Live to Inspire Quotes: Motivational Wisdom for Your Best Life

"The purpose of life, after all, 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 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

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build…live the life that only you can live."

- Naval Ravikant

"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

"Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Andy Andrews

"Have the courage to build your life around what is really most important to you."

- Joshua Becker

"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

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Maya Angelou

"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mae West

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you."

- C. JoyBell C.

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Annie Dillard

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Dolly Parton

"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around."

- Richard Leider

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

- Aristotle

"The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Life needs to be experienced fully, not only in its sweetest, easiest moments. This is what mindfulness is all about—being here and now, with pure awareness of our experiences."

- Jennifer Burger

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- George Eliot

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

- Carol Burnett

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Les Brown

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- May Sarton

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

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- William Osler

"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you're left only with what you love, with what's necessary, with what makes you happy."

- Leo Babauta

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

- Irving Berlin

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

"Mistakes are water. Grow your lessons from them."

- Alexandra Elle

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Buddha

"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

- Brené Brown

"Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do."

- Thomas Davidson

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

- Proverbs 29:18

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Dolly Parton

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"You are both good and bad and messy and complex and still worthy of compassion, love, and acceptance."

- SaraJane Case

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Ayn Rand

"If you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it."

- Mandy Hale

"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

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- John Lennon

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Life is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

- Charles Darwin

"The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."

- Steven Furtick

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate."

- C. JoyBell C.

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn."

- David Russell

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Og Mandino

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

- Cassandra Clare

"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- John Guare

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Andre Gide

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Zendaya

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Virginia Woolf

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"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

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

- Kesha

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Margaret Mead

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Charles Dickens

"What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out."

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Margaret Atwood

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."

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