Motivational Words – Life

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte


Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey


You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money, love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like no one is watching. It’s gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark


The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde


Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle


Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero


The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt


Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller


Life’s more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang


As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca


Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hansen, Grace


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert


Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sachs, A.


Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi, Hsieh


Life without love is a shadow of things that might be.
Unknown


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
VanDyke, Henry


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


Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David O. McKay


Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyere


Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
John Homer Miller


Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach