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1. "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." --Anonymous
2. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." --John Wooden
3. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." --Anonymous
4. "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn
5. "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." --Anonymous
6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the
brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to success." --Swami Vivekananda
7. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." --Walt Disney
8. "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." --
Anonymous
9. "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." --Anonymous
10. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
11. "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." --Proverb
12. "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy." --Anonymous
13. "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to
reach them." --Vaibhav Shah
14. "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." --Chris Grosser
15. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." --Albert
Einstein
16. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor
Roosevelt
17. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas A. Edison
18. "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start
charging for it." --Kim Garst
19. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -
-David Brinkley
20. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
21. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." --
Henry Ford
22. "If you're going through hell keep going." --Winston Churchill
23. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." --
Anonymous
24. "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." --Anonymous
25. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." --Oscar Wilde
26. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." --Anonymous
27. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --Bruce Feirstein
28. "When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you." --Lolly
Daskal
29. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." --John D. Rockefeller
30. "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous
31. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit
down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein
33. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Anonymous
34. "Do one thing every day that scares you." --Anonymous
35. "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable." --Anonymous
36. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --Lolly Daskal
37. "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." --Anonymous
38. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." --Anonymous
39. "Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." --Anonymous
40. "You can do anything, but not everything. --Anonymous
41. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." --Steve Jobs
42. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world:
those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." --Ray Goforth
43. "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in
your life." --A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
44. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson
45. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill
46. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." --Robert Collier
47. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-thanexcellent work." --Thomas J. Watson
48. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak
49. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." --
Philippos
50. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absense of fear." --Mark Twain
51. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo Picasso
52. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we
recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar
53. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl
Nightingale
54. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon
55. "The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make
the world a better place." --Guy Kawasaki
56. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most
important thing." --Martha Stewart
57. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." --Anonymous
58. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." --Colin R. Davis
59. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader
60. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --Maya Angelou
61. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." --Bill Gates
62. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." --Henry Kravis
63. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which
you first find yourself." --Mark Caine
64. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and
the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a
downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." --Tony Robbins
65. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and
less important whether I am afraid." --Audre Lorde
66. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark
Twain
67. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee
68. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain
69. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to
success." --Dale Carnegie
70. "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." --Jim Rohn
71. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --Gurbaksh
Chahal
72. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki
73. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start
focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eker
74. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you
have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your
gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the
difference in my life." --Steve Jobs
75. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish
you were better." --Jim Rohn
76. "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and
neighbors." --Napoleon Hill
77. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to
do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." --Denis Waitley
78. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it
or stand against it." --Jane Smiley
79. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second
time." --George Bernard Shaw
80. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived
the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman
81. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." --Michael Jordan
82. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Ryun
83. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." --Dale Carnegie
84. "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined
soul." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
85. "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really
matter." --Francis Chan
86. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with
satisfaction." --George Lorimer
87. "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones
you like." --Mike Gafka
88. "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing
seeds that benefit others." --John C. Maxwell
89. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --Wayne
Dyer
90. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." --
Anatole France
91. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on
trying when there seemed to be no help at all." --Dale Carnegie
92. "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your
goals." --Booker T. Washington
93. "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." --Theodore
N. Vail
94. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville
95. "Fortune sides with him who dares." --Virgil
96. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." --Washington
Irving
97. "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." --Truman Capote
98. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --John R. Wooden
99. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher
100. "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the
determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in
life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." --Vince Lombardi

150 Life Quotes — Inspiring the Happy, Good and Funny in Life
Enjoy some short, beautiful and meaningful quotes about life.

1. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." — Dalai Lama

2. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." — John Lennon

3. "Get busy living or get busy dying." — Stephen King

4. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West

5. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."– Thomas A. Edison

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6. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."– Albert Einstein

7. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."– Babe Ruth

8. "Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there." — Will Smith

9. "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking." – Steve Jobs

Life Quotes from Seneca
10. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

13. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

14. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

Life Quotes
15. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)

16. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

18. "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates

19. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey

Life quote Dolly Parton

20. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." —Dolly Parton

21. "Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can." — Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley quote)

22. "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." — Ashton Kutcher

23. "Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off." — Kevin Hart

24. "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." — Kobe Bryant

25. "I like criticism. It makes you strong." — LeBron James

26. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." ― George Clooney

27. "Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this." — Celine Dion

28. "Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty." — John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)

29. "Live for each second without hesitation." — Elton John

30. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein

31. "Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated." — Confucius

32. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." — Helen Keller

33. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." — Steve Jobs

34. "My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)

35. "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."— Lao-Tze

36. "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another." — Helen Keller

37. "The healthiest response to life is joy." — Deepak Chopra

38. "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." — Lillian Dickson

39. "The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love." — Wordsworth

40. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ― Robert Frost

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41. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

42. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

43. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

44. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

45. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe

46. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

47. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

48. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

49. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

50. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

52. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses

53. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

54. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." — Kevin Kruse

55. "I've missed more than 9000 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

56. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." – Babe Ruth

57. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain

58. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin

59. "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." – John Lennon

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60. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown

Quote About Life
61. "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." —Neil Armstrong

62. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." —Mahatma Gandhi

63. "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person." —Bill Clinton

64. "Life is short, and it is here to be lived." —Kate Winslet

65. "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." —Frank Lloyd Wright

66. "Every moment is a fresh beginning." —T.S. Eliot

67. "When you cease to dream you cease to live." —Malcolm Forbes

68. "If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." —Morris West

69. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." —Dr. Seuss

70. "If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people." —Leonardo DiCaprio

71. "We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness." —Hillary Clinton

72. "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." —Mary Kay Ash

73. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." —J. K. Rowling

74. "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve." —Jeff Bezos

75. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." — Abraham Lincoln

76. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." —Michael Jordan

77. "Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow." —Jay-Z

78. "There are no mistakes, only opportunities." —Tina Fey

79. "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." —Warren Buffett

80. "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." —Audrey Hepburn

81. "Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." —Ellen DeGeneres

82. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." —Mahatma Gandhi

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

84. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …” – Steve Jobs

85. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

86. "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith

87. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."– Buddha

88. "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." – Sholom Aleichem

89. "If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of." – Bruce Lee

90. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

91. "Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway." — Anonymous

92. "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." – Omar Khayyam

93. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

94. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill

95. “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”-Socrates

96. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

97. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”— Seneca

98. “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

99. “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius

100. "There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that." — Derek Jeter

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Quotes About Life
101. "Don't be afraid to fail. It's not the end of the world, and in many ways, it's the first step toward learning something and getting better at it." — Jon Hamm

102. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

103. "I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore." – Bradley Cooper

104. “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney

105. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda

106. “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone

107. “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” – Chuck Norris (related: 101 Chuck Norris Jokes)

108. “Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante

109. “I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.” – Brad Pitt

110. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

111. “Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

112. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." — Swami Vivekananda

113. "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying." — Shawshank Redemption

114. "When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho

115. "There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth." — Rick Warren

116. "You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore." — Elvis Presley

117. "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." — Anne Frank

118. "You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence." — Joel Osteen

119. "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." — Jimmy Carter

120. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." — Seneca

121. "Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." — Jennifer Aniston

122. "Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby." — George Bernard Shaw

123. "Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself." — Yoda (Star Wars Quotes)

124. "Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." — Buddha

125. "Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully." — Albert Camus

126. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." — Oprah Winfrey

127. "Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person." — Derek Jeter

128. "Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority." —Vince Lombardi

129. "As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give." — David DeNotaris

130. "There are no regrets in life, just lessons." — Jennifer Aniston

131. "I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning." — John McLeod

132. "Find people who will make you better." — Michelle Obama

133. "As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in." — Helen Keller

134. "Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race." — Paulo Braga

135. "You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.” — Anonymous

136. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.” – T.D. Jakes

137. “You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.” — Anonymous

138. “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.” – Maya Angelou

139. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy

140. “You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Kim Kiyosaki

141. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default." — Anonymous

142. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

143. “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” – Doctor Who

144. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

145. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” – Joan Rivers

146. “There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.” – Stephen Curry

147. “Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry (Football Quotes)

148. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas

149. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

150. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

Inspirational Quotes About Success

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll

“Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

"Success is a journey not a destination." — Ben Sweetland

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar

"It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." — W. Clement Stone

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill

“Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” — Mallika Tripathi

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." — Milton Berle

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Inspiring Quotes About Loving Yourself

“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” — Nina Simone

“Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence.” — Gary Zukav

“Talk to yourself like someone you love.” — Brené Brown

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into place." — Lucille Ball

“If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” — Gabrielle Union

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings

“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison

"By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." — Edwin Elliot

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde

“I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.” — Kerry Washington

“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — Bell Hooks

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia

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Happy Inspirational Quotes

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." — Judy Garland

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” — George Sand

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri J.M. Nouwen

"Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life." — Omar Khayyam

"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." — Carlos Santana

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn

"If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." — Albert Schweitzer

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — J.M. Barrie

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Inspirational Quotes About Change

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

“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 which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine." — Mario Fernández

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Ghandi

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Inspirational Quotes for Courage

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." — J.M. Barrie

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." — Mandy Hale

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman

“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” — Walter Anderson

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron

Inspirational Quotes About Friendship and Love

"Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind." — Dodinsky

“True friendship is like a rose. We don’t realize its beauty until it fades.” — Evelyn Loeb

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa

“When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Watterson

"Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." — Maya Angelou

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho

“Give light and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker

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Inspiring Quotes About Being Yourself

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

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin

"Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others think.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” — Coco Chanel

“You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” — Viola Davis

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe

“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” — Maggie Kuhn

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are." — Stephanie Lahart

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Short Motivational Quotes for Life

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” — Trivia Cunningham

“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hafez

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller

“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." — Buddha

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” — Duke Ellington

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“Fall 7 times, stand up 8.” — Japanese Proverb

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost

Inspiring Quotes from Celebrities

“Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” — Lady Gaga

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” — Kate Winslet

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” — Geena Davis

“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” — Brooke Shields

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The only way to have a life is to commit it to like crazy.” — Angelina Jolie

“Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you.” — Queen Latifah

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you." — Jon Bon Jovi

“I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.” — Simone Biles

“I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” — Zendaya

“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.” — Oprah Winfrey

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs

Funny Inspirational Quotes

“A person without regrets is a nincompoop.” — Mia Farrow

“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” — Steven Wright

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now, I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” — Harper Lee

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden

“It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon.” — Kermit the Frog

“Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” — Ellen Degeneres

“The sky isn’t the limit — the sky has no limit.” — Sarah Barker

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." — Bil Keane

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

Inspirational Quotes about Life

These quotes about life will motivate you, inspire you, and might make you tear up a bit, too.

Between big life decisions, heartbreaks, tragedies, and even simple bad days when nothing seems to go right, it's easy to get down on your outlook on life. That's where these moving life quotes come in. When you (or a family member or friend) need a pick-me-up, these quotes about life will turn your day around. From some of our favorite famous authors, musicians, and public figures, these life quotes are beyond motivating.

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These uplifting messages aren't reserved for just the not-so-good days, though! If you're about to make a big life change or know a friend who's about to, these life quotes are perfectly inspiring for any situation. Write one of these inspirational quotes on a sticky note and put it somewhere you know it will be seen. Soon, you'll be spreading inspiration all around. Plus, we all know a good quote makes an amazing Instagram caption (admit it). Whatever situation you're in, these quotes about life will motivate you, inspire you, and we'll be honest, might make you tear up a bit.

Self-Care and Self-Worth

SOUTHERN LIVING

"I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." — Rosa Parks
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." — Oscar Wilde
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."— Etty Hillesum
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." — Anne Lamott
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." — Bell Hooks
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." — Unknown
"Self-care is how you take your power back." — Lalah Delia
"Being happy never goes out of style." — Lilly Pulitzer

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Positive Thinking

SOUTHERN LIVING

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." — Maya Angelou
"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place." — Unknown
“A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” — Naomi Judd
“Even miracles take a little time.” — The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella
"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." — Dolly Parton
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” — Dolly Parton

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Success

Southern Living.

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." — Reba McEntire
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." — Mark Twain
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people." — Barbara Bush
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” — Jon Bon Jovi
“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” — Michelle Obama
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." — Nelson Mandela
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." — Truman Capote
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." — Mark Twain
"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome." — Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

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Encouraging Quotes

SOUTHERN LIVING

"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." — Ann Richards
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love." — Johnny Cash
"I don't go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head." — Princess Diana
"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." — Eudora Welty
"The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." — Jackie Robinson
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." — Dolly Parton
"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring." — Lilly Pulitzer
"If I'd have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I'd be really tired." — Willie Nelson
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." — Les Brown
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." — Mark Twain
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson
"The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day." — Julia Roberts
"Now it's the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that's what life is all about." — Joanna Gaines

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Courage and Strength

Southern Living.

"Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass." — Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." ― Mary Anne Radmacher
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." ― J.R.R. Tolkien
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ― John Wayne
"Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody." ― Justin Cronin
"It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart." ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." — Walt Disney
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." — Walt Disney
"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." — Jack Canfield
"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting." — Walt Disney
"Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?" — Unknown
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." — Marcus Aurelius
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
"All serious daring starts from within." — Eudora Welty
"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." — Dolly Parton
"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow." — Ralph Ellison
"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground." — Rosa Parks
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." — William Faulkner

Quotes About Living

SOUTHERN LIVING

"Each person must live their life as a model for others." — Rosa Parks
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." — Helen Keller
"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." — Maya Angelou
"Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. That's the exciting part." — Emeril Lagasse
"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me." — Loretta Lynn
"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"You're going to go through tough times—that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events." — Joel Osteen
"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." — Beyoncé Knowles
"You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do." — Barbara Bush
"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." — Billy Graham
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." — Johnny Cash
"You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut." — Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." — Eudora Welty
"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." — Maya Angelou
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon." — Jimmy Carter
"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too." — Anonymous
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing." — Helen Keller

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