76 Quotes To Live By
Certain quotes could be said to be quotes to live by; they offer wisdom, encouragement and advice that can be applied to every day life.
- If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life. Author Unknown
Future - Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Words of Encouragement - Generosity invites us to put ourselves in another’s shoes, see and feel the existence of a pressing need, realize that it is within our power to help, and then act in whatever way we can. Barbara Bonner, Inspiring Generosity
Generosity - Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first Earl Nightingale
Funny Quotes about Life - We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
Giving - Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Veronica A. Shoffstall
Inspirational Poems - Every life is a story, make yours a best seller.
Graduation - Inspire others with your actions not with your words. Catherine Pulsifer
Encouraging Poems - A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational Quotes - I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. Lucille Ball
Regret - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn
Motivational - One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. Josh Billings
Trouble - A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do. Joel Osteen
Motivational Quotes -
Poems about Life - “Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here,
so live today and enjoy the year.”
Catherine Pulsifer
Birthday Wishes - Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. Dalai Lama
Listening - Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. Paulo Coelho
Fear - Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else. Les Brown
Sorry - The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. George Orwell
Good - You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. C. S. Lewis
Poems about God - Do or do not there is no try. Yoda
Wise - We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing; we really should. Bill Gates
Kitchen - God wants you to fly. He wants you to fly free of yesterday’s guilt. He wants you to fly free of today’s fears. He wants you to fly free of tomorrow’s grave. Max Lucado
God - Count your blessings, not your troubles.
Blessed - I don’t care if you’re a gazelle or a lion, when the sun is up! You better get to running! Eric Thomas
Famous - Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
Encouraging - Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Matthew 6:27
Encouraging Bible Verses - Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown
Believe In Yourself - Don’t just count your years, make your years count. George Meredith
Birthday - Whatever the problem we have in our life, someone has faced it and overcome it. David DeNotaris
Quotes about Overcoming - Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work.
Do more than teach; inspire.
William Arthur Ward
Inspiring Others - The small responsibilities you have before you now comprise the first great leadership conquest you must make. Don’t try to conquer the world until you’ve taken care of things in your own backyard. John Maxwell , The Maxwell Daily Reader
Leadership - We are the only ones responsible for what goes on in our lives. We can make excuses and blame others, but we are responsible to and for ourselves. Iyanla Vanzant, Acts of Faith
Excuses - It is a fine thing, when you are slandered, not to hear it. And it is a better thing to never reply to it. Charles Spurgeon
Inspirational Sayings - You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink English Proverbs
Proverbs - Love doesn’t just happen to you. Love is a choice, and it represents a commitment.
Rick Warren
Commitment - The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Deepak Chopra
Influence - . . . be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. James 1:19
Anger - But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice. Jesus, Luke 11:28
Jesus Poems - If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away. Confucius
Being Yourself - Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should. Charles Dickens
Discouraged - The most important things in life aren’t things. Anthony J. D’Angelo
Top Ten Quotes - All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
Courage - Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot
Greatness - I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. Oprah Winfrey
Quotes about Taking A Risk - If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. Ray Kroc
Customer Service - Antidote to depression is gratitude.
Gratitude - Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today? Albert Camus
Choices - If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge - Now I look beyond what I can’t do and focus on what I CAN. Robert M. Hensel
Focus - One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
Effort - A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative, he refuses to dwell on it. Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Thinking - Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
- We can learn from each other as we search for our own path.Barbara Kopitz, Morning Meditations
Good Morning - You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them – for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. Dalai Lama
Compassion - “One minute of encouragement has more impact than an hour of preaching.” Catherine Pulsifer
Daily Motivation - He can who believes he can. Proverb
Believe - A fact of life we all die. But the positive impact you have on others will be a living legacy. Catherine Pulsifer
Death - One thing I can’t recycle is wasted time.
Time - You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins
Action - Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess. Daniel Smith, Banned Subconscious Mind Secrets
Balance - Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love - When you invest in yourself and your self-care, there are no negative experiences. What have you got to lose? Jody Shield, Lifetonic.
Empowering Quotes - Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. Helen Steiner Rice
Christmas - There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” Denis Waitley
Accountability - Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars…or your two legs… or your hands…or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you’ll find you won’t sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them. Dale Carnegie
Appreciation - … don’t be the person who passes up an opportunity to take positive action for their life. Be the kind of person who integrates positive change in their life. Be the kind of person who inspires others with their positive changes. Be the kind of person who takes charge of their life now. Sonia Weyers, Happiness Now!
Poems about Regret - Remember you are always the master of your life, even in your weakest state. Dr. Mahmoud Rashidi MD FRCSC FACS
Control - Now every godly, gracious man hath this power, to reflect upon hit own action. William Bridge
Reflection - If you try to force something to happen, it won’t. If it is meant to happen, it will. Jonathan Reid, Karma & Happiness
Karma - The past must never be interfere with the present because its impossible to move ahead while looking behind. Nice Lady, Hard Drive Purge
Miss You - It is you who know best how to represent your interests , your differences and your commitment to equality . Margo Gorman, Council of Europe, All Different, All Equal
Equality - Knowing peace and justice, intimately and politically, seems more important today than ever before. Tessa Hicks Peterson, Student Development and Social Justice
Justice - We need to keep walking out of the swamp- all the way to restoration of the soul. Derik Overly, Issues of the Soul
Soul - My philosophy is to do what I feel is right, not what other people think. McGraw-Hill, Education Essential ESL Dictionary
Philosophy - Life is just as good as you see it, therefore cultivate the habit of learning more, surrounding yourself with people who empower you and make the possibility of your dreams a reality. Go to good places that inspire you, fascinate your imagination and liberate your spirit. Seanaphoka Tsapi, The Greatness In You
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