I have been talking a lot about Early Retirement and tried my best to put my thoughts into words. I have one last thing left to conclude my attempt – to share a few encouraging, motivational quotes to keep you going. Or to get you going – wherever in life you are right now. These sayings have been left to us by wise men and women of the past and bear a great deal of wisdom. Read through them each time you are feeling blue or discouraged. There is nothing more encouraging than well said quote that hits just the right spot. Without further ado, this is the collection of motivational quotes to keep you going that I come back to often myself:
I’ve tried my best to transform my thoughts into words but found myself struggling each time. Everything makes perfect sense in my head, but trying to put it in coherent sentences was challenging. More often than not I felt like I’m not doing my thoughts a justice by failing to properly express my feelings, but I’ve tried never the less. If just one person finds encouragement, if just one person finds inspirations, if just one person changes their life for the better as a result of these words, then it was all worth it. I would like to start with my favorite quote of all. It’s the quote by Jonathan Swift who summed everything I’ve been trying to say in just nine words: “May you live all the days of your life.”
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Zig Ziglar
Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did”?
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Les Brown
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Martin Luther King
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Richard M. DeVos
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Ivy Baker
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Barbara Sher
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do – can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Vincent Van Gogh
Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Buddha
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Denis Waitley
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by William Jennings Bryan
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.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was Joy./ I woke and saw that life was Duty./ I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Billy Graham
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Alexander Woollcott
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Unknown Author
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Kevin Welch
There’ll be two dates on your tombstone/ And all your friends will read ’em/ But all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em…
Inspirational and Motivational Quote from Psalms
This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Roman
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Leo Buscaglia
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Lieh Tzu
Living a life without limits is the highest state of existence.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Friedrich Schlegel
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Anna Robertson Brown
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have. The question is: what shall we do with it?
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Henry James
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Diane Ackerman
I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Lewis Grizzard
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Dale Carnegie
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Harold Whitman
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by B. C. Forbes
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Eric Butterworth
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Richard L. Evans
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Jim Rohn
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Robertson Davies
If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by T. S. Eliot
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Mark Houlahan
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Ovid
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Marcia Wieder
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart’s desires.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Michael Cibenko
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One should count each day a separate life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Joan Borysenko
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Marilyn vos Savant
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Cicero
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Horace Mann
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Arnold H. Glasgow
Make your life a mission – not an intermission.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Somerset Maugham
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Walt Whitman
Oh, while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by William Lloyd George
He’s no failure. He’s not dead yet.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Jim Valvano
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Leland Bartlett
I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Proverb
You can’t take it with you when you go.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Wayne Dyer
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Zig Ziglar
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Oprah Winfrey
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning – one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren’t things.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Charles A Beard
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Stedman Graham
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Mother Teresa
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Coretta Scott King
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Inspirational and Motivational Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Hope you have enjoyed my collection of motivational quotes to keep you going. Wise men and women of the past and present had the way with words, something I do not and left us these precious gems as guidance. Come back for more inspiration should you find yourself stranded in doubt. Here’s to an abundant and enjoyable life.