Inspirational Life Quotations | Page 4

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Choose people who lift you up.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Work is love made visible.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.

LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.