180 Famous Quotes on Life, Love, and Success

Whatever situation you’re in, these quotes about life will motivate, inspire, and encourage you. Keep reading for quotes that will help you live life abundantly. Allow these great quotes about life to show you just how precious our time on this earth is. Life can be full of challenges and hurdles, but you can overcome them with the right mindset and motivation. These encouraging quotes from changemakers will inspire you to be your best self.

Famous Quotes on Life

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”

“We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”

“Never tell your problems to anyone because don’t care & glad you have them.”

“Stop expecting loyalty from people who can’t even give you honesty.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”

“Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.” — George Bernard Shaw, what you have.

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran.

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain.

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” — Aristotle

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” — Will Rogers

“Life is what happens to us and how we react to it.” — Charles Swindoll

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” — Sydney Harris

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” — Bruce Lee

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” — Albert Einstein

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

Famous Quotes on Love

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly endures. Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” — Les Brown

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs are more people who have, life.” — Howard Thurman

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happened when you don’t have a plan.” — Larry Winget

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that it would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” — Erma Bombeck

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

“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

Famous Quotes on Success

“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.” — English proverb

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“I’ve missed more than shots in my career. I’ve lost almost game.

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

“You can never cross the ocean until you dare to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us live from moment to moment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” — Will Rogers

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.” — Mark Twain

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found ways to do it wrong.” — Benjamin Franklin

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got them.” — Tony Robbins

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” — W. Clement Stone

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by deceits you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” — Booker T. Washington

Life Quotes To Live By On Success, Love, and Family

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” — John Allen Paulos

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

“The best time to plant a tree was years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese proverb

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” — Confucius

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” — Lao Tzu

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is that things are being loved, and people are being used.” — Unknown

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is merely living death.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.” — Tom Watson

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We all know how important love is, yet how often is it emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from—loneliness, boredom, and fear—can’t be cured with a pill.” — Albert Schweitzer

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

“Be happy with what have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” — William E. Gladstone

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” — Frederick Koenig

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Herman Cain

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It’s not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montagu

Inspirational Quotes About Life And Love And Struggles

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” — Stacy Charter

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your destiny.” — Albert Ellis

“It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” — Seneca

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Oppenheim

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want to suffer. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing your happiness.” — Dalai Lama

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde

“The most beautiful people we have known of those who have known defeat, known to suffer, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through the doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” — Rose Lane

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself in. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” — Martha Washington

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions.” — Dalai Lama

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of your will.” — Epictetus

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chances placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom, and openmindedness. Question: Isn’t the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? they refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.”

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”

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

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“Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.”

“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and god damn it, died in a hotel room.”

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

Deep Short Quotes About Love And Life

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone has idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second.”

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘certainly I can!’ then get busy and find out how to do it.”

“I paint flowers so they do not die.”

“The hour of our departure has arrived, and we go our ways I to die, and you to live. Which is better only God knows.”

“Never respond to rudeness. When people are rude to you, they reveal who they are, not who you are. Don’t take it personally be silent.”

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Adhd quotes for a bad day “to be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

“When I was five 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

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” — Jack Canfield

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” — Marcel Pagnol

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.”

“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

“Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring the mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against any idea, religion, or government that limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank god that such men lived.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”

“The constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying; its declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray.”

“The strongest factor for success is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.”

“Art is never finished only abandoned.”

“If only he could stay put. He would reap the fruits of his labors: but always he must be running after a new possibility. Quitting his newly planted fields while others gather in the harvest.”

“Sometimes you miss the memories. Not the person.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

“Forget the mistake remember the lesson.”

“Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.”

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

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents are.”

“Walk like you have three men walking behind you.”

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving.”

“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard. The right people -the ones who belong in your life will come to you. And stay.”

“I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”

“Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?.”

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“Stay strong, make them wonder how you’re still smiling.”

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

“Be the reason someone smiles today.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world. Even your shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Promise me you’ll remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think.” Life Quote Pictures. Inspirational and motivational quotes for life!. See more ideas about Motivational quotes with images, Quotes, and Inspirational quotes with pics.

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