Positive & Inspirational Life Quotes

Positive Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even give us the courage to pursue our life's dreams. 

Positive Quotes About Life - Inspirational Life Quotes To Live By

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” 

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” – Will Rogers

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” – Zig Ziglar

“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.” – English Proverb

“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

" Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. – Kevin Kruse

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker

The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

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Best 40+ Quotes About Wisdom and Knowledge

Are you looking for some of Quotes About Wisdom and Knowledge ? Then you are at the right place. We, Quotes Inspirational 2016 have published collection Quotes About Wisdom, Learning, Education and Knowledge specially for you.

Quotes About Wisdom and Knowledge

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

Once you label me you negate me. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. Cullen Hightower

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. Edmund Burke

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -- Jim Rohn

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. -- Lao Tzu

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. -- Michael Jordan

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. James Boswell

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. John Patrick

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next -- John Stuart Mill 

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. -- John Wooden

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust 

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -- Audrey Hepburn

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. -- Menander

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. -- Oprah Winfrey

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. -- Quintilian,

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it -- Robbie Gass

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. -- Sophocles 

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. -- George Bernard Shaw

No man is wise enough by himself. -- Titus Maccius Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. -- Titus Maccius Plautus

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. -- Nelson Mandela

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. -- Walt Whitman

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. -- Swami Vivekananda

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. -- William Saroyan

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. -- Walt Disney

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -- William Shakespeare

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200+ Inspiring Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi 2016

200+ Inspiring Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi 2016. I hope you can take some time to soak up the invaluable wisdom from the 200 Gandhi quotes below, and decide for yourself how you will exude your own gentle, strength today.

200+ Inspiring Quotes Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Love and Inclusion

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Change and Service

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Action expresses priorities.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

The future depends on what you do today.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Religion, God and Spirituality

God has no religion.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends but to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Miscellaneous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet

Change yourself – you are in control.

See the good in people and help them.

Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.

Take care of this moment.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

Continue to grow and evolve.

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

It is unwise to be too sure of ones own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

God has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed, always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

My life is my message.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.

We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the “Voice within” tells you.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

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