Most Inspiring Quotes

• It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. Paul Bryant

• Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth

• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

• To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. Chinese Proverb

• You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

• Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia

• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson

• I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. Faith Hill

• Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. Katharine Hepburn

• Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley

• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry

• Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

• Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace

• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle

• Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. Laird Hamilton

• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington

• The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Deepak Chopra

• About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. Rita Mae Brown

• Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller

• A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. Confucius Kongzi

• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare

• I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! Eleanor Roosevelt

• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie

• Life itself is the proper binge. Julia Child

• For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

• Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life. Germany Kent

• Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. Leah LaBelle

• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein

• If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Steve Jobs

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin

• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson

• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Audrey Hepburn

• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

• I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Jerry Lewis

• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand

• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Humphry Davy

• Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. W. H. Auden

• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin

• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Grandma Moses

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney

• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler

• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. B. F. Skinner

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. Barbara Kingsolver

• When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.

• The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg

• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky

• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem

• I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. Ursula Andress

• If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. Steve Jobs

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry

• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus

• All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. Ernest Hemingway

• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey

• Always be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the m is silent. Unknown

• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer

• Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell

• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King

• I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. James Cash Penney

• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton