If you’re in need of motivation and inspiration, these life quotes are exactly what you need to hear. Advice from practicing self-love to having a sense of humor to being optimistic never grows old and will surely help you find the push you need to get where you’re going. Whether you were born into a wealthy family or a poor one, your life will be full of ups and downs. The goal in life is to minimize the down’s and live a happy and inspiring existence.
If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. — Maya Angelou
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. — Oprah Winfrey
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky
Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine. — Mario Fernandez
The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything. — Frank Sinatra
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great. — Simon Cowell
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. — Audrey Hepburn
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. — Kevin Kruse
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. — Jack London
I’ll be ok. Just not today. — Unknown
Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. — Unknown
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. — Eckhart Tolle
Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it. — Soyen Shaku
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Many people are afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy is those who are afraid of the light. — Plato
Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light. — Izzi
In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. — Bobby McFerrin
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
When two people fall in love, past and future disappear. — Paulo Coelho
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Maya Angelou
Begin at once to live and count each day as a separate life. — Seneca
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is free, but it’s priceless. — Harvey MacKay
The people you must lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. — Michael Ventura
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment-Buddha
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
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how- Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not remember days, we remember moments-Cesare Pavese
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
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed- Eminem
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans- John Lennon
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
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?- Bob Marley
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’- Erma Bombeck
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.– Thomas A. Edison
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.— Seneca
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.– Henry Ford
Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth. – (Attributed to various sources)
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. —Dolly Parton
Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can. — Hillary Clinton
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. — Ashton Kutcher
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. — Kevin Hart
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. — Kobe Bryant
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.― George Clooney
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.— Celine Dion
Life brings us as many joyful moments as it does downfalls, and although there are days we wish there was a manual to follow, it simply wouldn’t be the same without the spontaneity. The journey of life may not become easier as we grow older, but we do seem to understand it better as our perspectives evolve. Whether you’re embarking on a new adventure right out of school or you want to explore different paths in your personal life, it’s never too late to change what the future looks like.