278 Inspirational Beautiful Quotes on Life to Transform Your Perspective

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

- Mark Twain

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

- Neil Gaiman

"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

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

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

- Buddha

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"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

"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice."

- Andy Andrews

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

- Douglas Adams

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

"There's love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Dolly Parton

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets."

- Gary Keller

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Albert Einstein

"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Andre Gide

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours."

- Ayn Rand

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

- May Sarton

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Cut yourself off from the past and the future and live in the present, and your life becomes a song and a dance."

- Osho

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"My life is my message."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy."

- Jim Rohn

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Christopher Columbus

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

- Emily Dickinson

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

"Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"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

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Les Brown

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Jim Elliot

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."

- Ralph Ellison

"When we allow ourselves to embrace the moment, we allow ourselves to live."

- Louise Penny

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Dorothea Brande

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

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

- Mandy Hale

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"If you don't have any shadows, you're not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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

- Bill Clinton

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Your clarity determines how successfully you walk this life."

- Sadhguru

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

- Confucius

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"Next time, ask 'What's the worst that will happen?' Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Berry

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don't worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fessler

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"Life is a question and how we live it is our answer."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something."