Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes

This is where I will be keeping track of my quotes. It will be easier to tell duplicates.

My list of 365 inspiring quotes2 years ago

It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

Bilbo Baggins 1 week ago

“Engrave this on your heart: there isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’d heard their story.” – Mary Lou Kownacki 2 weeks ago

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

- Michael Altshuler 2 weeks ago

“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2 weeks ago

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

- Barack Obama 2 weeks ago

“Action conquers fear.”
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“Live every act fully, as if it were your last.”
- Buddha, founder of Buddhism.

“Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”

- Tony Robbins, a truly inspiring author, speaker, entrepreneur and authentic human bring. 2 weeks ago

1. “Don’t go for looks they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth even that fades. go for someone who makes you smile every day for it only takes a smile to make a dark day bright”
2. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
3. “Anger is a bad adviser.”
4. “Money may buy you a mattress to sleep on, but it won’t buy you a good night’s sleep.”
5. “I do not fear the dark; I fear what is in it.”
6. “Talk does not boil rice.”
7. “Dance like no one’s watching. Sing like no one’s listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt before”
8. “You can’t chew with somebody else’s teeth.”
9. “May you live all the days of your life.”
10. “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
11. “If you want to be loved by somebody who isn’t already in your family, it doesn’t hurt to be beautiful.”
12. “The apple does not fall far from the tree.”
13. “The road to success is always under construction.”
14. “Give a man a job he loves and he will never work a day in his life.”
15. “When elephants battle, the ants perish.”
16. “Opportunity only knocks; temptation kicks down the door.”
17. “Love looks through a telescope; envy looks through a microscope.”
18. “To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
19. “Live can only be understood backwards; it must be lived forwards.”
20. “When befriended; remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”
21. “In peace; sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.”
22. “In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.”
23. “To be born a gentleman is an accident; to die one, an achievement.”
24. “Deep thoughts, deep wisdom; small thoughts, little wisdom.”
25. “A wise man knows everything; a shrewd man knows everybody.”
26. “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
27. “Wise men learn from other men’s mistakes; fools learn by their own.”
28. “The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.”
29. “Talent without genius isn’t much; genius without talent is nothing.”
30. “Exercise is unnecessary. If healthy you don’t need it; if unwell you shouldn’t take it.”
31. “Streams become crooked from taking the path of least resistance; it is the same with people.”
32. “Nothing is impossible; it just hasn’t been done yet.”
33. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
34. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
35. “Some say holding on is what makes you strong, but sometimes it takes much more strength to just let go and move on.”
36. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”
37. “Never let problems to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
38. “Pay attention to the little things. Great doors swing on little hinges.”
39. “Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you.”
40. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
41. “To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself.”
42. “When life gives you lemons; squeeze them in people’s eyes.”
43. “Cowards die many times; brave men die only once.”
44. “He who has fed a stranger may have fed an angel.”
45. “All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given you.”
46. “Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
47. “Passion is about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”
48. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.”
49. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
50. “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the axe.”
51. “After the rain there is no need for an umbrella.”
52. “Uni-verse, one song.”
53. “Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.”
54. “If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
55. “I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”
56. “Impossible is a word weak people use, TO JUSTIFY GIVING UP!”
57. “Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wings; only one thing endures, and that’s character.”
58. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
59. “Hugging is a good medicine for everyone. It transfers energy and gives the person being hugged an emotional lift. You need four hugs a day for survival, eight for maintenance, and twelve for growth. Hugging is a form of communication because it can say things you don’t have the words for. And the nicest thing about a hug is that you usually can’t give one without getting one back.”
60. “The quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.”
61. “The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
62. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
63. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
64. “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
65. “All religions are different doors to the same room. Sometimes I think that room exists, sometimes I think it does not.”
66. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
67. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
68. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
69. “There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
70. “The best way out is always through.”
71. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”
72. “Trust is a prison. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”
73. “There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defence or reserve.”
74. “The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it.”
75. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
76. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.
77. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
78. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
79. When we come to the edge of all the light we have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe two things: Either we will find something firm to stand on or we will be taught to fly
80. One can never be content to creep when one feels an impulse to soar!
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
81. Don’t wait for your ship to come in swim out to it!
82. To move the world we must first move ourselves.
83. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
84. I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
85. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
86. Look how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
87. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
88. When life gives you lemons, make apple juice.
89. When life gives you lemons, clone those lemons into super-lemons
90. There must be more than having everything.
91. When life gives you lemons, make lemon grenades.
92. Don’t be humble, you’re not that great.
93. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
94. We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
95. Never say “I Love You” if you don’t really care.
Never talk about feelings if they aren’t really there.
Never hold my hand if you’re going to break my heart.
Never say “I’m going to…” if you’re never going to start.
Never look into my eyes if all your going to do is lie.
96. When I was 5 years old, my mom told me that the key to life was Happiness. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”.
They told me that I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them that they didn’t understand Life.
97. Risk more than others think is safe.
98. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
99. I have not lost my mind; it’s backed up on disk somewhere.
100. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
101. Tomorrow the sun will rise and fall, the rest is up for grabs.
102. In rock paper scissors, laser blasters ALWAYS win.
103. Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
104. Every hill has its valley.
105. Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
106. If you’re the last one fighting, you’re not fighting hard enough
107. An American investment banker was taking a much-needed vacation in a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. The boat had several large, fresh fish in it.
The investment banker was impressed by the quality of the fish and asked the Mexican how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied, “Only a little while.” The banker then asked why he didn’t stay out longer and catch more fish?
The Mexican fisherman replied he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.
The American then asked “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman replied, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos: I have a full and busy life, senor.”
The investment banker scoffed, “I am an Ivy League MBA, and I could help you. You could spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats until eventually you would have a whole fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to the middleman you could sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You could control the product, processing and distribution.”
Then he added, “Of course, you would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City where you would run your growing enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But senor, how long will this all take?”
To which the American replied, “15-20 years.”
“But what then?” asked the Mexican.
The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You could make millions.”
“Millions, senor? Then what?”
To which the investment banker replied, “Then you would retire. You could move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
108. The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end.
109. Because you understand ‘one’, you think that you also understand ‘two’, because ‘one’ and ‘one’ make ‘two’, but you must also understand the ‘and’
110. Get me 5 pounds of bacon, 10 sheep, and lots of duct tape
111. Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner.
112. Most people burn out because they have never been on fire.
113. Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
114. The darkest hour has only 60 minutes.”
115. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway.
116. Most people have the fantasy of catching the train that whistles in the night. 1 month ago

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” – Middlemarch, George Eliot 2 months ago

“Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

- Joseph Campbell, is “the” master of myth and the human condition. Although Campbell died in 1987, he lives on through his work and the many stories he has inspired. 2 months ago

“Look back in forgiveness, look forwards in trust. Be here now in Love.”

- Jackson Kiddard, author & polymath 2 months ago

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” – Middlemarch, George Eliot 2 months ago

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” – Bill Cosby, pure amazing genius. 2 months ago

“A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.”

- Paulo Coelho, from his best-selling book "The Alchemist". 2 months ago

To run outside surrounded by a beautiful natural setting where the air is crisp and cool, the sun is shining, and all I can do is admire my surroundings and listen to my body in motion. 2 months ago

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

~ Albert Einstein 3 months ago

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher 3 months ago

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

~ Abraham Lincoln 3 months ago

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
Toni Morrison 3 months ago

“Justice is what love looks like in public. Tenderness is what love feels like in private.” 3 months ago

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere”
~ Frank A. Clark 4 months ago

“Sometimes what you want isn’t always what you get, but in end what you get is so much better than what you wanted” 4 months ago

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
~ Barack Obama 4 months ago

“The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns”
~Lana Turner 4 months ago

“If you don’t like something change it; If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it”
~ Mary Engelbreit 4 months ago