Inspirational Life Quotations | Page 3

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties...

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

You can't take no breaks.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I am rooted, but I flow.

Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

The readiness is all.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Life was meant to be lived.

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Everybody likes a compliment.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

I used everything you gave me.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

The best of times is now.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.