Inspirational Life Quotes

Inspirational life quotes that inspire your day, are found here. I love the feeling that words can lift up a mood, or motivate one in a new direction.

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You will find inspiring quotes on this page, that offer new thought and insight into who you are, and the world that we live in.

Please enjoy these inspirational life quotes:

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

--Author Unknown

There is a silence, born of love, which expresses everything.
--Count Vittorio Alfieri

Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny.
--Author Unknown

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
--Joseph Hall

Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things.
--R. Smith

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quickly, may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humour with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.
--Washington Irving

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, and a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
--Coleridge

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
--Seneca

Life is made up, not of great sacrefices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
--Sir Humphry Davy

Age appeare to be best in four things--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
--Bacon

Remember this, and also be persuaded of its truth-the future is not in the hands of fate, but in ourselves.
--Jules Jusserand

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
--Goethe

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
--Plutarch

Man who man would be, must rule the empire by himself.
--Shelly

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
--Syrus

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
--Maeterlinck

I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now: let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
--De Grellet

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
--Jonson

No one really knows happiness who has not suffered, and the redeemed are happier than the elect.
--Amiel

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
--Hawthorne

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
--Cowper

What we must do, let us love to do. Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful. Beauty is God's handwritting.
--Kingsley

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
--Lord Chesterfield

A free mind is a great thing no doubt, but loftiness of heart, belief in goodness, capacity for enthusiasm and devotion, the thirst after perfection and holiness, are greater still.
--Amiel