Quotes on Inspirational Life

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.