Inspirational Attitude Quotes

Living is a risk,' I snapped at him. 'Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.

~ Maria V. Snyder

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

~ A.s. King

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

~ Susane Colasanti

Our bodies need regular washing because we get dirty everyday. But so do our hearts! Because each day, people hurt us, offend us, forget us, snub us, step on us, reject us. But if we choose to forgive everyone everyday, we cleanse our hearts! We wake up the next morning refreshed and pure and lovely!

~ Bo Sánchez

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

~ Anthony Bourdain

You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

~ Bob Marley

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

~ Ernest Hemingway

As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

~ Ernest Cline

I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie!

~ P.c. Cast

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster, they tell you nothing about the future.

~ Warren Buffett

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

~ Steven Tyler

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

~ Chris Colfer

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

~ Alexandre Dumas

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

~ Helen Keller

She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

~ Paulo Coelho

A lamb in a city of wolves.

~ Karen Marie Moning

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

~ Marjorie M. Liu

There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.

~ Katie Piper

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

~ Susan Mallery

Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to last. That experience. I'd finish it in a day otherwise, and that'd be like...like eating a carton of ice cream in one sitting. Too much richness over too quickly. This way, I can draw it out. Make the book last longer. Savor it. I have to since they don't come out that often.

~ Richelle Mead

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy. - Cersei

~ George R.r. Martin

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy

~ Jessica Dovey

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

~ Katie Piper

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

~ Patricia Cornwell

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

~ Izzeldin Abuelaish

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

~ Gary Shteyngart

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

~ Izzeldin Abuelaish

Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it?

~ Jeanette Winterson

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

~ Charlaine Harris

Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?

~ Carolyn Tody

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

~ Robert Sheckley

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

~ Miguel Ruiz

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

~ James A. Garfield

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

~ Mercedes Lackey

There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went... With an attitude like that, they will never be happy. I see a half full cup and I immediately take half of someone else’s cup and then I have a full cup and I’m happy. With the right attitude, life is really very simple. Peter Pan from 'Leaving Neverland' (Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations)

~ Daniel Prokop