Letthese uplifting sayings see you through disappointments in life and give youstrength to keep on fighting
InspirationalLife Quotes
The quotations beloware loosely divided into five sets of ten for ease of browsing. My favoritequotes are marked with a icon.What are yours?
Untilnow, that is. Recently, I began to put my act together and started to collectlife inspirational quotes. And I am sharing my collection with you, if youdon’t mind another web page full of quoted text. Who knows? You might even finda life-transforming mantra in this list of quotes.
Iintend to expand my collection into other genres of quotations in the future:Those that are funny, those that give hope, and not forgetting quotes that are cynicaland sarcastic.
They don’t necessarily haveto be sayings from famous people, as long as they are inspirational, clever,funny, or meaningful. So, please share them in the comments if you know of anygreat quotes. And don’t forget to credit them. Thank you so much in advance
Attitude Toward Life Matters
InspirationalQuotes about Life Set 1
1. Lifeis just a chance to grow a soul.
– A. PowellDavies
2. Most people can look back over the yearsand identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly.Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of areadiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we areforced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we liveand to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.
– Frederick F.Flack
3. Howfar you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionatewith the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and thestrong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
– GeorgeWashington Carver
4. Ourattitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
– John N.Mitchell
5. Letus so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
– Mark Twain
6. Anindividual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confinesof his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
– MartinLuther King, Jr.
7. Onemight well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts andguests.
– Max Beerbohm
8. Howis one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware ofthe blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only inone’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individuallife becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfoldingand accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. Onemust live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction wereeliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some ofthe great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life aworthy expression of leaning into the light.
– Barry Lopez
9. Pessimism…is,in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is theonly view of life in which you can never be disappointed.
– Thomas Hardy
10. Never standso high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
– WinstonChurchill
Uncover YourDreams & Live it!
InspirationalQuotes about Life Set 2
11. Life’schallenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help youdiscover who you are.
– BerniceJohnson Reagon
12. Don’t beafraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
– David LloydGeorge
13. 13Lovedoesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– Franklin P.Jones
14. 14Nothingelse matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without thisgift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed ofcreeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that youshould be able to believe in life.
– HarryEmerson Fosdick
15. Don’t askwhat the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because whatthe world needs is people who have come alive.
– HowardThurman
16. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live asif you’ll die today.
– James Dean
17. Rememberthat no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives anyother than this which he now loses.
– MarcusAurelius
18. It’s faithin something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
– OliverWendell Holmes
19. Build a mana fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm forthe rest of his life.
– TerryPratchett
20. If you waitto do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much ofanything.
– Win BordenWhat is Life Really?
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 3
21. Andin the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in youryears.
– AbrahamLincoln
22. Lifeis like a tin of sardines. We are all looking for the key.
– Alan Bennett
23. Lifeis a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
– Anne WilsonSchaef
24. Howwe spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
– AnnieDillard
25. My life has no purpose, no direction, noaim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doingright?
– CharlesSchulz
26. Icould not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simplylook on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One mustnever, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
– EleanorRoosevelt
27. Lifeis a long lesson in humility.
– James M.Barrie
28. Menfor the sake of getting a living forget to live.
– MargaretFuller
29. Be onthe alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
– Muriel Spark
30. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls andlooks like work.
– Thomas Edison
Loosen Up, Life isNot a War!
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 4
31. Anythingworth taking seriously is worth poking fun at.
– AuthorUnknown
32. As long as your mistakes are new ones, youcan argue that you are making progress.
– Author Unknown
33. Experienceis something you get just after you need it.
– AuthorUnknown
34. Oneof the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’swork is terribly important.
– BertrandRussell
35. Idleness is only a coarse name for myinfitnite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
36. Donot take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
– ElbertHubbard
37. Neverlend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
– Erma Bombeck
38. Andwe should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least onelaugh.
– FriedrichNietzsche
39. Find enough clever things to say, andyou’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
– GeorgeBernard Shaw
40. t’sokay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.
– Mike Jagger
How to Live
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 5
41. Expectnothing, live frugally on surprise.
– Alice Walker
42. Disciplineis making the choice between what you want now and what you want most.
– AuthorUnknown
43. Ilove my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m notsad because I have it no longer.
– Colette
44. Lifeis relationships; the rest is just details.
– Gary Smalley
45. Howevermean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself muchto get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
– Henry DavidThoreau
46. Makelots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three.
– Jack Dee
47. Everythinghas been figured out, except how to live.
– Jean-PaulSartre
48. Everythingyou now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want tobelieve that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’remaking of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
– John C.Maxwell
49. Nobody can go back and start a newbeginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
– MariaRobinson
50. Live your life and forget your age.
– NormanVincent Peale
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