Life Quotes

 Enjoy our collection of famous life quotes to live by. We hope you find these life quotes will help you develop a positive and lasting motivating outlook. Life can be as you make it. If you see there is opportunity, there will be but if you see life as full of negatives that will also be true.

Since we're sort of dead batteries until we get charged, I found the best way to get a buzz started was by doing something physical that would jump-start me into a nice feeling. So, lacking cables, I used a smile!
Lynn Grabhorn,
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting

People are inspired by the self-sacrifice of others.
Deborah Norville, The Power Of Respect

Life: It is a great mystery containing many smaller mysteries. It appears to be some sort of shared energy system that is unfolding and changing all the time.
J. Q. Hannah, Lessons From The Heart Room


Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn't. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

The fact that life isn't fair doesn't mean we shouldn't do everything in our power to improve our own lives or the world as a whole. To the contrary, it suggests that we should. When we don't recognize or admit that life isn't fair, we tend to feel pity for others and for ourselves.
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Craving the comfort of desired events and outcomes, we ignore the uncomfortable but exhilarating gifts of living life as a continually unfolding process in which all moments are valuable.
Julia Cameron, Transitions, Prayers Declarations For A Changing Life

Technological advancement creates a false gallop that we feel compelled to match, even if we sense in advance that our gait will exhaust us long before we finish the race.
Timothy Smith, Connecting With Your Kids

You're pissed and want to do something about it. But before you act, think about how much crap will come from the fight you are about to start.
Erin Elisabeth Conley, Karen Macklin, Jake Miller, Crap: How To Deal With Annoying Teachers, Bosses, Backstabbers, And Other Stuff That Stinks

Wisdom comes from the heart, it is not of the intellect. Wisdom comes from the innermost depth of your being, it is not of the head.
Osho, Intuition; Knowing Beyond Logic

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.
~ John C. Maxwell, Thinking For A Change

Adding value is really the essence of enlarging others. It's finding ways to help others improve their abilities and attitudes.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees


Open communication fosters trust.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees


A critical barrier to changing many problem behaviors is that serious consequences seem too distant or long-term to matter. By using your imagination to bring the future into the present you can effectively overcome this barrier, and arouse your emotions to the point where you are ready to make a firm commitment to take action.
James O. Prochaska, Ph.D., John C. Norcross, Ph.D., and Carlo C. Diclemente, Ph.D., Changing For Good

One principle to remember is that when we are following our intuitive sense we are following our natural way of living. If doing this seems difficult at first, it is because we have been trained not to do what comes naturally to us.
Shakti Gawain, The Path Of Transformation

Think about the things that bring you joy, then make a point of connecting with as many as possible, as often as possible.
Elaine St. James, 365 Simple Reminders

Make deliberate, conscious efforts to slow yourself down by relaxing your mind. Take a little more time to enjoy your life here on this planet: Be more contemplative by noticing the stars, the clouds, the rivers, the animals, the rainstorms, and all the natural world. And then extend the same slowed-down loving energy to all people.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Being In Balance

Learn to lighten up and not take yourself or life so seriously. I don't mean that you should not be focused and committed to your goals, but sometimes you just have to 'go with the flow'.
Charles M. Marcus, Success Is Not A Spectator Sport

Adistinctive, learning-filled life results from a succession of small, specific choices made each day. There's a world of difference between imagining such a fulfilling life and actually living it.
Robert K. Cooper, The Other 90%; How To Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential For Leadership and Life



Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Albert Einstein

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Author Unknown

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Author Unknown

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins


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