250+ Inspirational Quotes About Life

Finding motivation and inspiration to power through life’s daily obstacles can be tough. It’s stress in your career, relationship problems or everyday hassles, these can quickly take a toll on your mental health. Pausing for a moment to look for inspiration, both within your own circle of friends and family and the world at large, can help you stay positive.

Our list of the very best inspirational quotes can help; these short, powerful and often funny metaphors, written excerpts and snippets of historical speeches can provide a much-needed spark of motivation.

Deep Motivational Quotes

• “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” —Albert Einstein
• “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” —Mark Twain
• “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
• “It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest.” —Walter Anderson
• “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.” —Diane McLaren
• “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” —Laird Hamilton
• “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent Van Gogh
• “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” —Maria Edgeworth
• “Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” —Unknown
• “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Raymond Joseph Teller
• “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bryant
• “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
• “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” —Unknown

Life Quotes About the Future

• “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” —Robert Brault
• “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” —Leonard I. Sweet
• “Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” —Nicole Kidman
• “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
• “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker
• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
• “Life is a long lesson in humility.” —James M. Barrie
• “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
• “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill
• “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” —Nikki Giovanni
• “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu
• “Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?” —Max Levchin
• “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
• “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” —Les Brown
• “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou
• “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
• “We become what we think about most of the time.” —Earl Nightingale
• “Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
• “Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” —Helen Keller
• “I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” —Charles Dickens
• “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” —Charles Kettering
• “Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.” —John Lennon
• “Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” —Khalil Gibran
• “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” —John Guare

Motivational Quotes About Success

• “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
• “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
• “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis
• “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
• “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” —Calvin Coolidge
• “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers
• “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden
• “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
• “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”―W. P. Kinsella

SpongeBob Quotes About Life

• “I’m ready!” – SpongeBob
• “The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time.” – SpongeBob
• “Is mayonnaise an instrument?” – Patrick
• “You don’t need a license to drive a sandwich.” – SpongeBob
• “Home is where you’re surrounded by other critters that care about you.” – Sandy
• “If I were to die right now, I’d be happy.” – SpongeBob
• “Firmly grasp it!” – Patrick
• “It’s not about winning, it’s about fun!” – SpongeBob
• “Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems.” – Patrick
• “You never really know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – SpongeBob
• “Wake me up when I care.” – Squidward
• “Ravioli, ravioli, give me the formuoli!” – SpongeBob
• “The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.” – Patrick
• “Don’t worry, tomorrow will be yesterday.” – SpongeBob
• “You can’t fool me—I listen to public radio!” – Squidward

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. 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 Messages

• “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
• “When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, “What are you gonna do about it?” I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.” — Beyoncé Knowles
• “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Mine
• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth.” — Gabrielle Bernstein
• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive Thinking Quotes

• “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. Mine
• “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
• “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
• “It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” — Betty White
• “Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.” — Ann Ruth Schabacker
• “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” — Jim Thompson

Quotes About Success

• “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
• “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”— Thomas A. Edison
• “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

Encouraging Quotes

• “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

Quotes On Courage and Strength

• “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
• “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth

Life Quotes for Men

• “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
• “Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
• “A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Niki Lauda
• “The first step to being a man is to be honest with yourself.” – Anonymous
• “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
• “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying small stones.” – Confucius
• “Tough times don’t last. Tough men do.” – Robert H. Schuller
• “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
• “A real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress.” – Thomas Paine
• “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
• “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
• “Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.” – Anonymous
• “Be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak.” – Jim Rohn

Michelle Obama Quotes

• “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
• “Choose people who lift you up.”
• “When they go low, we go high.”
• “You can’t make decisions based on fear.”
• “Your story is what you have, what you will always have. Own it.”
• “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”
• “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage.”
• “The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.”
• “Just do what works for you.”
• “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our to-do list.”
• “Am I good enough? Yes, I am.”
• “Failure is an important part of your growth.”
• “Be focused. Be determined.”
• “Empower yourself with a good education.”
• “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down.”

George Washington Quotes

• “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
• “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
• “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
• “Discipline is the soul of an army.”
• “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
• “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
• “It is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible.”
• “Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
• “Truth will ultimately prevail where pains are taken to bring it to light.”
• “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
• “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation.”
• “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”
• “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
• “99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
• “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.”

Philosophical Quotes About Life

• “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
• “Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.” – Kant
• “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Nietzsche
• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Man is condemned to be free.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Know yourself.” – Socrates
• “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
• “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
• “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
• “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
• “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Emerson
• “Life must be understood backward but lived forward.” – Kierkegaard
• “Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” – Camus
• “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Picasso
• “No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus

Daily Motivational Quotes

• “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs
• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
• “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
• “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill
• “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn
• “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln
• “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey
• “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown
• “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus 
• “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher
• “If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen

Motivational Quotes on Life

• “Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
• “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”
• “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”
• “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”
• “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, but what you do consistently.”
• “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
• “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
• “Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.”
• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
• “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.”
• “Great things never come from comfort zones.”
• “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”
• “The future depends on what you do today.” – Gandhi
• “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

• “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
• “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
• “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
• “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
• “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
• “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing.”
• “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
• “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
• “The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague.”
• “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
• “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
• “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
• “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
• “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”

Life is Strange Quotes

“Life is strange. Don’t waste it being someone you’re not.” – Max

• “This action will have consequences.”
• “The past is in the past.” – Chloe
• “Sometimes the right choice is the hardest one.” – Max
• “I can’t change everything, but I can try.” – Max
• “People can be pieces of a puzzle that don’t always fit.” – Chloe
• “Time is like a river. Always flowing.”
• “In the end, we all have choices.” – Max
• “Forgiveness is the first step to healing.”
• “Even the darkest storm passes.” – Chloe
• “We’re all connected in this strange life.”
• “Hope is stronger than fear.”
• “Sometimes silence says more than words.”
• “The future is unwritten. Make yours count.” – Max
• “Friendship is the lighthouse in life’s storm.” – Chloe

Very Short Quotes on Life

• “Life goes on.”
• “Stay humble.”
• “Choose joy.”
• “Keep moving.”
• “Breathe. Relax.”
• “Enjoy today.”
• “Dream big.”
• “Stay strong.”
• “Be yourself.”
• “Never settle.”
• “Live simply.”
• “Less is more.”
• “Stay kind.”
• “Be present.”
• “Smile often.”

• “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
• “Duty first, self second.”
• “Change is constant in life.”
• “Let us not take ourselves too seriously.”
• “Small steps lead to big change.”
• “Hard times build strong people.”
• “Hope and optimism light the way.”
• “Respect earns respect in return.”
• “We will meet again, stay strong.”
• “Serving others is true happiness.”

• “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James, American philosopher and psychologist
• “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Ghandi
• “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” —Madam C.J. Walker, American entrepreneur and activist
• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison
• “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
• “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler, American author and motivational speaker
• “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
• “You get what you give.” —Jennifer Lopez

Inspirational Quotes About Life

• “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” —Queen Elizabeth II
• “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” —Mikhail Gorbachev
• “In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent.” —Loretta Lynn
• “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” —Muhammad Ali
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
• “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination” —Mae Jemison, American engineer
• “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” —Marie Curie, French physicist and chemist
• “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” —Steve Jobs
• “I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine.” André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist
• “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” —Audrey Hepburn
• “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller
• “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
• “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett, American comedian and actress

Positive Life Quotes

• “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” —Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist
• “All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
• “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” —Viola Davis, American actress
• “Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal.” —Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
• “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” —Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman
• “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.” —Alexander the Great
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
• “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott
• “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet
• “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler
• “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ―A. A. Milne
• “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ―Martha Graham
• “Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried
• “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin
• “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis
• “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson
• “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm

Famous Quotes About Life

• “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” —Billie Jean King, American tennis player
• “We will fail when we fail to try.” —Rosa Parks
• “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein
• “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 Winfrey
• “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” —Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
• “Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.” —Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan
• “I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.” —Cicely Tyson, American actress
• “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald

Life Quotes Short

• “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” —William James
• “Attitude is the ‘little’ thing that makes a big difference.” —Winston Churchill
• “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson
• “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” —Mark Cuban
• “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy, Kenyan-British actor and pupeteer
• “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” —Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
• “I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.” —Taraji P. Henson, American actress
• “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” —Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick
• “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” —Anne Frank in The Diary of a Young Girl
• “Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.” —Olivia Newton-John, British-Australian singer and actress

Wisdom Quotes About Life

• “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne
• “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” —Charles Dickens
• “When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear.” –Elaine Welteroth
• “Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions.” —The Dalai Lama
• “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” —Camilla Eyring Kimball
• “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” —Jim Rohn
• “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore
• “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” —Mother Theresa
• “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan
• “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez

Quotes About Life Lessons

• “For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them.” —Grace Kelly
• “Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.” —Simone Biles
• “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Esteé Lauder
• “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
• “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan
• “The best revenge is massive success.” —Frank Sinatra
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
• “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” —Booker T. Washington
• “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” —Ronald Reagan
• “It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.” —Queen Elizabeth II

Wise Quotes About Life

• “You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you.” —Lupita Nyong’o
• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
• “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” —Lewis Caroll in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” —Ella Fitzgerald
• “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert H. Schuller
• “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” —Michelle Obama
• “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.” —Meghan Markle
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
• “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” —Lily Tomlin
• “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar

Wise Sayings About Life

• “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale
• “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” —Nicole Kidman
• “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” —Lindsey Vonn
• “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman
• “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” —Amanda Gorman
• “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle
• “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” —Demi Lovato
• Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
• “A dead-end street is a good place to turn around.” —Naomi Judd
• “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E.E. Cummings

Happy Life Quotes

• “Don’t save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.” —Gabrielle Union
• “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” —Maya Angelou
• “We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person.” —Anne Heche​​
• “Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.'” —Amy Poehler
• “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Seuss
• “My least favorite phrase in the English language is ‘I don’t care.'” —James Caan”