Quotes to Live By

Quotes to Live By

This is a collection of beautiful quotes to live by. Words can be saviors at times. They can show a person a new direction of hope. These amazing quotes will put life in perspective for you. You will find inspiration, humor and perhaps wisdom in these inspiring thoughts to live by.Sometimes you come across words that stir something inside you and make so much sense, like they were just meant for you. Those words come from the depth of experience and they are marked by simplicity and amazing clarity! In the depths of despair, sometimes such words of wisdom, give you hope and a new perspective of life! These quotes are portals to a philosophy of life. These inspirational quotes are the essence of wisdom and in my opinion, real education.

Life Quotes to Live By

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel but a comedy for those who think."

 -Horace Walpole

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

 -Napoleon Hill

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

 -Ernest Hemingway

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again."- Etienne de Grellet

 "Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!"

 - movie quote: "Rocky Balboa"

 "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

 -Maria Robinson

 "It's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."- Theodor Roosevelt

 "What the mind can conceive, it can achieve."-Napoleon Hill

"Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee." - Marcus Aurelius

 "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."-Steve Jobs

 "If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable."-Burt Munro

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy"-Martin Luther King Jr.

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

In three words I can sum up what I've learned about life: It goes on."-Robert Frost

 "It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." –Seneca

 "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein"

 "A temptation resisted is a true measure of character."-Pappilon

 "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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."- Mark Twain

Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" -Allison Gappa Bottke

 "Whoso must be a man, must be a non-conformist."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "I have not failed.I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."- Thomas Edison"

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it."-Toni Morrison

 "Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don't aim for it all, you'll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want"-Richard Koch

"Don't fight a fact, deal with it. "

 -Hugh Prather

 "It is not in the nature of man-nor of any living entity-to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lose it. Then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of their elders who tell them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one's mind; security, of abandoning one's values; practicality, of losing self-esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that the fire is not to be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality. But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

 -Ayn Rand

"Courage doesn't always roar.Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."-Mary Anne Radmacher

 "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."-Mahatma Gandhi

They can because they think they can."-Virgil

 "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility."-Kahlil Gibran

 "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crown less again shall be king."

 -J.R.R Tolkien

 "You don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now."- Joan Baez

 "The burned hand teaches best."-J.R.R.Tolkien

 ""All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.""-Walt Disney

 "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."-Richard Bach

 "Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do."- John Wooden

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."

 -Richard Bach

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." –Confucius

"We must be the change we want to see."- Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship Quotes to Live By

 "What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you.

 A friend? What is a friend?

 Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."

 -C. Raymond Beran

 "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."-Anais Nin

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

 -Aristotle

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

 -Walter Winchell

Don't walk in front of me because I may not follow.

 Don't walk behind me because I may not lead.

 Just walk beside me and be my friend."

 -Albert Camus

 "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is a last drop that makes it run over; so in series of kindnesses, there is a last one that makes the heart run over."

 -James Boswell

 "Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment."

 - Al Pacino (in "City Hall")

 Hope these amazing quotes have given you something to think about. They are pearls of wisdom.