Life Quotes

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realis

~ Dylan Moran

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

~ Oscar Wilde

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold

~ Dale Wasserman

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

~ Kelly Cutrone

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

~ Bill Copeland

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

~ Stephen King

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

~ Sue Miller

Like everyone, I have my challenges—but they sure don’t have me.

~ Alex Staniforth

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

~ Edward Abbey

God will do everything possible to help you, to prepare you for what he had called you to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith

~ Sunday Adelaja

This mindset will eliminate any excuse and illuminate all possibilities. In the end, you will be liberated from fear and enthusiastically embrace a new form of living that will carry you to your goals.

~ Farshad Asl

Numbers are important to the life, you better stay good at arithmetics.

~ Ahtizaz Wani

Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple.

~ Tony Curl

And we have the tools. We have the tools to choose. They are free, and within you now! It is the tool of conscious thought. Imagine your life and how it could be better if you used the power of conscious thought effectively?

~ Tony Curl

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Goals want to be realized as soon as they're created.

~ Zoltan Andrejkovics

The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.

~ Chris Matakas

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

~ George Leonard

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and tough decisions, in order to achieve something bigger.

~ Saad Salman

Life is a chain of events; a journey. Tomorrow's opportunities are a reflection of today's decisions .The good thing is, tomorrow never ends. Every new day comes with a chance to secure tomorrow

~ Asuni Ladyzeal

A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.

~ Steven Redhead

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

~ Gyan Nagpal

Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

~ Ron Baratono

What about you? What are you going to be?” I knew immediately I shouldn’t have asked. His smile faded, and he looked down at his hands in his lap. I’d about had enough of tiptoeing around his illness. “How do you expect God to heal you if you don’t even believe it?” I spoke firmly to make sure my own heart got the message as well. “I believe that you, Matthew Doyle, are going to be fine someday. So when I ask you what you want to do with your life, I ask cause I know you’re going to have a life! I’m tired of all this moping around waiting to die malarkey.” He raised his eyebrows and pushed himself forward in the chair. “I know what you believe, Ruby. You been saying it since the day you got here. And I ain’t getting any better. You’re just putting me in a position of disappointing you, and I can’t hardly stand that. Don’t you think I want a life?” “I don’t know. Do you?” “Of course I do!

~ Jennifer H. Westall

Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.

~ Markus Zusak

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

~ Tony Curl

Sometimes a goal in life we are striving for may seem dim or unreachable. Direction has suddenly changed so fast we’re left with aimless thoughts and confusion. Don’t be troubled! You’ve proved to yourself you have the drive. Your new direction will come with patience. Each of us need time to rest our heart and mind before we reach the next mountain.

~ Ron Baratono

Struggle for Your Goals, because its too much better than Struggling for Your Life.

~ Fahad Rashiq

Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?

~ Marilyn L. Rice

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work–life balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life’s work—holistically seeking both success and satisfaction.

~ Eric C. Sinoway

A goal will always tell you where you don't want to be.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

~ Dean Koontz

If it has to be it's up to me.

~ Anonymous