Let
these uplifting sayings see you through disappointments in life and give you
strength to keep on fighting
Inspirational
Life Quotes
The quotations below
are loosely divided into five sets of ten for ease of browsing. My favorite
quotes are marked with a icon.
What are yours?
Until now, that is. Recently, I began to put my act together and started to collect life inspirational quotes. And I am sharing my collection with you, if you don’t mind another web page full of quoted text. Who knows? You might even find a life-transforming mantra in this list of quotes.
I intend 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 cynical and sarcastic.
They don’t necessarily have to 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 any great quotes. And don’t forget to credit them. Thank you so much in advance
Attitude Toward Life Matters
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 1
1. Life
is just a chance to grow a soul.
– A. Powell
Davies
2. Most people can look back over the years
and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly.
Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a
readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are
forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live
and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.
– Frederick F.
Flack
3. How
far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the
strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
– George
Washington Carver
4. Our
attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
– John N.
Mitchell
5. Let
us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
– Mark Twain
6. An
individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
– Martin
Luther King, Jr.
7. One
might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and
guests.
– Max Beerbohm
8. How
is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of
the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in
one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual
life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding
and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One
must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were
eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of
the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a
worthy 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 the
only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.
– Thomas Hardy
10. Never stand
so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
– Winston
Churchill
Uncover Your
Dreams & Live it!
Inspirational
Quotes about Life Set 2
11. Life’s
challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you
discover who you are.
– Bernice
Johnson Reagon
12. Don’t be
afraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
– David Lloyd
George
13. 13Love
doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– Franklin P.
Jones
14. 14Nothing
else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this
gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of
creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you
should be able to believe in life.
– Harry
Emerson Fosdick
15. Don’t ask
what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what
the world needs is people who have come alive.
– Howard
Thurman
16. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as
if you’ll die today.
– James Dean
17. Remember
that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any
other than this which he now loses.
– Marcus
Aurelius
18. It’s faith
in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
– Oliver
Wendell Holmes
19. Build a man
a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for
the rest of his life.
– Terry
Pratchett
20. If you wait
to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of
anything.
– Win Borden
What is Life Really?
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 3
21.
And
in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your
years.
– Abraham
Lincoln
22.
Life
is like a tin of sardines. We are all looking for the key.
– Alan Bennett
23.
Life
is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
– Anne Wilson
Schaef
24.
How
we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
– Annie
Dillard
25.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no
aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing
right?
– Charles
Schulz
26.
I
could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply
look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must
never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
– Eleanor
Roosevelt
27.
Life
is a long lesson in humility.
– James M.
Barrie
28.
Men
for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
– Margaret
Fuller
29.
Be on
the 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 and
looks like work.
– Thomas Edison
Loosen Up, Life is
Not a War!
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 4
31.
Anything
worth taking seriously is worth poking fun at.
– Author
Unknown
32.
As long as your mistakes are new ones, you
can argue that you are making progress.
– Author Unknown
33.
Experience
is something you get just after you need it.
– Author
Unknown
34.
One
of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s
work is terribly important.
– Bertrand
Russell
35.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my
infitnite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
36.
Do
not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
– Elbert
Hubbard
37.
Never
lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
– Erma Bombeck
38.
And
we 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 one
laugh.
– Friedrich
Nietzsche
39.
Find enough clever things to say, and
you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
– George
Bernard Shaw
40.
t’s
okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.
– Mike Jagger
How to Live
Inspirational Quotes about Life Set 5
41.
Expect
nothing, live frugally on surprise.
– Alice Walker
42.
Discipline
is making the choice between what you want now and what you want most.
– Author
Unknown
43.
I
love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not
sad because I have it no longer.
– Colette
44.
Life
is relationships; the rest is just details.
– Gary Smalley
45.
However
mean 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 much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change.
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
– Henry David
Thoreau
46.
Make
lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three.
– Jack Dee
47.
Everything
has been figured out, except how to live.
– Jean-Paul
Sartre
48.
Everything
you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to
believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re
making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
– John C.
Maxwell
49.
Nobody can go back and start a new
beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
– Maria
Robinson
50.
Live your life and forget your age.
– Norman
Vincent Peale
