Inspirational Life Quotes, Life Sayings

"If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation." Chinese Proverb

"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."Barbara Hall

"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 wondering about yourself." Katharine Hepburn

"Throughout one's life there are many times that reflections of things to come, or change to be made are prevalent." Byron Pulsifer, from Mid-Life Ramblings

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present." Friedrich Nietzsche

"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same." Anne Frank

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." Joseph Campbell

"Live and make the present hour pleasant and cheerful. Keep your mind out of the past, and keep it out of the future." John A. Schindler, from How to Live a Hundred Years Happily

"May you live all the days of your life." Jonathan Swift

"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly." Ronald Reagan

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." Richard Bach

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow." Samuel Johnson

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." Alexander Woollcott

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." Buddha

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." Ben Stein

"Life is an adventure, dare it." Mother Teresa, from Life Is

"Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke." Eliot Wiggington

"We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life. Drew Barrymore

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies." Ann Landers

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"How you cope with life is determined by your mental attitude. And your mental attitude can be a positive one or a negative one." Catherine Pulsifer, from Life is The Way It Is!

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."Brendan Gill

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."Josh Billings

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."Samuel Butler

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Gandhi

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." Albert Schweitzer

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." Sydney Smith

"Don't wait. Make memories today. Celebrate your life!" Author Unknown, from Life Is For Living

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."Wally 'Famous' Amos

"He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live." Proverb

"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." Lou Erickso

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."Abraham Lincoln

"We all need to decide whether to 'play it safe' in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making?" Charlie Badenhop

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others." Danny Thomas

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

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." Muhammad Ali

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."Ingrid Bergman

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." Cherokee Saying

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." Ben Stein

"Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." Henry Van Dyke

"One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm." Catherine Pulsifer, from Does It Really Matter!

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Harold Whitman

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."Betty Smith

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." Marsha Sinetar

"Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." Robert H. Schuller

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." Benjamin Mays

"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them." Thomas Kinkade

"Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some." Robert Fulghum

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." Luciano de Crescenzo

"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us." Thomas L. Holdcroft

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Robert Brault

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." Henry David Thoreau

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." Confucius

"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." William James

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, 'compared to what'?" Sydney Harris

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lo of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened." Winston Churchill

"Look forward to your day and don't let negative thoughts control it. Change how you interpret or react to life's events." Catherine Pulsifer, from The Quality of Your Thoughts

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverbs

“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm." Elizabeth Bowen

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever." Henry Van Dyke

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies." Ann Landers

"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season." Bill Baughan

Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day." Goethe

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." Shira Tehrani

"Life is always here, ready to teach us a 'special' lesson of some sort or another, if only we would take the time to notice. Charlie Badenhop, from Life is Not a Hardship To Be Endured

"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn." Sanskrit Proverb