Inspirational Quotes To Live By

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Inspirational Quotes - To Live By Them Is Not Such A Bad Idea

The process of finding inspirational quotes to live by to help guide you through tough times can get a bit tedious unless you narrow your focus on what you're looking for. The great thing about living in today's world is that the Internet allows us to do this very easily whether you're looking for quotes about love, hate, change, success or writing. This lens will not focus in as much on certain themes, but instead try to relay words of wisdom that can help make your journey through life just a little easier.

I have been using these wise sayings for years to help guide me through almost every part of my life and consider myself very lucky to have a nice collection of them at home. Before I had access to the online world, I use to always carry around a small notebook to jot down positive thoughts whenever I would run across them. As anyone who tries to remember an important idea knows; they can easily slip into oblivion if you're not careful and it won't matter how hard you try to remember them - they may never return to you. Despite having several notebooks filled with amazing passages and quotations, I always try to carry a small notepad and pen with me wherever I go to write down any pearls of wisdom I may come across. What you will find below are some of my favorites; a lot from those very notebooks. I hope you find them as useful as I still do.

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Inspiring Quotes That Can Help You Through Life

1-Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

2-The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo

3-Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do. ~Bruce Crampton

4-Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop

5-Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

6-Ask yourself this question: Will this matter a year from now? ~Richard Carlson

7-Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. ~Ray Bradbury

8-True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion. ~Teresa Amabile

9-You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. ~Jerry Gillies

10-Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson

11-A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ~Henrik Ibsen

12-To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. ~Reba McEntire

13-Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. ~Reynolds Price

14-Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. ~Judy Garland

15-To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inspirational Sayings To Live By

16-Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde

17-The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. ~Unknown

18-To be loved and trusted by those who know us best is life's greatest compliment. ~Jack Anthony

19-Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie

20-The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. ~Tenzin Gyatso

21-People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ~Oliver Goldsmith

22-He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb

23-You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C.S. Lewis

24-Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
~Unknown

25-Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. ~Marianne Williamson

26-I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby

27-There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb

28-Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring. ~Grace Lichtenstein

29-Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~E.E. Cummings

30-Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~Buddha
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Words of Wisdom Everyone Should Pay Attention To

31-Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt

32-Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

33-One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard

34-There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps

35-My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton

36-I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

37-Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid

38-There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan

39-Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets

40-There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~Robert Brault

41-You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp

42-Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine

43-To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson

44-Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein

45-The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
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All Quotes Are Not Kind Or Inspiring

But most do teach a lesson - if we are willing to listen.

46-A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. ~Lewis Mumford

47-There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. ~Robert Orben

48-I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field

49-People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ~Andrew Carnegie

50-You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice. ~Japanese Proverb

51-Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. ~Katharine Graham

52-It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~Walter Lippmann

53-Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

54-Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

55-Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ~Vince Lombardi

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Inspirational Quotes You Want To Share?

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  • Keeah May 24, 2012 @ 11:21 am | delete
    You are the Bartlett's of Squidoo! Great Lens!
  • Ryan_Will May 15, 2012 @ 4:21 pm | delete
    I was looking for some inspirational quotes to help me...thanks
  • poldepc May 10, 2012 @ 11:00 am | delete
    VERY GOOD
  • RuralFloridaLiving May 2, 2012 @ 10:27 pm | delete
    You have a great lens. Very inspiring. It's nice to have some time to just think through the thoughts you've shared. Thanks.
  • Centavo Apr 1, 2012 @ 2:08 pm | delete
    You have made another great lens. I love quotes and some of the posters that go with them are phenomenal. I used "YOU CAN DO IT!" lots when i taught school. I like to live by "treat others as you would like to be treated"
  • Chrmdpoet Mar 25, 2012 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    Great lens! You should check out my lens on top 20 book quotes on growth, understanding, and acceptance. Great job!!
  • SereneSea Mar 20, 2012 @ 1:28 am | delete
    Interesting collection of Inspiring Quotes, they never cease to inspire.
  • PoeticChristian Mar 16, 2012 @ 12:15 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing this lens, It is inspiring to me. Thanks for sharing. I would like to include it on my own lens. Here's my Quote-God goes above and beyond~where NO MAN can take you #PoecticalChristian (twitter) Blessings
  • manishrocks Mar 4, 2012 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Hey thanks so much for sharing such a superb quotes. I love these kinds of quotes very much and it motivates me. I always like to read motivational quotes because it gives me inspiration to perform my task with full of passion. So inspirational quotes plays a very important role in life and everyone should go through it.
  • ProfessionalSolarPower Feb 28, 2012 @ 6:49 am | delete
    Amazing quotes. Thank you for all the quotes that I will keep with me.
  • girlfriendfactory Jan 30, 2012 @ 2:40 pm | delete
    Love these! I don't have by the computer, but many on the computer or memorized! lol Great job! Worth a Flyby Winging that can be found among the other blessed lenses at Flyby Wingings They may call me an aimless wanderer, but not all who wander are aimless and I'm glad I wandered upon this! ~Ren
  • kathysart Dec 31, 2011 @ 11:24 am | delete
    Out beyond ideas of right doings and wrong doings, there is a field, I'll meet you there. ~Rumi Thumbs up lens and angel blessed.
  • flicker Dec 20, 2011 @ 11:06 pm | delete
    Here's the quote that struck me the most: "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." from J. Brotherton . Nice lens!
  • Winter52 Nov 6, 2011 @ 10:40 am | delete
    I love this lens... I do think that I'm going to get a bulletin board to put over my desk. I like the idea of little sticky notes with quotes that I can glance up at whenever I need a little inspiration! :)
  • Chris Nov 2, 2011 @ 8:11 am | delete
    I love the pictures along with the sayings - do more of that.
  • cffutah Sep 30, 2011 @ 9:31 am | delete
    I only have a minute, just sixty seconds in it, didn't seek it, didn't choose it, forced upon me, can't refuse it; I must suffer if I lose it, give account if I abuse it, its just one tiny little minute but eternity it in it. - There you go, there's my quote! Glad I browsed upon you, if you like to browse lens as I do, mine has a great educational topic with poll questions too for my readers to enjoy.
  • Diane G. Sep 24, 2011 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    I love that you put in a passage from "The Crow" graphic novel by O'Barr. While that book is not for children it is full of beautiful, poetic dialogue. I've recommended it to several friends over the years.

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