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Words To Live By Quotes

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. β€” Muhammad Ali

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way. β€” Dorothy Day

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. β€” John F. Kennedy

Live to inspire quote Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management. β€” Howard Schultz

No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God! β€” John R. Rice

I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same. β€” Sijie Dai

Live to inspire quote You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. β€” Joni Eareckson Tada

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank. β€” D. Elton Trueblood

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. β€” W. T. Purkiser

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God. β€” David Platt

How To Inspire Quotes

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” β€” Afeni Shakur

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. β€” Maya Angelou

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. β€” Carl Rogers

Live to inspire quote I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength t
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. β€” Abdul Kalam

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. β€” Ed Cunningham

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. β€” Leo Buscaglia

Live to inspire quote If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. β€” Nicky Gumbel

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. β€” Sarah Kay

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! β€” Andrew Murray

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. β€” Haruki Murakami

Inspire And Motivate Quotes

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. β€” Steve Jobs

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. β€” Nido R Qubein

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. β€” Abraham Lincoln

Live to inspire quote Be on a rampage of appreciation every single day!
Be on a rampage of appreciation every single day!

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. β€” Christian D. Larson

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. β€” Zig Ziglar

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. - Douglas Ivester

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. β€” Douglas Ivester

Live to inspire quote It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. β€” Immanuel Kant

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. β€” Charles Dickens

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. - Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. β€” Rosa Parks

We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. β€” Lal Bahadur Shastri

Positive Inspire Quotes

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. β€” Winston Churchill

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day β€” Alice Morse Earle

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. β€” Paramahansa Yogananda

Live to inspire quote Either get busy living or get busy dying.
Either get busy living or get busy dying.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. β€” Swami Vivekananda

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. β€” Mother Teresa

When you can’t change the direction of the wind β€” adjust your sails β€” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Live to inspire quote Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. β€” Dalai Lama

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. β€” John Lennon

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. β€” William Faulkner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. β€” Lao Tzu

Inspiring Others Quotes

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. β€” John Quincy Adams

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. β€” Soren Kierkegaard

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. β€” Dalai Lama

Live to inspire quote Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. β€” Unknown Author

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. β€” Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. β€” Ray Comfort

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. β€” Francis of Assisi

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. β€” Banana Yoshimoto

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. β€” Norman Vincent Peale

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. β€” Michelle Obama

Love And Inspiration Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. β€” Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly β€” Paulo Coelho

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. β€” Dalai Lama

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. β€” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. β€” Clare of Assisi

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. β€” Sigmund Freud

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. β€” Ella Fitzgerald

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. β€” Rumi

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. β€” Unknown Author

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. β€” Sarojini Naidu

You Are My Inspiration Quotes

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. β€” Tony Robbins

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. - C. S. Lewis

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. β€” C. S. Lewis

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. β€” Zig Ziglar

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, β€˜I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. β€” Joel Osteen

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being. β€” St. Catherine of Siena

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. β€” Helen Keller

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. β€” Eustache Deschamps

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. β€” Kate Hudson

These words are mine, I tell them to my boys. You have walked in my footsteps, and now you walk beside me, but eventually pass me by, so that I can see you in front of me. β€” Bill Miller

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. β€” Plato

Inspire Creativity Quotes

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. β€” Mae Jemison

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old β€” Peter Drucker

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. β€” Michelangelo

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. β€” Benjamin Bloom

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. β€” Albert Einstein

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. β€” Pablo Picasso

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. β€” Massimo Vignelli

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. β€” Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. β€” Tina Turner

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. β€” M. Scott Peck

More Live To Inspire Quotes

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. β€” Madam C. J. Walker

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. β€” Nancy Reagan

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. β€” Ralph Marston

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... β€” Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau quote

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. β€” Henry David Thoreau

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. β€” Dalai Lama

Learn from yesterday, live for today. β€” Albert Einstein

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. β€” Alan Watts

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. β€” Dr. Seuss

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. β€” Henry David Thoreau

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. β€” Norman Vincent Peale

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. β€” Albert Einstein

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. β€” Mae Jemison

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us. β€” Michelle Obama

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. - Pablo Neruda quote

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. β€” Pablo Neruda

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. β€” Confucius

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. β€” John Dewey

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. β€” Huldrych Zwingli

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. β€” Richard P. Feynman

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. β€” Theodore Roosevelt

No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that. β€” Leonard Peltier

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. β€” Nelson Mandela

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love. β€” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. β€” Ernest Hemingway

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. β€” Muhammad Ali

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. β€” Neil Gaiman

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived. β€” Marilyn Monroe

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. β€” Bo Schembechler

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. β€” Christine Caine

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. β€” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. β€” Francis Bacon

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. β€” Swami Vivekananda

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. β€” Teresa of Avila

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. β€” Anthony of Padua

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one β€” Bruce Lee

I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long. β€” Howard Thurman

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. β€” John Piper

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us. β€” Pope Francis

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. β€” Carlos Castaneda

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution β€” Frederick Douglass

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. β€” John Lennon

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. β€” Margaret J. Wheatley

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. β€” Solanus Casey

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