Valuable Life Quotes:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

topic: Time, Men, Valuable, Managing Time, Time Spent

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

- Charles Bukowski

source: "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Trying, Way, Derision, Valuable Life, Good Fight

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

- Torquato Tasso

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Doe, Inspirational True Love, What Is True Love

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

If you want something, go get it. Period.

- Chris Gardner

topic: Entrepreneur, Want, Periods, Inspiring Movie, Life Changing Inspirational

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

- Rory Cochrane

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Regret, Life Changing, Positive Life, Inspiring Students, Student Motivation

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Choices, Live Your Life, Please, Inspiring Movie, Valuable Life

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Time To Move On

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Life, Notebook, Stay Strong, Valuable Life, Valuable Life Lessons

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Friendship, Book, Making Friends, Bff

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

- Mario Puzo

source: Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.168, Penguin

topic: Men, Greatness, Born, Inspiring Movie, Valuable Life

I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

- Tom Hanks

topic: Here I Am, Breathing, One Day, Cast Away, Inspiring Movie

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

- Mark Bowden

source: "Fictional character: Struecker". "Black Hawk Down", www.imdb.com. December 18, 2001.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Differences, Valuable Life

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Helping Others, Making A Living, Source Of Life

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want..

- Heath Ledger

topic: Want, What You Want, Feels, Inspiring Movie, Feeling Stuck

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Death, Wish, Needs, Inspiring Movie, Motivational Life Changing

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

- Eric Roth

source: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". www.imdb.com. 2008.

topic: Life, I Hate You, Opportunity, Inspiring Movie, Missing Opportunity

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

- John Hughes

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Best Film, Memorable Movie

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

- Stephen King

topic: Inspirational, Life, Business, Favorite Book, Source Of Life

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

Who knows what the tide could bring.

- William Broyles, Jr.

topic: Tides, Inspiring Movie, Cast Away, Castaway, Valuable Life

Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Beach, Believe, Forever, Inspiring Movie, Valuable Life

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

- R. J. Palacio

source: "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

topic: Standing Out, Born, Trying To Fit In, Inspirational Children, Kids Inspirational

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

- Meryl Streep

source: Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

topic: Play, Skills, Acting, Life Skills, Valuable Life

I met my manager when I was in high school and I just started playing guitar. He came from a line of managing incredible artists. He said instead of opting for the quick fix he wanted me to go out and live my life and get some experience under my belt and keep in touch. It took me a long time to get to where I am but I wouldn't change it for nothing. It's been very valuable. Life happened and then the music came.

- Courtney Jaye

topic: School, Artist, Guitar, Valuable Life, Playing Guitar

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

- Jim Evans

topic: Summer, Life Lesson, Lessons, Valuable Life, Valuable Life Lessons

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

- Michael J. Fox

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: Thinking, Age, Life Is, Parkinson's, Valuable Life

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

- Hazel Blears

source: "Britain needs more female spies to follow in the footsteps of these women spooks" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. March 6, 2015.

topic: Life, Mother, Careers, Valuable Life, Recruitment

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Skills, Pretending, Valuable, Life Skills, Valuable Life

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

- Christiane Amanpour

topic: Valuable Life

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

- Zac Efron

topic: Life Lesson, Lessons, Valuable Life, Valuable Life Lessons

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

- Michael Gurian

source: Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Children, Survival Skills, Valuable Life

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

- Agatha Christie

topic: Suicide, Strong, Lying, Valuable Life, Anxiety And Worry