inspirational Life Quotes

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attributed to Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) pg 74, and also Thoreau elsewhere, but no instance of the quote can be found before 1990, so the authorship of the quote is disputed. Add Category or Author

"Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." — Peace Pilgrim
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"There's no next time. It's now or never." — Author Unknown
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"To create more positive results in your life, replace 'if only' with 'next time'." — Author Unknown
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"There is more to life than increasing its speed." — Mahatma Gandhi
As quoted in Once Upon A Dream (2004) pg. 163 Add Category or Author

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." — James Conant
As quoted in Gleanings in bee culture (1949) Volume 77; Volume 77 Reportedly spoken while Conant was lecturing at Harvard University. Add Category or Author

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Soren Kierkegaard
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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anais Nin
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"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." — Werner Braun
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"In three words I can sum up what I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost
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"My life is my message." — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma : Life of Gandhi 1869-1948 (1968) Reel 13 Response to a journalist's question about what his message to the world was. Add Category or Author

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." — George Burns
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"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." — Steve Jobs
Stanford University commencement address (12 June 2005) During Jobs's address to the students and faculty, he spoke of his dropping out of college and how important the choices he made while still a dropout were to his eventual success. Add Category or Author

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well" — Josh Billings
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"The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek." — Author Unknown
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"Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream." — Author Unknown
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." — Author Unknown
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"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — James M. Barrie
As quoted in Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled (1917) pg. 144 Add Category or Author

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." — Helen Keller
We Bereaved (1929) Add Category or Author