Inspirational Quotes About Life

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. – Harvey Fierstein

Short Inspirational Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. – Gerard Way

It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. —Rocky Balboa, Rocky

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience. —Unknown

Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you’ve asked for. —Unknown

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. —T. Roosevelt

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. —Roald Dahl

The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” ―Oprah Winfrey

“I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned.” ―Michael J. Fox

“If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger―something that matters.” ―Blake Mycoskie

“The self is made, not given.” ―Barbara Myerhoff

“Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” ―Benjamin Disraeli

“Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.” ―Bryant H. McGill

Inspirational Quotes About Life

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” ―Margaret Atwood

“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.” ―John C. Maxwell

“I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.” ―Steven Pinker

Inspirational Quotes

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” ―Washington Irving

“No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.” ―Denis Waitley
“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal.” ―Mary Kay Ash

“When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist.” ―Wayne Dyer

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
– Dennis P. Kimbro

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”
– Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
– William James

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.”
– Will Rogers

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
– Sydney Harris

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
– Zig Ziglar

Inspirational Quotes About Life

“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu

“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.”
– English Proverb

“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
– Winston Churchill

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
– John F. Kennedy

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
– Jack Canfield

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.”
– Unknown

“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”
– William Shakespeare

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”
– Sir Claus Moser

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
– Lao Tzu

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden

“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”
– Joe Clark

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”
– Larry Winget

“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.”
– Unknown

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“It is not enough to aim, you must hit.”
– Italian Proverb

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
– Babe Ruth

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”
– Prescott

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
– Dudley Field Malone

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.”
– Albert Einstein

“We become what we think about.”
– Earl Nightingale

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
– Buddha

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown

It will never matter what others thing of you. It will ALWAYS matter what YOU think of you. – Fearless Soul

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

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

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

There is no elevator to success — you have to take the stairs. —Anonymous

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs / Rob Siltanen

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. – Dr. Henry Link

My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca

I love those who can smile in trouble… Leonardo da Vinci

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Click to tweet

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey Click to tweet

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Susan Sontag

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King Click to tweet

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski