Inspirational Life famous quotes
04-23-2025
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
-- Adora Svitak -
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
-- Agatha Christie -
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-- Albert Camus -
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
-- Alice Walker -
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.
-- Alicia Keys -
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-- Anais Nin -
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.
-- Anais Nin -
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
-- Andrew Harvey -
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
-- Andrew Johnson -
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
-- Andrew Murphy -
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
-- Andrew Shue -
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.
-- Anna Quindlen -
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
-- Anne Lamott -
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
-- Anne Lamott -
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.
-- Apolo Ohno -
...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.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
-- Audre Lorde -
There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
-- Barack Obama -
They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
-- Barbara Jordan -
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
-- Barry Lopez -
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
-- Barry Lopez -
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
-- Barry Lopez -
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
-- Barry Lopez -
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
-- Benjamin Harrison -
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-- Bernard Williams -
It's been amazing to touch people's lives.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
-- Blaise Pascal -
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
-- Brendan Gill -
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
-- Brené Brown -
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
-- Brené Brown -
Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
-- Brian Tracy -
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
-- Bud Wilkinson -
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-- Burton Hill -
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
-- Catherine the Great -
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
-- Charles Caldwell Ryrie -
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.
-- Chidananda Saraswati -
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati -
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.
-- Clarence Francis -
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
-- Clement Mok -
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
-- Dave Barry -
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.
-- David Korten -
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
-- David Richo -
It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.
-- David Spangler -
Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.
-- Debra Evans -
What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
-- Deepak Chopra -
No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.
-- Denise Levertov -
I'm very happy to say that my home life is my haven.
-- Derek Acorah -
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
-- Donald Curtis -
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-- Dr. Seuss -
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- E. M. Forster -
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
-- Edith Hamilton -
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
-- Edwin Land -
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
-- Emily Dickinson -
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
-- Eric Roth -
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?
-- Ernest Becker -
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
-- Ernest Becker
