160 Makes Quotes

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Life is to be enjoyed, not endured - Gordon B. Hinckley

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured — Gordon B. Hinckley

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. - Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. — Charlie Chaplin

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. — Denis Waitley

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. - Robert Baden-Powell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. — Albert Einstein

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. — Jack H. Goaslind

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it. — Edward Bok

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate. — Amy Winehouse

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. - Indira Gandhi

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. — Indira Gandhi

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got. — Ricky Gervais

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. — Zane Grey

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. — Eric Greitens

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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.  - Maya Angelou quote

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou

Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts. - Robin S. Sharma quote

Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts. — Robin S. Sharma

Makes quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Your life will become better by making other lives better. It is not about you. - Will Smith quote

Your life will become better by making other lives better. It is not about you.Will Smith

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. - Hippocrates quote

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. — Hippocrates

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. - Roy Bennett quote

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. — Roy Bennett

Makes quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. - Eckhart Tolle quote

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. — Eckhart Tolle

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%. - Bernie Sanders quote

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%. — Bernie Sanders

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. - Chinese Proverbs quote

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Chinese Proverbs

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. - Al-Ghazali quote

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble - Kevin Gates quote

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble — Kevin Gates

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte quote

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. - Hafez quote

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. — Hafez

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

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

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. - Joseph Joubert quote

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert

Make them scratch their head this year. Don't be afraid to be amazing. - Tony Gaskins quote

Make them scratch their head this year. Don't be afraid to be amazing. — Tony Gaskins

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery quote

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery

Don't count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali quote

Don't count the days, make the days count. — Muhammad Ali

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. - Saadi Shirazi quote

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. — Saadi Shirazi

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies. - Anthony of Padua quote

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies. — Anthony of Padua

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. - Neymar quote

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar

Makes quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Is Life Worth It Quotes

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

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. — Albert Einstein

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. - Jean-Paul Sartre

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service. — George Muller

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom

Makes quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. — Ariana Grande

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. - J. R. R. Tolkien

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. — Dr. Seuss

What Is A Successful Life Quotes

Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. — Stephen Curry

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. — Henry Ford

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey

Makes quote Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - John C. Maxwell

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — John C. Maxwell

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do & then do it. — Henry Ford

Makes quote The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. — Henry Ford

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. — J. Sidlow Baxter

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works. — Yanni

Life Is Worthwhile Quotes

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch

If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

Makes quote It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. — Denzel Washington

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early. — Doug Stanhope

The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. — Vince Lombardi

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile. — Alister E. McGrath

Life Worth Living Quotes

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. — Robert Downey, Jr.

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. — Lord Byron

A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it. — Tony Evans

Make It Worthwhile Quotes

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. — Garry Marshall

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile. — Freddie Mercury

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason. — Wayne Dyer

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see? — Colonel Sanders

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. — Sean Connery

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. — Terry Pratchett

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. — Earl Nightingale

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — Peter Lynch

What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose. — Gloria Gaither

Life Is Worth Living Quotes

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus

Life unexamined, is not worth living. — Democritus

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. — Carl Jung

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. — Alvin Ailey

Life without freedom is not worth living. — Javier Milei

You can take back all the things you give, But you can't take back the days you live. Life is to some people who've been on earth Livin' every single day for what it's worth. I live life just how I please, Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort

Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. - Monica Seles

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. — Monica Seles

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. — John Eldredge

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin

Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. — Anthony Bourdain

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. — Ryan Allis

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it. — Katherine Anne Porter

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. — Plato

Worth Living Quotes

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — Jack Kerouac

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living. — Louise Hay

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. — Martha Graham

If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. — William Ury

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! — David Brainerd

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels. — Paul Bowles

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living! — Rihanna

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70. — David Sinclair

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living. — Marion Woodman

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip. — Dean Karnazes

Do Something Worthwhile Quotes

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. — Pierre Coneille

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile. — Wilfred Grenfell

Make sure the meetings are worthwhile meetings – that they aren't just for the sake of getting together, but they are actually doing something and that the right people are together. — Kyle Roof

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either. — Ana Castillo

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. — Alfred P. Sloan

I wanted to know that if I ever got killed, I got killed doing something worthwhile. — Michael J. Massimino

To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone. — Bruce McLaren

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. — Derek Walcott

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. — Garth Brooks

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say. — Tyrone Power

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More Makes Quotes

Slight changes simply make a blur. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

Slight changes simply make a blur. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. - George Michael quote

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. — George Michael

I drink to make other people more interesting. - Ernest Hemingway quote

I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius quote

Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers quote

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. — Will Rogers

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston quote

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. — Zora Neale Hurston

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection - Drake quote

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection — Drake

Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. - John Muir quote

Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. - Charles Dickens quote

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. - Fannie Lou Hamer quote

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth. - Oprah Winfrey quote

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth. — Oprah Winfrey

I don`t make mistakes. I bury them. - The Undertaker quote

I don`t make mistakes. I bury them. — The Undertaker

Being willing is not enough. We must do. - Leonardo da Vinci quote

Being willing is not enough. We must do. — Leonardo da Vinci

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop quote

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. - Teresa of Avila quote

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. — Teresa of Avila

Every choice you make has an end result. - Zig Ziglar quote

Every choice you make has an end result. — Zig Ziglar

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. - Shimon Peres quote

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. — Shimon Peres

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. - Arnold Palmer quote

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. — Arnold Palmer

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

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

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex - Albert Einstein quote

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex — Albert Einstein

Tears are words the heart can't express - Gerard Way quote

Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank quote

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank

It is the mind that makes the body. - Sojourner Truth quote

It is the mind that makes the body. — Sojourner Truth

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