Motivational Quotes

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

• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Lorimer

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger

• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer

• I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. Ronald Reagan

• I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde

• If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles. Wayne Dyer

• Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know. Pema Chodron

• Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

• H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.

• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck

• Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another. Yuri Kochiyama

• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell

• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. Oscar Wilde

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

• You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way! Dr. Seuss

• We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus

• We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. Ronald Reagan

• Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

• There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin

• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead

• When you feel like giving up just remember that there are a lot of people you still have to prove wrong.

• One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carroll

• Everything is hard before it is easy. Goethe

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo

• Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. Shiv Khera

• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well. Carl Lewis

• Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. Mark Twain

• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher

• You never know what you can do until you try. William Cobbett

• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle

• I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates

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

• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman

• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin

• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

• In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill

• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer

• If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. Princess Diana

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway

• I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. Frank Sinatra

• A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King

• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Steven Biko

• You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama

• 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

• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

• Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi

• Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. Paul Wellstone

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

• If you think someone could use a friend. Be one. Unknown

• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. W. C. Fields

• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Isak Dinesen

• That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. James M. Barrie

• Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. Theodore Roosevelt

• If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me. Saint Patrick

• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. Gerald Jampolsky

• Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. William Shakespeare

• In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. Michael Jordan

• The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before. Albert Einstein