Inspiring Quotes About Life: A Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

Explore a curated collection of inspiring quotes about life that will motivate and uplift you. Discover wisdom from renowned figures and find your daily dose of inspiration!

Wisdom from the Masters

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

- John Stuart Mill

Contentment

"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

Ambition

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

- Rosa Parks

Inspiration

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

- Helen Keller

Contentment

"Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. That's the exciting part."

- Emeril Lagasse

Motivation

"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Self-improvement

"You're going to go through tough times—that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

Resilience

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

Growth

"You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do."

- Barbara Bush

Choice

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

Family

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

Change

"You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."

- Dr. Seuss

Awareness

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

Courage

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

- Maya Angelou

Reflection

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

Aspirations

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

Aspirations

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Happiness

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

New Beginnings

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

- Malcolm Forbes

Aspirations

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

- Morris West

Contentment

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

Happiness

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

Happiness

"We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness."

- Hillary Clinton

Compassion

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

Belief in Self

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

Choice

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

- Jeff Bezos

Determination

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

Belief in Self

"Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow."

- Jay-Z

Personal Growth

"There are no mistakes, only opportunities."

- Tina Fey

Growth

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

Integrity

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

- Audrey Hepburn

Service

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growth

"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …"

- Steve Jobs

Creativity

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Ambition

"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

Courage

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

Mindfulness

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

- Sholom Aleichem

Philosophy

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

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Change

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

Happiness

"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness

"The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

- Socrates

Contentment

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

- Confucius

Mindfulness

"The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

- Seneca

Contentment

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness

"When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

Goals

"There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that."

- Derek Jeter

Hard Work

"Don't be afraid to fail. It's not the end of the world, and in many ways, it's the first step toward learning something and getting better at it."

- Jon Hamm

Failure

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

- Drew Barrymore

Adversity

"I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore."

- Bradley Cooper

Awareness

"I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life."

- George Clooney

Philosophy

"It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

- Jane Fonda

New Beginnings

"You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake."

- Emma Stone

Joy

"A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."

- Chuck Norris

Perseverance

"Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down."

- Jimmy Durante

Compassion

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me."

- Brad Pitt

Empowerment

"The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead."

- Jack

Learning

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

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

- Bob Marley

Happiness

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Charles Dickens

Change

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Resilience

"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

Independence

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

Awareness

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Compassion

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

Belief in Self

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

Aspirations

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."

- Lillian Dickinson

Time Management

"Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Peter Drucker

Vision

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

Determination

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

- Mae West

Contentment

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

Goals

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

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

- Will Smith

Success

"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

Belief in Self

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

- Seneca

Contentment

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Change

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

Success

"In order to write about life first you must live it."

- Ernest Hemingway

Personal Growth

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."

- Frank Sinatra

Courage

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

- Leo Burnett

Creativity

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Soren Kierkegaard

Awareness

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

Reflection

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

Resilience

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

- Dolly Parton

Optimism

"Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can."

- Hillary Clinton

Compassion

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

- Ashton Kutcher

Ambition

"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

- Kevin Hart

Hard Work

"Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

Overcoming Obstacles

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

- LeBron James

Strength

"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."

- George Clooney

Learning

"Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this."

- Celine Dion

Choice

"Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty."

- John F. Kennedy

Responsibility

"Live for each second without hesitation."

- Elton John

Presence

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

Simplicity

"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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

Success

"My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

Adaptation

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

- Lao-Tze

Wisdom

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another."

- Helen Keller

Contribution

"The healthiest response to life is joy."

- Deepak Chopra

Happiness

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love."

- Wordsworth

Compassion

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

- Charles Swindoll

Awareness

"Keep calm and carry on."

- Winston S. Churchill

Courage

"Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars."

- Jack Kerouac

Imagination

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

Love

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

- Buddha

Well-being

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

- Mark Twain

Contentment

"Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny."

- Stephen Hawking

Happiness

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."

- Euripides

Love

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

Awareness

"Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

- Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

Success

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

Failure

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Mark Twain

Self-awareness

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

- Anais Nin

Courage

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

- John Lennon

Happiness

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

Aspirations

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

Awareness

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

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

- Bill Clinton

Learning from Mistakes

"Life is short, and it is here to be lived."

- Kate Winslet

Contentment

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

Self-esteem

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

Determination

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

Self-care

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

Self-awareness

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

Success

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

Success

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

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

- Bill Bradley

Success

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

- Lady Gaga

Success

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

- Jennifer Aniston

Reflection

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

Ambition

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

Ambition

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

- Paulo Coelho

Success

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

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

- Drew Houston

Success

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

Success

"There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth."

- Rick Warren

Aspirations

"You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence."

- Joel Osteen

Resilience

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

Belief in Self

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

Independence

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

Change

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"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

Inspiration

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

Love

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

Empowerment

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

Taking Risks

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

Resilience

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

Self-awareness

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

Awareness

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

Leadership

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

Compassion

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

Courage

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Resilience

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

Self-care

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

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

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

Happiness

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

- Mother Teresa

Compassion

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Ambition

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

Courage

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

Motivation

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

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

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

"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

Personal Growth

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

Self-confidence

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

Happiness

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

- Kesha

Empowerment

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

- Deepak Chopra

Ambition

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

Self-awareness

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

Self-awareness

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

Motivation

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

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Will Rogers

Focus

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

- W.P. Kinsella

Taking Risks

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

Perseverance

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

Belief

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

- Buddha

Presence

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude

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

- Zendaya

Positivity

"You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you."

- Kim Kiyosaki

Empowerment

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

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

Personal Growth

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

Happiness

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

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Change

"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

Belief

"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 Bailey

Joy

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

"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

Taking Risks

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

Hope

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

Vision

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

- Malcolm X

Success

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

Personal Growth

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

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

- Joseph Campbell

New Beginnings

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

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

Self-awareness

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

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

- Les Brown

Empowerment

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

Belief in Self

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

- Drew Barrymore

Growth

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

- Helen Keller

Ambition

"If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living."

- Gail Sheehy

Change

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

Aspirations

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

Learning from Mistakes

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Shawshank Redemption

Choice

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

- Seneca

Gratitude

"Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level."

- T.D. Jakes

Transformation

"There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what."

- Stephen Curry

Family

"Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Motivation

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

- George S. Halas

Achievement

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

Compassion

"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning."

- John McLeod

New Beginnings

"Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

Adversity

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

Happiness

"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me."

- Loretta Lynn

Optimism

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Annette Funicello

Contentment

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore."

- Elvis Presley

Awareness

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

Philosophy

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

Success

"Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person."

- Derek Jeter

Integrity

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

New Beginnings

"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

- Jennifer Aniston

Self-awareness

"As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in."

- Helen Keller

Awareness

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

Courage

"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive."

- Joan Rivers

Happiness

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

Awareness

"Find people who will make you better."

- Michelle Obama

Connection to Earth

"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."

- Doctor Who

Balance

"Today, you have 100% of your life left."

- Tom Landry

Future

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

- Jimmy Carter

Connection to Earth

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."

- George Bernard Shaw

Contentment

"Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."

- Vince Lombardi

Hard Work

"As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give."

- David DeNotaris

Reflection

"Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself."

- Yoda (Star Wars Quotes)

Mindfulness

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

- Eudora Welty

Balance

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

- Jimmy Carter

Spirituality

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

Aspirations

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

Contentment

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."

- Anonymous

Happiness

"Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth."

- (Attributed to various sources)

Joy

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Aspirations

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

Ambition

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."

Happiness

"You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power."

Empowerment

"You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both."

Relationships

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default."

Failure