Quotes About Life

Quotes About Life

Inspirational Quotes

Dost thou love life?

Then do not squander time,

for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharal Nehru

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Alexis

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.

Palladas

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Seneca

(7 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

W. Humboldt

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.

Kal Menninger

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hypocrites

After the game,

the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.

Eastern Proverb

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

La Bruyere

Life is like a library owned by the author.

In it are a few books which he wrote himself,

but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.

Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Elbert Hubbard

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Plutarch

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

George William Curtis

The boundaries which divide life from death

are at best shadowy and vague.

Who shall say where one ends,

and the other begins?

Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is

to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a pure flame,

and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Brown

As I grow to understand life less and less,

I learn to love it more and more.

Jules Renard

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Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.

Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,

the best proverb of all is that which says:

"Leave no stone unturned."

Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,

you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Horace Bushnell

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.

W. C. Doane

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

George Eliot

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,

unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Motivational Quotations

Motivational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks.

That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,take to the oars.

Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe

Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field byturning it over in your mind.

Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dreamof those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--

a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

All-inspirational-quotes: success-quotations.

Success Quotations

Success Quotations

Inspirational Quotes

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Theodore T. Hunger

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Cicero

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Christopher Morley

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

A. Branson Alcott

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.

Owen Feltham

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Vince Lombardi

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:

Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Josh Billings

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Earl of Beaconsfield

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Evan Esar

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Jospeph Addison

Impatience never commanded success.

Edwin H. Chapin

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Henry W. Longfellow

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.

C. V. White

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

W.C. Fields