y

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because
you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull
not to attack you because you're a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey
Y

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Y

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
- Sara Teasdale
Y

"Breathe. Let go.
And remind yourself that this very moment is
the only one you know you have for sure."
- Oprah Winfrey
Y

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Y

"Enjoyment is not a goal,
it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."
- Paul Goodman
Y

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something
that makes a life worth living."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Y

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- Emily Dickinson
Y

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.
So... get on your way!”
- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

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Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes


"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,
for your life and strength."
- Shawnee Chief Tecumseh
Y

"Each day when I awake, I know I have one more day to make
a difference in someone's life."
- James Mann
Y

"That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if
you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb.
And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your
plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again."
- Michael Johnson
Y

"So whatever it is you want, need or desire, or just like to have,
you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is."
- Della Reese
Y

"I try to take one day at a time,
but sometimes several days attack me at once."
- Jennifer Yane
Y

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us
really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Charles Kingsley
Y

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost;
to be everywhere is to be nowhere."
- Michel de Montaigne
Y

"Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things."
- G. K. Chesterton
Y

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that
will outlast it."
- William James
Y

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with green
majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and
throw my handful of seed on high."
- Fiona MacLeod

Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes


"Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard."
- Author Unknown
♥

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretsky
♥

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base
and keep your foot on first."
- Frederick B. Wilcox
♥

"Time = Life, therefore, waste your time and waste your life,
or master your time and master your life."
- Alan Lakein
♥

"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables."
- A Spanish Proverb
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C. S. Lewis
♥

"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
- J. Lubbock
♥

"To love what you do and feel that it matters –
how could anything be more fun?"
- Katharine Graham
♥

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

"My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more
running barefoot through the grass."
- Leslie Grimutter

Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes


"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege
it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
o

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain
o

"Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us."
– John N. Mitchell
o

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."
– A. Powell Davies
o

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for
fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges,
wish for more wisdom."
- Earl Shoaf
o

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castaneda
o

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
- Goethe
o

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action
for all eternity."
- Johann Kasper Lavater
o

"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you,
and every life a life like yours, the earth would be God's Paradise."
- Philip Brooks
o

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
– Mark Twain
o

"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
- Oscar Wilde

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse
(Part 4)

"Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord,
and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while,
you will grow as you learn to know God better and better."
- Colossians 1:10
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"Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
When you enter into it, take with you your all."
- Kahlil Gibran
o

"To affect the quality of the day; that is the art of life."
- Henry David Thoreau
o

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
o

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -
and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I
wanted to do."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
o

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
- Anthony Robbins
o

"Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source
of our security, guidance, wisdom and power."
- Stephen Covey
o

"Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got.
Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back,
many times over, what you put into it."
- Maya Angelou
o

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for
one man's life."
- T. S. Eliot
o

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson
o

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
o

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears that we never use."
- Charles Schulz

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

(Part 3)

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have
eternal life."
- John 3:16
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
o()o
"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go,
only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be."
- Karen Ravn
o()o

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love,
and to let it come in."
- Morrie Schwartz
o()o
"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
- Helen Keller
o()o
"Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
o()o
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those."
- Michael Nolan
o()o
"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music.
Your days are your sonnets."
- Oscar Wilde
o()o
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
o()o
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
- Author Unknown
o()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

"Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in
all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who
belong to Christ Jesus."
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16 - 18
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"Treat every thought as a prayer."
- Dr. Lee Pulos
()
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs
()
"Give to us clear vision that we may
know where to stand and what to stand for -
because unless we stand for something,
we shall fall for anything."
- Peter Marshall
()
"If you believe in what you are doing,
then let nothing hold you up in your work.
Much of the best work of the world has been
done against seeming impossibilities.
The thing is to get the work done."
- Dale Carnegie
()
"Do what is right. Do it right. Do it right now."
- Barry Forbes
()
"I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives,
each day, each hour, an entire life."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
()
"Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation."
- Author Unknown
()
"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with
which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
- Tennessee Williams
()
"Look at life through the windshield,
not the rear-view mirror."
- Byrd Baggett
()
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world
a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
()
"All I can say about my life is, oh God, I enjoy it!"
- Bob Newhart

Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the
best which is within us."
- Marianne Williamson
o
"You don't have to be great to start,
but you have to start to be great."
- Joe Sabah
o
"A work well begun is half-ended."
- Plato
o
"Just do it."
- NIKE
o
"It is a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but
the best you very often get it."
- W. Somerset Maugham
o
"What I hear I forget. What I see I remember.
What I do, I know."
- A Chinese Proverb
o
"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites,
but they're really not. They're companions -
the hero and the sidekick."
- Laurence Shames
o
"Things that matter most should never be at the mercy
of things which matter least."
- Johann Von Goethe
o
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick
of your success will be how you treat other people."
- Barbara Bush
o
"I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you."
- Blaise Pascal
o
"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- Saint Basil
o

"Sometimes our candles go out,
but is blown into flame by an encounter
with another human being."
- Albert Schweitzer
o
"If you don't think every day is a good day,
just try missing one."
- Cavett Robert

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living...

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living

"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else,
and live righteously, and He will give you
everything you need."
- Matthew 6:33
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for
something that makes life worth living."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"Forget mistakes. Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going to do
now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
- Will Durant
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"We must let go of the life we planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
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"The Noah Rule: Predicting rain doesn't count;
building arks does."
- Warren Buffet
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"The most pathetic person in the world is someone
who has sight but has no vision."
- Helen Keller
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it."
- William Somerset Maugham
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
- Carl Gustav Jung
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"Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu
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"Life isn't all beer and skittles."
- Thomas Hughes

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living (part 2)

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living (part 2)

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies;
and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.'"
- John 11:25-26
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"Everything that a man leans upon but God,
will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart
through and through. He who leans only upon Christ,
lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life."
- Thomas Brooks
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"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to
me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...
we are in charge of our attitudes."
- Charles R. Swindoll
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"What is the use of living if not to strive for noble
causes and to make this muddled world a better place
for those who will live in it after we are gone?"
- Winston Churchill
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"Each of us has a spark of life inside us,
and our highest endeavor ought to be to
set off that spark in one another."
- Kenny Ausubel
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"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 can come alive."
- Howard Thurman
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"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
– Pat Riley
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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
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"I didn't want to get to the end of my life and
find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to
have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
- Mother Teresa

Quotes on Life and Living...

Quotes on Life and Living (part 1)

"Each day is a 24-hour miracle to be treated with
awe and experienced to its fullest."
- HBS, "Daily Thoughts"
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that
this thing must be attained."
– Marie Curie
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact."
– William James
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"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean
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"Not only is your story worth telling,
but it can be told in words so painstakingly
eloquent that it becomes a song."
- Gloria Naylor
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"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee,
the small child, and the smiling face. Smell the rain and
feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential
and fight for your dreams."
- Ashley Smith
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"The most important things in life aren't things."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee Proverb
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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"That I will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
- Emily Dickinson

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living...

Quotes and a Verse on Life and Living

"Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ.
He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us,
a pleasing aroma to God."
- Ephesians 5:2
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"Life is a promise; fulfill it."
- Mother Teresa
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"Life is a succession of lessons, which
must be lived to be understood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is a great big canvas, and you should
throw all the paint you can on it."
- Danny Kaye
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne
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"You have lived well if something of your influence
survives to inspire others to live well."
- Ralph Lee Goodman
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"Life is a gift to you. The way you live your life
is your gift to those who come after."
- Author Unknown
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"Nothing should be prized more highly
than the value of each day."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and
told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
– Maya Angelou
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"Today, let's give thanks for life. For life
itself. For simply being born!"
- Daphne Rose Kingma
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"Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of
the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge,
the quality that gives a touch of divinity."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -
that I will have fought for what was right and fair,
that I will have risked for that which mattered and
that I will have given help to those who were in need,
that I will have left the earth a better place for
what I've done and who I've been."
- C. Hoppe
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller