Life Quotes

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

~ Brian Tracy

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

~ Denis Waitley

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

~ David Rossi

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

~ Scott Adams

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

~ Paul Murray

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

~ Samuel Beckett

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

~ John Piper

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.

~ Steve Maraboli

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

~ Stephen Fry

If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.

~ Roy T. Bennett

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

~ Jane Green

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

~ Frederick Buechner

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

~ Haruki Murakami

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

~ Bono

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.

~ T.d. Jakes

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself, it gives life to others as it transforms.

~ Lao Tzu

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

~ Carroll Bryant

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

~ Robert E. Howard

The past can not be cured.

~ Elizabeth I

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

~ T.s. Eliot

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

~ Tonya Hurley

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

~ Brian Tracy

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

~ Craig Ferguson

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever.- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

~ Masashi Kishimoto

You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.

~ Steve Maraboli

You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?

~ J.m. Darhower

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

~ Anthony Robbins

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

~ Sarah Dessen

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

~ John Green

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

~ Joseph Campbell

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.- Matthew 6:25-34

~ Anonymous

No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.

~ Rick Riordan

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

~ Masashi Kishimoto