Inspirational Life Quotes

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

There is no normal life, there's just life.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

What we play is life.

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The more the merrier.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Work is love made visible.

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?