25 Short Life Quotes to Live By Inspirational

The best collection of inspirational life quotes to inspire you to live life better. Each life quote is a nugget of wisdom worth putting on our calendar.

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

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
Anonymous

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Anonymous

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno

What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while
Heather Richards

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
Shing Xiong

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
Anonymous

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what you make of it.
Anonymous

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo, author of Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables

The best things in life are free.
Anonymous

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

The man that had no shoes thought his life was over until he saw a man with no feet.
Famous Life Quotes Saying

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine
Buddha

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
Joanna R. Macy

Live the life you've dreamed
David Henry Thoreau

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Short Positive Quotes about Life

Best collection of powerful positive life quotes to provide cheer, perspective and insight for lifting your life spirits.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

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

If you don't like where you are, go someplace else; if you don't like who you work with, go work with somebody else.
Wally Amos

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
Arnold H. Glasow

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive. Enjoy the day. Live life to the fullest. Make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

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

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
Anonymous

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy
Maya Angelou

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard

Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
Anonymous

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
Anonymous

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
Albert Einstein

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
Randall G Leighton

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
Ernest Hemingway

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced.
Rhonda Byrne, Secrets

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Dalai Lama

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton, on life

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Les Brown

I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.
Deepak Chopra

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.
Brian Tracy

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Anonymous

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Motivational Story about Anger

Very long ago there lived a boy who got angry over every little thing. Seeing the boy struggle with his temper, the father called the boy one day and gave him a bag of nails.

“Every time you get angry, drive one nail to the wooden fence,” said the father.

The boy prone to anger drove dozens of nails into the fence on the first day. On the second, he nailed much less. And as days passed by he slowed down.

Finally he realized that it was easy to control his temper than do this job of nailing the fence. Then came a day when he didn’t use a single nail.

Happy that he had controlled his anger, he went to his father and said, “Father, I haven’t lost my temper the whole of today.”

“Good. Now go and pull out all the nails in the fence,” said the father.

The boy did as told.

Now, the fence was full of holes.

Then the father took him to the fence, “Can you see the holes in the fence, my dear son. That’s what happens when you get angry and say or do something. It leaves an ugly scar. No matter how many times you say sorry, the wound remains unhealed.”

Notes: A big stone when thrown into a pond of clear water kicks up the mud and makes it hazy. Anger is very much like this; it clouds your judgment and makes your head fuzzy. And anything said or done in a moment of rage leaves a scar in your mind, more than anybody else’s. Likes the holes in the fence, these are a stark reminder of the damage caused, the agony. Once you realize this, you tend to stop reacting to every little thing. And finally, you become cool and calm. You begin to think, without reacting. The misery and pain no longer troubles you and you’re at peace with yourself and the world.

Rajasekar Raju KS

Never Give Up Quotations to Motivate You Daily

Dont ever give up quotes to boost your motivation daily. These quotes are bound to stir up your energy and focus and make it a positive day for you.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Former American President

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach, author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingstin Seagul

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Anonymous

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, champion basketball player

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
Anonymous

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie, author of Effective Public Speaking and many other books

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Anonymous

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot, American Business Tycoon

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Anonymous

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
Anonymous

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis

A little fish in a big pond can get to be a big fish in that pond, but a big fish in a little pond cannot get any better off.
Anonymous

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Col Harland Sanders

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
André A. Jackson

You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something.
TV show host Family Matters

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
Anonymous

You can motivate by fear and reward, but these are temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.
Anonymous

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison, American Scientist with over 7000 patents

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Lessons the River Taught Me

It was six in the evening as I walked about lazily along the banks of the river. I had passed by many times on my way to school and enjoyed its blue waters shimmering in the sun. Glistening like white pearls the waters seemed to gurgle as if talking to the fishes, frogs and tadpoles. Not to mention the trees alongside the banks.

Those days I remember I swam in the shallow waters and played with friends splashing the cool water on each other. Sometimes even drinking a handful. It was refreshing. Much better than the piped water at home. We were always late to school whenever we played. Many a time we went by boat. The boatmen would charge only the elders but kids like us would get a free ride.

“Big brother” – one of the boatmen sometimes sang a native song or two when he was in a good mood. And I and my friends looked up at him as our hero. Tall and skinny, the beads of sweat would glisten as they rolled down his forehead and arms. He seemed to row as if he were enjoying it and never showed signs of strain.

One day I found him quiet as he rowed as back in the evening. “What happened,” I pained by the silence. And the sorrowful eyes of the usually cheerful “big brother”. At first he didn’t seem to hear. But when I asked him again, tears rolled down his cheeks. He stopped rowing but the boat moved slowly in the waters as if it understood that the boatman was tired and therefore it had to help.

“My son died yesterday. He was only seven.”

I didn’t know how to react. There was something strange emotion swelling up in me. Grief or what, I didn’t know. But I managed to ask, “why..what happened?”

A long and painful silence followed.

Then he looked at me and said, “he was not well for sometime.”

I didn’t have the courage to ask further. He picked up the oar and rowed again. And I was soon lost in my own thoughts about “big brother’s” sadness. How a big man could cry, I thought. I had never seen my father cry. I was so lost in the thoughts that I didn’t realize that we were on the other bank.

“Raja, come let’s go,” he said.

“Yes..” I murmured and held on to his outstretched hand to jump out of the shaky boat.
Pulling the boat towards the shore, he tied it to a tree. I stood there looking at his muscles work. I seemed so fascinated by everything he did.

He saw me standing there in a trance. “Don’t you want to go home today,” he queried.

“Why don’t you sing a song for your son?”

He managed a smile. “Not today son.” “Maybe another day I’ll take you to my home and make fish curry for you.”

“You like fish curry?”

“Yes..yes” I muttered. My mouth was already salivating at the thought of it.

“See you soon,” I said and disappeared into the woods which I had to cross to reach home. I had to hurry. It was threatening to rain.

Four days later I met him.

Four days later I met him. He seemed much better. He was smiling. I felt nice seeing him as the old “big brother”. I stretched my hand towards him. He lifted me gently and placed me on the boat, close to where he stood and rowed.

Today the water seemed to be a little agitated as water gushed faster and stronger than before. I wondered why.

He seemed to understand my fear.

“It’s been like this for some weeks now. The new factory that has come up is throwing all its chemical waste into this godly river,” he said.

Factory! Yes, I vaguely remember many excited and curious men and women walk towards the factory some months ago. They were talking about a rich man who had promised jobs for many in our village. “They have come to destroy the charm of this place,” said my dad one day. Yes, I remember my uncle too went to the factory.

“Is the river angry at the garbage thrown into it?” I asked.

“She’s a nice lady, you know. She’s a bit irritated. But she’ll forgive. She has a big heart,” said “big Brother.”

I thought about what he said. Forgiving. When I was young the river was fresher and clearer. And often when I sat on the banks dangling my feet in its waters, I have seen the tadpoles at the bottom. The sun would seep into its depth as if playing hide and seek with the river. And the river didn’t to mind it.

The mud and bits and pieces of others things it gathered, it carried along tirelessly. Never complaining. Never burdened. Even the big boats with all its passengers, it had never hurt anyone who came by it. But how can someone bear all this and for how long, I used to wonder.

But the river seemed to joyfully forget its worries and strode ahead. Gurgling and gushing as it rushed its way towards its mother – the ocean.

While at school I always wanted to see the ocean. I wanted to see the happiness of a mother than had such wonderful children who danced and jumped in joy all the time.

Now, at forty something, I long to live by the river. But can’t seem to find one close by.

Rajasekar Raju KS

Best Don't Fail to Try Quotes

A collection of short motivational quotes on Don't fail to try, to lift your sagging spirits every morning.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.
William Strong

I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

Do it, fix it, try it.
Tom Peters

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
William E. Hickson

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
The Rolling Stones

You always pass failure on your way to success.
Mickey Rooney

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
Ray Goforth

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi

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.
Anonymous

In the end, the only people who fail are those who don't try.
David Viscott