TOP INSPIRATIONAL LIFE QUOTES

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

|| Oscar Wilde

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.

|| Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

|| Tracy Kidder

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

|| Marian Edelman

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

|| Winston Churchill

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

|| Euripides

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

|| David Russell

May you live all the days of your life.

|| Jonathan Swift

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 drowned 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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

|| Helen Keller

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

|| Elizabeth Bibesco

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.

|| Albert Einstein

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

|| Henrik Ibsen

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

|| Teilhard Chardin

There's no next time. It's now or never.

|| Unknown

Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.

|| Unknown

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

|| Soren Kierkegaard

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

|| E. E. Cummings

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

|| Khalil Gibran

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...

|| Francis Bacon

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

|| Carl Sandburg

For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.

|| Unknown

Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.

|| Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

|| Thomas A. Edison

The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.

|| Unknown

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

|| Albert Einstein

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

In three words I can sum up what I have learned about life: It goes on.

|| Robert Frost

Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.

|| Maya Angelou

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

|| Albert Einstein

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

|| Alexander Woollcott

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

|| William James

Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.

|| Unknown

Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.

|| Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

|| Unknown

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

|| Christopher Columbus

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

|| Ayn Rand

We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

|| Joseph Campbell

Growth is the only evidence of life.

|| John Henry

75 Inspirational Mother's Day Quotes

Mother's Day is just a couple of days away. Here are 75 inspiring quotes that you'd like to share with friends and family members - especially that special person: Mother!

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary || Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever || Unknown

Men are what their mothers made them || Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness || Honore de Balzac

Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body || Elizabeth Stone

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie || Tenneva Jordan

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his || Oscar Wilde

All mothers are working mothers || Unknown

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t || Barbara Kingsolver

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love || Mildred B. Vermont

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child || Sophia Loren

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother || Abraham Lincoln

…the hand that rocks the cradle – Is the hand that rules the world || William Ross Wallace

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest || Spanish Proverb

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after || Peter de Vries

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest ||  Irish Proverb

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not || James Joyce

To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language || Arlene Benedict

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power || Maya Angelou

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement || Florida Scott-Maxwell

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly || Ambrose Bierce

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done || Unknown

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back || William D. Tammeus

Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too || Lionel Kauffman

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him || Helen Rowland

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found || Calvin Trillin

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much || Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you || Jill Bennett

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary || Dorothy Canfield Fisher

At work, you think of the children you have left at home.

At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent || Golda Meir

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever || Unknown

As is the mother, so is her daughter || Ezekiel 16:4

Men are what their mothers made them || Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers || Harriet Beecher Stowe

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves || Henry Ward Beecher

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness ||  de Balzac, author

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom || Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? || Nancy Thayer, author

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class || Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother || Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground || Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer

That best academy, a mother's knee || James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body || Elizabeth Stone

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother || Gregory Nunn

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie || Tenneva Jordan

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother || W. Somerset Maugham

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint || James Fenton

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement || Florida Scott-Maxwell

 

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter || Betty Rollin

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering || Elaine Heffner

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not || James Joyce

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health || Germaine Greer

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill || John Erskine

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his || Oscar Wilde

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother || Unknown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after || Peter De Vries

All mothers are working mothers || Unknown

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms || Oliver Wendell Holmes

Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand || Helen Hunt Jackson

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't || Barbara Kingsolver

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers || Jewish Proverb

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life || Abraham Lincoln

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love || Mildred B. Vermont

Nobody knows of the work it makes

To keep the home together.

Nobody knows of the steps it takes,

Nobody knows-but Mother.

|| Anonymous

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam || Henry Bickersteth

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries || T. DeWitt Talmage

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it || Chinese Proverb

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child || Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life || Anonymous

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest ||  Spanish Proverb

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own || Aristotle

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family || Lawrence Housman

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children || Sam Levenson

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age || William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry || Unknown