The 100+ Best Quotes About Life That Will Actually Inspire You
Quotes About Life:
1.“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
2.“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous
changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates
sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow
naturally forward however they like.”
—Lao Tzu.
3.“He who has a why to live can bear
almost any how.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
4.“Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.”
—Josh Billings
5.“The best gift anyone can give, I believe,
is the gift of sharing themselves.”
—Oprah
6.“The big secret in life is that there is no
big secret. Whatever your goal, you can
get there if you’re willing to work.”
—Oprah
7.“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
8.Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep
your balance, you must keep moving.”
—Albert Einstein
9.“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
10.“You must not ever stop being whimsical.
And you must not, ever, give anyone else the
responsibility for your life.”
―Mary Oliver
11.“The greatest glory in living lies not in
never falling, but in rising every time we
fall.”
—Nelson Mandela
12.“Life is really simple, but we insist
on making it complicated.”
—Confucius
13.“Nothing in life is to be feared, only to
be understood. Now is the time to
understand more, so that we may fear less.”
—Marie Curie
inspirational quotes for motivation in life:
14.“You have succeeded in life when all
you want is only what you need.”
—Vernon Howard
15.“I went to the woods because I wished
to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau
16.“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
—Socrates
17.“We must be willing to let go of the life
we have planned, so as to have the life that
is waiting for us.”
—E. M. Forster
18“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to
the thinker what he thinks into it.”
—Ernest Holmes
19.“Life’s most persistent and urgent
question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
20.“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
21.“If life were predictable, it would cease
to be life and be without flavor.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
22.“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense
of living is joy enough.”
—Emily Dickinson
23.“All the art of living lies in a fine
mingling of letting go and holding on.”
—Havelock Ellis
24.“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared
to what?’”
—Sydney J. Harris
25.“To me, if life boils down to one thing,
it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.”
—Jerry Seinfeld
26.“The aim of life is to live, and to live
means to be aware, joyously,
drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
—Henry Miller
27.“If you love life, don’t waste time,
for time is what life is made up of.”
—Bruce
Famous Quotes About Life:
28.“The way to get started is to quit
talking and begin doing.”
—Walt Disney
29.“Life is what happens when you’re
busy making other plans.”
—John Lennon
30.“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to
a goal, not to people or things.”
—Albert Einstein
31.“Never let the fear of striking out keep
you from playing the game.”
—Babe Ruth
32. “Money and success don’t change
people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
—Will Smith
33.“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
24 “The whole secret of a successful life is to
find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
—Henry Ford
25.“Learn as if you will live forever, live like
you will die tomorrow.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
26.“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work.”
—Thomas Edison
Positive Quotes About Life:
27.“If you don’t like something, change it. If
you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
—Maya Angelou
28 “The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity
in every difficulty.”
—Winston Churchill
29.“Happiness is when what you think, what
you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
30“Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
—Lou Holtz
31.“Instead of worrying about what you
cannot control, shift your energy to what
you can create.”
―Roy T. Bennett
32.“You are where you are in life because of
what you believe is possible for yourself.”
—Oprah
33.“The best of times is now.”
—Oprah
34.“I have found that if you love life, life will
love you back.”
—Arthur Rubinstein
35.“You’re only here for a short visit.
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure
to smell the flowers along the way.”
—Walter Hagen
36.“There is only one corner of the universe
you can be certain of improving, and
that’s your own self.”
—Aldous Huxley
37.“Challenges are gifts that force us to
search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight
them. Just find a new way to stand.”
—Oprah
Nice quotes about life:
38.“When you undervalue what you do,
the world will undervalue who you are.”
—Oprah
39.“Success is not final; failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue that counts.”
—Winston S. Churchill
40.“It does not matter how slowly you go
as long as you do not stop.”
—Confucius
41.“Start where you are. Use what you have.
Do what you can.”
—Arthur Ashe
42.“Success is getting what you want,
happiness is wanting what you get.”
―W. P. Kinsella
43.“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
—Jim Rohn
44. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make
life better and build something.”
—Ashton Kutcher
45.Faith is risking it all on something unseen.
Most people say, “I’ll believe it when I see it,”
but the truth of the matter is that you’ll see
it when you believe it.
—David DeNotaris
46.“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always
to try just one more time.”
—Thomas A. Edison
47.“When something is important enough,
you do it even if the odds are not in your
favor.”
—Elon Musk
48.“Life is 10% what happens to you
and 90% how you react to it.”
—Charles R. Swindoll
49.“Do the difficult things while they are
easy and do the great things while they
are small. A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.”
—Lao Tzu
50“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
—H. G. Wells
51.“Change your life today. Don’t gamble
on the future, act now, without delay.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
52.“The only thing that’s keeping you
from getting what you want is the story
you keep telling yourself.”
—Tony Robbins
53.“The only way to do great work is
to love what you do.”
—Steve Jobs
54.“The best time to plant a tree was
20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
—Unknokwn
55.“The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
56.“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
57.“I can’t change the direction of the wind,
but I can adjust my sails to always reach my
destination.”
—Jimmy Dean
inspirational sayings about life:
58.“What you get by achieving your goals is
not as important as what you become by. achieving your goals.”
—Zig Ziglar
59.“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
—Wayne Gretzky
60.“I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product of my decisions.”
—Stephen Covey
61.“Whether you think you can or you think
you can’t, you’re right.”
—Henry Ford
62.“The most common way people give up
their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
—Alice Walker
63.“The best revenge is massive success.”
—Frank Sinatra
64.“Your time is limited, don’t waste it
living someone else’s life.”
—Steve Jobs
65.“I have learned over the years that when
one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
—Rosa Parks
66.“The only person you are destined to
become is the person you decide to be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
67.“What lies behind us and what
lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies
within us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
68.“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
—Abraham Lincoln
69.“You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.”
—C.S. Lewis
70.“The mind is everything. What you think
you become.”
—Buddha
71.“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
—Socrates
72.“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.”
—Steve Jobs
73.“The only person you should try to be
better than is the person you were yesterday.”
—Unknown
74.“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on
the other side of fear.”
—George Addair
75.“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
—Albert Einstein
76.“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot
77.“I was smart enough to go through any
door that opened.”
—Joan Rivers
78.“You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
79.“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone,
person to person.”
—Mother Teresa
80.“The most difficult thing is the decision to
act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
—Amelia Earhart
81.“You can never leave footprints that last
if you are always walking on tiptoe.”
—Leymah Gbowee
82.“The question isn’t who’s going to let me;
it’s who is going to stop me.”
—Ayn Rand
83.“Step out of the history that is holding
you back. Step into the new story you
are willing to create.”
—Oprah Winfrey
84.“If you don’t like the road you’re
walking, start paving another one.”
—Dolly Parton
85.“I choose to make the rest of my life the best
of my life.”
—Louise Hay
Deep Quotes About Life:
86.“The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow. The nature
of life is to change. The challenge of life is
to overcome. The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of like is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life
is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.”
—William Arthur Ward
87.“The average men consume.
The wise create.”
—Maxime Lagacé
88.“Take time like the river that never
grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry,
no rush.”
—Rumi
89.Whenever you find yourself on the side of
the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
—Mark Twain
90.“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
—Publilius Syrus
91.“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a
personal calling that’s as unique as a
fingerprint—and that the best way to
succeed is to discover what you love and
then find a way to offer it to others in
the form of service, working hard, and
also allowing the energy of the universe
to lead you.”
—Oprah
92.“Battle not with monsters, lest you
become one and if you gaze into the ab
yss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
93.“Question everything. Learn something.
Answer nothing.”
—Euripides
94."What we achieve inwardly will change
outer reality."
— Plutarch
95. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment
of my life, and I've never let it keep me
from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
.— George O'Keeffe
96."The most authentic thing about us is
our capacity to create, to overcome, to
endure, to transform, to love and be greater. than our suffering."
— Ben Okri
97. "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
— Michael Altshuler
98."Change the world by being yourself."
— Amy Poehler
99 "You get what you give."
— Jennifer Lopez
100."It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
— Confucius
