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Inspirational Life Quotes and Sayings that make you think

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Indian proverb

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good. ~Bl. John Cardinal Newman

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ~Pope Paul VI

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. ~Gerard Way

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life… but what is that something? ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ~Albert Einstein

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” ~Sydney J. Harris

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Don`t go through life, grow through life. ~Eric Butterworth

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment. ~Richard Bach

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. ~John Homer Miller

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes. ~Charles R. Swindoll

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~Leo Buscaglia

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ~Anonymous

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. ~Tom Bodett

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Howard Thurman

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change. ~Arabic proverb

Every time you wake up ask yourself What good things am I going to do today? Remember that when the sun goes down at sunset it will take a part of your life with it. ~Native American proverb

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

12 Wisdom Quotes

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” ~ Sophocles

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ~ Seneca

“Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.” ~ Carrie Latet

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” ~ Sandra Carey

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.” ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” ~ Confucius

Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain Hilarious Quotes

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

I love hilarious quotes, especially from great people, like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Let me share with you some of them:

“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“Journalism is unreadable, literature is never read.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

“It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” – Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.” – Oscar Wilde

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” –Oscar Wilde

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” –Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.” – Oscar Wilde

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” – Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“When angry count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain

“In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” –Mark Twain

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.” – Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

Failure Quotes

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

– “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Failure is an event, never a person.” – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

– “The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.” – William Strong

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

– “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

– “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

– “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

– “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Schuller

– “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles F. Kettering

– “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

– “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman

– “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald