25 Kickass Inspirational Quotes about Life

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Grim Cris

1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw

2. 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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain

3. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson

4. We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are – Talmud

5. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back – Arthur Rubinstein

6. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be – Marcel Pagnol

7. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu

8. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive – Howard Thurman

9. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like – Will Rogers

11. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been – Wayne Gretzky

12. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional – Anony-mouse

13. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Ross Wallace

14. Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE’! – Unknown

15. There are 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

16. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security – John Allen Paulos

17. You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours – F Perl

18. How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware. – Unknown

19. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing – Helen Keller

20. Life is not about kissing ass, it’s about kicking ass! – Unknown

21. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau

22. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself – Harvey Fierstein

23. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are – John Wooden

24. In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away – Shing Xiong

25. Breathe. It’s just a bad day. Not a bad life – Unknown

Albert Einstein about Women

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Grim Cris

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

Back to School Quotes

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Grim Cris

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown

There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~W.H. Auden

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author Unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher

It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne

You can get all A’s and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Moving On Quotes

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Grim Cris

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – the movie Forrest Gump

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – Anonymous

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. – Rabindranath Tagore

Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate. – Anonymous

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity & Life Quotes

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Grim Cris

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - Adam Lyons

Any intelligent fool can make things better, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift. That’s why this moment is called the present. Enjoy it. – Allan Johnson

If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – African proverb

Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. – Jim Rohn

The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants. – My Big Fat Greek Wedding

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – William Shakespeare

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Anonymous

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese proverb

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. - Unknown

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. – Johnny Depp

In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. – Laozi

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. – Laozi

Inspirational Quotes

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Grim Cris

The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. — George Kostanza

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside. — Albert Einstein (in a letter to Erwin Schrödinger, August 8, 1935)

Voting in a democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich. — Mencius Moldbug

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm. — Vince Lombardi (US football coach, 1913-1970)

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? — John Wooden

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spent the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain

I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. — David Livingstone

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus

I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work,–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself, not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. — Joseph Conrad

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau

Man is surely mad. He cannot make a worm; yet he makes Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne

Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. — John Maxwell

You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people think if you knew how seldom they do. — Minutes from the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1961

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck

Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. — Geffray Mynshul (Essays and Characters of a Prison, 1612)

Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray (Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1742)

There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good. — Stephen Colbert

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. — Victor Frankl

The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. — The Buddha

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. — Turkish Proverb

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei

Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Grim Cris

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

2. Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner

4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb

12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. —Unknown Author

17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

August Love Quotes

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Grim Cris

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller

“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown

“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo

“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown

“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay

Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ~ Lord Byron

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal

“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides

Fitness Motivational Quotes

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Grim Cris

1. Strive for progress, not perfection. -Unknown

2. You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. -Maya Angelou

3. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky

4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. -Unknown

5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -Ruth E. Renkl

6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi

7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman R. Augustine

8. I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. -George Burns

9. Energy and persistence conquer all things. -Benjamin Franklin

10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -Aesop

12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein

13. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz

14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryan

15. I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan

16. Fear is what stops you… courages is what keeps you going. -Unknown

17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. -Unknown

18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. -Steve Smith

19. Just do it.™ -Nike

20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. -Anonymous

21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain

22. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. -Anonymous

23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey

24. It’s never too late to become what you might have been. -George Elliot

25. Clear your mind of can’t. -Samuel Johnso

Creativity and Life Quotes

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Grim Cris

Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen keller

You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Two men looked out through prison bars… One saw mud, the other stars. – Unknown

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Picasso

Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. – Stephen Hawking

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not. – Isabel Allende

A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? – Unknown

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Don’t worry baby. There should be sunshine after rain and love after pain. – Unknown

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

Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don’t Matter and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind. – Dr. Seuss, originally by Bernard Baruch

For billions of years, since the outset of time, every single one of your ancestors survived, every single person on your mom and dads side successfully looked after and passed on to you life. – Unknown

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Laozi

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they’re doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. – XKCD 267

From a universal standpoint, there are always bigger and better things to worry about. – Albert Einstein

We know what we are, but not what we may be. – William Shakespeare

What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain

You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad.
Love what you’ve got, and remember what you had.
Learn to forgive, but never forget.
Learn from your mistakes, but never regret.
People change, things go wrong.
Just remember life goes on. – Unknown