81 Inspiring Quotes About Life That Will Motivate You
Here are a few quotes about life that will encourage you to live your best life, no matter the situation.
Life is a mystery, a journey that is travelled without a clear destination. And in the midst of figuring out this thing called life, it crushes us, breaks us and slowly molds us again into the people we grow up to become.
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In that case, life is beautiful and it is meant to be enjoyed and every moment, no matter how hard it gets, is to be treasured.
Author’s Pick
- “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” Hans Christina Andersen
Inspiring Life Quotes
2. “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor
3. “My dark days made me strong, or maybe I was strong they made me prove it.” Emerly Lord
4. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not people or things.” Albert Einstein
5. “Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you like to be.” Celestine Chua
6. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
7. “Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.” Roy T. Bennett
8. “We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.” Sarah McLachlan
9. “The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change everything in your life.” Hal Elrod
10. “I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.” Sylvia Plath
11. “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled” Barack Obama
Positive Life Quotes
12. “Without rain nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life.” Unknown
13. “We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” Tony Robbins
14. “A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle.” Jeff Olson
15. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.” Wayne Dyer
16. “You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening and live live like it’s heaven on earth.” William W. Purkey
17. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams
18. “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.” Robert H. Schuller
19. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” Roy T. Bennett
20. “Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.” Eckhart Tolle
21. “Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.” Robert Greene
Funny Life Quotes
22. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do Nothing everyday.” A.A Milne
23. “When I hear someone sigh ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask ‘compared to what’.” Unknown
24. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” Lily Tomlin
25. ” ‘Would you rather be feared or loved?’ Easy, Both. I want people to be afraid oh how much I love them.” Michael Scott
26. “Lead us into temptation!! Just tell us where it is, we will find it.” Sam Levenson
27. “Thou shall not judge too harshly because thou has messed up in the past also.” Karen Salmansohn
28. “To succeed in life, you will need three bones. A wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” Reba McEntire
29. “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” Bill Watterson
30. “When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.” Jane Wagner
31. “I’ll eat a bowl of water with a fork before I give a damn about your opinion of me.” Unknown
Top Quotes About Life
32. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” C. Joy Bell C
33. “Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.” Confucius
34. “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
35. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “The real test is not whether you will avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. whether you choose to persevere.” Barack Obama
37. “sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you’re going to do next!” Sophie Kinsella
38. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
39. “Life is a sequence of chain. Hold on to it and you will reach your desire destination.” Eddie M Reyes
40. “My mission in life is not to merely survive, but to thrive. And to do so with with some passion, compassion, humor and style.” Maya Angelou
41. “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.” Henry Miller
Deep Quotes
42. “A thousand words will not leave so much an impression as one good deed.” Henrick Isben
43. “Behind every strong person, there is a story that gave them no choice.” Unknown
44. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Soren Kierkegaard
45. “The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” Unknown
46. “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” Heath L. Buck master
47. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” Steve Maraboli
48. “How would your life be different if You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day you speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.” Steve Maraboli
49. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn
50. “Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
51. “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
Meaningful Life Quotes
52. “We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.” Kilroy J. Oldster
53. “Purpose gives meaning to action in the same way that structure gives meaning to data.” David Amerland
54. “If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
55. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” Roy T. Bennett
56. “Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.” Sunday Adelaja
47. “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” PiYann Martel
58. “Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.” Les Brown
59. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.” Ann Hood
60. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” Dalai Lama
61. “Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.” Brittany Murphy
Unique Life Quotes
62. “What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. And a lot of the time, it’s what makes you great.” Emma Stone
63. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead
64. The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.” Jane Fonda
65. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
66. “I don’t go by the rule book, I lead from the heart, not the head.” Princess Diana
67. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Eleanor Roosevelt
68. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
69. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Neil Armstrong
70. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
71. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” Dolly Parton
Short Life Quotes
72. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” Mark Twain
73. “Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” Tyga
74. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
75. “Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill
76. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” Edwin Markham
77. “Forgive Quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably and, never regret anything that made you smile.” Audrey Hepburn
78. “Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” Kendrick Lamar
79. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” Joe Girard
80. “Be happy for this moment in your life.” omar Khayyam
81. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” Oprah Winfrey
