Inspirational Quotes

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

~ Roy T. Bennett

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

~ Aristotle

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.

~ Lisa Genova

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

~ Rick Riordan

If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.

~ Steve Maraboli

Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

~ Mhairi Mcfarlane

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most, you should change your priorities over time.

~ Roy T. Bennett

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say I will be ready when I am perfect because then you will never be ready, rather one must say I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

~ C. Joybell C.

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

~ J.d. Stroube

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

~ Jim Henson

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

~ King James Gadsden

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Create your own miracles, do what you think you cannot do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes I go to God and say, God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.

~ A.w. Tozer

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

~ Jacqueline Carey

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

~ John Steinbeck

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

~ Steve Maraboli

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

~ Bill Watterson

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

But what is life if you don't live it?

~ James Patterson

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.

~ Colleen Hoover

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

~ Frances E. Willard

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

~ H.l. Mencken

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

~ Gilles Deleuze

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

~ Brian Cox

Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.

~ Annie Dillard

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

~ Og Mandino

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

~ Amit Ray

A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment, you're not be being true to yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

~ Seneca

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!

~ C. Joybell C.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

~ Claudia Gray