Introduction

Life quotes can turn around the heaviest of days. Whether you’re feeling
disconnected or need a positive note to help you through a particularly
tough time, quotes about life can help put things into perspective.
Maybe you’re looking for motivation to get you through a tough work
week, or you want to send friends words of encouragement to let them
know you care. Quotes about life are perfect for these situations. Or
perhaps you, yourself, will want to bookmark these words of wisdom to
read at the start of your day to help set you up for success. If you’re more
of an evening person, maybe reading some life quotes before bed will
yield more pleasant dreams.
From trailblazing icons like Dolly Parton and Oprah Winfrey to actresses
like Sofia Vergara and Drew Barrymore, these amazing sayings offer a
fresh look at life. Read on and make sure to share these with friends,
family, or even a stranger to brighten their day. And if you’re looking for
something specific, check out our loneliness quotes, friendship quotes,
and self-love quotes.

Inspirational life quotes

1. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” —Serena
Williams
2. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —
Carol Burnett
3. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s
all that matters.” —Steve Jobs
4. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without
leaving happier.” —Mother Teresa
5. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
6. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your
dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
7. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” —Franklin D.
Roosevelt
8. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept
not trying.” —Michael Jordan
9. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.” —Tony Robbins
10. “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not
stop.” —Confucius
11. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” —Dolly Parton
12. “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
13. “Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes
others attracted to them.” —Sofia Vergara
14.“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further
along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
15. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things
that people are.” —Kesha
16.“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or
not.” —Deepak Chopra
17. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your
world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
18. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the
less you let things upset you.” —Stephanie Perkins
19.“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that
was not there before.” —Edwin Elliot
20. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor
Roosevelt
21. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George
Elliot
 22. “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
23. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are
challenged to change ourselves.” —Viktor E. Frankl
24. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great
way.” —Napoleon Hill
25. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest
later.” —Og Mandino
Motivational life quotes

26. “Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every
mistake has a lesson to offer.” —Oprah Winfrey
27. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving
another one.” —Dolly Parton
28. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”—Will Rogers
29. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so
much to smile about.” —Marilyn Monroe
30. “Be persistent and never give up hope.” —George Lucas
31. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around
us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
32. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” —Charles
Kettering
33. “There are so many great things in life; why dwell on
negativity?” —Zendaya
34. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know
you left open.” —John Barrymore
35. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like
everyone else.” —Margaret Mead
36. “Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall
behind you.” —Walt Whitman
37. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke
Ellington
38. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to
breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale
39. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” —
Audrey Hepburn
40. “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” —Annette
Funicello
 41.“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the
light.” —Aristotle
42. “The best way out is through.” —Robert Frost
43. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —
John D. Rockefeller
44. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” —
Henry Ford
45. “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
46. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” —Bob Marley
47. “Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall
behind you.” —Walt Whitman
48. “The only person you are destined to become is the person
you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “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
50. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look
at change.” —Wayne Dyer
Life quotes about the future
51. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be
defeated.” —Maya Angelou
52. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
53. “Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may
look back and realize they were the big things.” —Robert Brault
54. “The future is not something we enter. The future is
something we create.” —Leonard I. Sweet
55. “Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on
tight and off you go.” —Nicole Kidman
56. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —
Malcolm X
57. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any
happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker
58. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne
Gretzky
59. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” —James M. Barrie
60. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your
script.” —Oprah Winfrey
 61.“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one
that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
62. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what
we give.” —Winston Churchill
63. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that
counts.” —Nikki Giovanni
64. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —
Lao Tzu
65. “Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about
is: Am I doing what I’m good at?” —Max Levchin
66. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle
for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
67. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” —Les
Brown
68. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life
in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
69. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but
you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou
70. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
72. “We become what we think about most of the time.” —Earl
Nightingale
73. “Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest
pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
74. “Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” —Helen
Keller
75. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” —
Charles Dickens
Life quotes about success
76. “Success is falling nine times and getting up 10.” —Jon Bon
Jovi
77.“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are
two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
78. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
—Arthur Ashe
79. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” —
Alexander Graham Bell
80. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle
you arrive in.” —Bill Bradley
 81. “If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.” —
Lady Gaga
82. “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston
83. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is
progress; working together is success.” —Henry Ford
84. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” —
Margaret Fuller
85. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything
new.” —Albert Einstein
86. “How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy
for you to be remarkable?” —Seth Godin
87. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming
them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine
88. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we
employed when we came up with them.” —Albert Einstein
89. “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
90. “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in
helping you achieve it.” —Paulo Coelho
91.“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that
you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
92. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
—Herman Melville
93. “Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once.” —
Drew Houston
94. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards.” —Vernon Sanders Law
95. “Dream big and dare to fail.” —Norman Vaughan
96. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand
firm.” —Abraham Lincoln
97. “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
98. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is
a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent
Van Gogh
99. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
100. “It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not
expectations.” —Danny Boyle