140 Life Quotes – Inspiration, Hope & A Life Well Lived

A powerful collection of life quotes that highlight that life is hope, love, pain, purpose, adventure, faith and fun. It’s the big milestones in life and equally, all the little moments in between.

You will find famous quotes, deep quotes about life, inspiring pep-talks on living your best life, old words of wisdom and truly beautiful quotes that have the power to motivate in modern times.

Ponder each of these quotes about life and reflect on what they stir in you – do they encourage and inspire you, or do they challenge you to seek change and taking a path less travelled?

 

Life Quotes For Inspiring The Good Life

 

1. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu

 

2. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw

 

 

3. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

4. “All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” John Wooden

5. “It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

6. “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” E. E. Cummings

 

7. “It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” Napoleon Hill

 

 

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

 

9. “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” John Lennon

 

10. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” William Feather

 

11. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” Ernest Holmes

 

12. “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” Stephen Covey

 

13. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne

 

14. “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.” Audre Lorde

 

 

15. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” E. M. Forster

 

16. “Life is half spent before we know what it is.” George Herbert

 

17. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou

 

18. “Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.” Idowu Koyenikan

 

19. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” Cesare Pavese

 

20. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” Eric Butterworth

 

21. “To live is to think.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

22. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” Hans Christian Andersen

23. “Into each life some rain must fall.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

24. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” James Cameron

 

25. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha

 

26. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson

 

27. The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.” Indira Gandhi

 

28. “A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” James Allen

 

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

 

30. “Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.” Jonathan Sacks

 

31. “Life is about choices. The better you become at making good choices the better your life will be.” Germany Kent

 

32. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” Josh Billings

 

33. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” Eminem

 

34. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” Seneca

 

35. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton

 

36. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Dalai Lama

 

37. “We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” Lauryn Hill

 

38. “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

 

39. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” Bob Marley

 

40. “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

 

41. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” Eleanor Roosevelt

 

42. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche

 

43. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius

 

44. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.” Elon Musk

 

45. “The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” Jimi Hendrix

 

46. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson

 

47. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore

 

48. “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” Alice Roosevelt Longworth

 

 

49. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” Walter Hagen

 

Quotes About Life

 

50. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela

 

51. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” William Morris

 

52. “Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” Charles Lindbergh

 

53. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” Havelock Ellis

 

54. “Growth is the only evidence of life.” John Henry Newman

 

55. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz

 

56. “It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” Philip Green

 

57. “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” George Eliot

 

58. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn

 

59. “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” Ben Stein

 

60. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” Bruce Lee

 

 

61. “Life is too short to work so hard.” Vivien Leigh

 

 

62. “All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.” Robert Fulghum

 

 

63. “Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

64. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci

 

65. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” William Hazlitt

 

66. “To know nothing is the happiest life.” Desiderius Erasmus

 

67. “Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” Horace

 

68. “Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” Robert E. Lee

 

69. “We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.” Will Rogers

 

70. “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” Vernon Howard

 

71. “The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

72. “Life is a zoo in a jungle.” Peter De Vries

 

73. “Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” Brendan Gill

 

74. “I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.” Charles M. Schulz

 

75. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” Marcus Aurelius

 

76. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau

 

77. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mahatma Gandhi

 

78. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaard

 

79. “Life is wasted on the living.” Douglas Adams

 

Inspirational Sayings on Life

 

80. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

81. “Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” Jorge Luis Borges

 

82. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

 

83. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw

 

84. “Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.” Seneca

 

85. “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain

 

86. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

 

87. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” Socrates

 

88. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” Albert Camus

 

89. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

90. “What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” Ralph Marston

 

91. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” Carl Jung

 

92. “The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.” Henri Nouwen

 

93. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell

 

94. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” Euripides

 

95. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” John F. Kennedy

 

96. “Life must be lived as play.” Plato

 

97. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

98. “Life loves the liver of it.” Maya Angelou

 

99. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” Wayne Dyer

 

100. “Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

Inspirational Quotes About Life

 

101. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.” Walt Disney

 

102.“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” Tony Robbins

 

103. “Get busy living or get busy dying…..there ain’t nothing in between.” Stephen King

 

104. “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. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

 

105. “No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.” Jeffrey Fry

 

106. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

 

107. “No matter what happens in the outside world, as long as you have faith in yourself, no darkness can touch you!” Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

108. “For the unexamined life is not worth living.” Plato

 

109. “Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” Khalil Gibran

 

110. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein

 

111. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” Helen Keller

 

112. “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” Katharine Hepburn

 

113. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin

 

114. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln

 

115. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Mother Teresa

 

116. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” Steve Jobs

 

117. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead

 

118. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa

 

119. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” Robert Louis Stevenson

 

120. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford

 

121. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” Maya Angelou

 

122. “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 which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

 

123. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa Parks

 

124. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein

 

125. “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

 

126. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

 

127. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey

 

128. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa

 

129. “To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people just exist.” Oscar Wilde

 

130. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” Stephen King

 

131. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle Onassis

 

132. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act!” Amelia Earhart

 

133. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” Seneca

 

134. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

 

135. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” William James

 

136. “The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.” Carol S. Dweck

 

137. “Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and the whole world.” Amit Ray

 

138. “Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what’s important in life.” Germany Kent

 

139. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost

 

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

 

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