Inspirational Quotes About Life
Read this collection of Inspirational Quotes About Life and let us know in the comment section which one will become your daily mantra.
At Everyday Power, we have compiled quotes from a wide variety of great minds, including authors, athletes, TV personalities, and CEOs.
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| 100 Inspirational Quotes About Life |
1. "It is not how long but how well we live that matters."
__Jeremiah Say
2. "Life is not a solo but a chorus. We live in relationships from cradle to grave."
__Anon.
3. "Life is worth living better than most men live it."
Anon.
4. "Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows."
Anon.
5. "Everything in life is a test of character."
John Blanchard
6. "Life ought not merely to contain acts of worship, it should be an act of worship."
John Blanchard
7. "Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s paradise."
Phillips Brooks
8. "The quality of life is more important than life itself."
Alexis Carrel
9. "Life is too short to be small."
Benjamin Disraeli
10. "The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."
Albert Einstein
11. "What makes life dreary is absence of motive. What makes life complicated is multiplicity of motive. What makes life victorious is singleness of motive."
George Eliot
12. "Life is not measured by length but by depth. Birthdays tell us how long we have been on the road, not how far we have travelled."
Vance Havner
13. "Every man’s life is his opportunity of doing that which will make for him in eternity."
Matthew Henry
14. "Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."
William James
15. "The most important thing in life is to live your life for something more important than your life."
William James
16. "The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may."
Martin Luther King
17. "Make sure the thing you are living for is worth dying for."
Charles Mayes
18. "The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills."
Richard J. Needham
19. "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
William Osler
20. "The whole of life is a test, a trial of what is in us, so arranged by God himself."
William S. Plumer
21. "We are not so to live as if we had nothing but a body."
J. C. Ryle
22. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain
23. "We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions."
Richard Steele
24. "Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live."
James S. Stewart
25. "Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
26. "No one can live well until they can die well."
David Watson
27. "Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death."
George Whitefield
28. "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
Norman Cousins
29. "Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life."
Spiros Zodhiates
30. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
31. "Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it."
Naval Ravikant
32. "Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."
Roy T. Bennett
33. "The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
Stephanie Perkins
34. "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
C.S. Lewis
35. "You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved."
Stewart O’Nan
36. "Life is a question and how we live it is our answer."
Gary Keller
37. "See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself."
Mark Manson
38."Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live."
Natalie Babbitt
39. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Soren Kierkegaard
40. "Most of life is about searching, it’s not about doing. People spend too much time doing and not thinking about what they should be doing."
Naval Ravikant
41. "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
Lao Tzu
42. "No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
Carl Jung
43. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie
44. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
45. "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
Charles Bukowski
46. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
47. "You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now."
Joan Baez
48. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
Seneca
49. "Life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation."
Neale Donald Walsch
50. "It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have."
Fred Rogers
51. 'Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
Marilyn Monroe
52. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it."
Henry Ford
53. "A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
Jeff Olson
54. "It's not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters."
Margaret Laurence
55. "Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."
Paulo Coelho
56. "Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
57."Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."
Lillian Dickson
58. " The less you give a damn to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become."
Jeremiah Say
59. "Don't give it five minutes if you're not going to give it five years."
Meghan Markle
60. "Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude."
Anne Frank
61. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
62. "In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double."
Bobby Mcferrin
63. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn."
David Russell
64. "Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
65. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
66. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
67. "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
68. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, '"What are you doing for others?""
Martin Luther King, Jr.
69. "The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
Mulan
70. "Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memory is sweet, cherish it."
Jeremiah Say
71.The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
72. "Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
Wayne Dyer
73. "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
Dolly Parton
74. "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
Jack London
75. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
Oprah Winfrey
76. "A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do."
Osho
77. "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin
78. "The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
79. "By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."
Edwin Elliot
80. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."
Ferris Bueller
81. "The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."
Carl Jung
82. "Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."
Steve Maraboli
83. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Tony Robbins
84. "Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Eleanor Roosevelt
85. "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works."
Leonardo da Vinci
86. "Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."
Bob Marley
87. "Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
Leo Buscaglia
88. "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
89. "Take time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
Robert Brault
90. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
Andre Gide
91. "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life."
T.S. Eliot
92."Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."
Sarah Louise Delany
93."Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
Alfred Adler
94. "Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want tomorrow."
Neil Strauss
95. "Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things."
Kenneth Branagh
96. "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
Henry Miller
97. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
98. "Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!"
Epictetus
99. "If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing and the tutorial is way too long."
Elon Musk
100. "Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand."
Jack London