Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other, it is our own.
- Mind is the infallible weaver of destiny; thought is the thread, good and evil deeds are the warp and woof, and the web, woven upon the loom of life, is character.
- Most of us live our lives by accident – we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
- Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
- My life is my message.Mahatma GandhiSourced
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.
- My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had.Edwin H. LandSourced
- No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty.
- No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
- No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.
- No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
- Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
- Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
- Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.Bishop George HorneSourced
- One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.
- One of the greatest revelations of my life is: I can choose my thoughts and think things on purpose. In other words, I don’t have to just think about whatever falls into my mind
- Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Only those live who do good.
- Order is heaven's first law.
- Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.
- Our best light must be made life, and our best thought action.
- Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on earth, but bringing forth their harvest in eternity.
- Our life is result of our choices.
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
- Own your morning. Elevate your life.
- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.
- Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
- Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
- Quality questions create a quality life.
- Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.
- Remember kids are living life, not simply preparing for it.
- Remember, the main business of life is not to do, but to become; an action itself has its finest and most enduring fruit in character.
- Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.