Inspirational Quotes

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.
~William James

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
~Virginia Woolf

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
~Alexis

Life itself is the proper binge.
~Julia Child

Life has got to be lived — that’s all there is to it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.
~Horace

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
~William Shakespeare

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther King

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
~William Goldman

Life is just one damned thing after another.
~ Elbert Hubbard

A good life is a main argument.
~ Ben Jonson

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
~George Herbert

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
~Jules Renard

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
~Dalai Lama

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
~Thomas Carlyle

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is nothing without friendship.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
~Michael Wickett

The world’s a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.”
~Sir Francis Bacon

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
~Albert Einstein

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
~Hypocrites

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~William Shakespeare

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
~Elbert Hubbard

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
~Buddha

Do you always see an opportunity after it has Passed. Do you always feel unlucky, that opportunity never knocks your door. If you do, you are not alone, but the think is, everybody gets the same opportunity as everyone else. Of course there are those who inherited Millions or won a Jackpot, but they are one in a Million. For the rest of the Billions of us, we have to learn to seize the opportunity and if they knock at our Doors, we must go ahead and seize it ourselves.

Here some some Motivational Quotes on Opportunity which I hope you will find inspiring. These opportunity quotes have inspired me all my life.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
~Thomas A. Edison

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
~Ann Landers

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It’s the man who waits for his ship to come in who’s always missing the boat.
~Anonymous

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
~Napoleon Hill

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
~George Eliot

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
~Maxwell Maltz

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
~George Matthew Adams

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
~Sally Koch

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
~Dale Carnegie

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
~Alexi Sayle

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.
~Chinese Proverb

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
~Anthony Robbins

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
~Roy D. Chapin Jr.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
~Abraham Cowley

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
~Henry Ford

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~George Bernard Shaw

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
~Yiddish proverb

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
~Cotton Mather

It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
~Whitney, Young Jr.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
~Peter Drucker

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
~John James Ingalls

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
~Cotton Mather

This is one of the most inspiring humility quotes

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
~Mahatma Gandhi

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom
~Bible

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
~Margaret Mead

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
~Charles de Montesquieu

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
~Saint Augustine

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
~Thomas More

True humility: The basis of the Christian system, is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.”
~ Edmund Burke

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~William Penn

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
~William Gurnall

Humility is pride in God
~Austin O’Malley

The grace which makes every other grace amiable.
~ Alfred Mercier

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
~Harold Warner

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
~Rabindranath Tagore

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
~John Ruskin

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
~William Temple

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
~George Arliss

It’s all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
~Debra Wilson

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
~ La Rochefoucauld

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Humility makes great men twice honorable
~Benjamin Franklin

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Life is a long lesson in humility.
~James M. Barrie

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
~ Ezra Taft Benson

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
~Charles H. Spurgeon

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it
~Mignon McLaughlin

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
~ Rick Warren

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
~Barry Switzer

In a humble state, you learn better. I can’t find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there’s that.
~ John Dooner