50 Quotes About Life That Will Inspire and Motivate You.

These encouraging words are guaranteed to brighten your mood.

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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.

1. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." — Dalai Lama

2. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." — John Lennon

3. "Get busy living or get busy dying." — Stephen King

4. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West

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

6. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."– Albert Einstein

7. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."– Babe Ruth

8. "Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

— Will Smith

9. "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."

– Steve Jobs

10. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

11. "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll

12. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale

13. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

14. "Success is a journey, not a destination." — Ben Sweetland

15. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar

16. "It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela

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

— Maya Angelou

18. "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." — W. Clement Stone

19. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill

20. “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” — Mallika Tripathi

21. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

22. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." — Milton Berle

23. "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” —Serena Williams

24. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”

—Carol Burnett

25. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” —Steve Jobs

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

27. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde

28. "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot— it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." — Maya Angelou

29. "Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

— Unknown

30. “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” — Naomi Judd

31. “Even miracles take a little time.” — The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

32. "You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

33. "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." — Dolly Parton

34. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”

— Dolly Parton

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

36. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

37. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan

38. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.” —Tony Robbins

39. “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. —Confucius

40. “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

41. “Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them.” —Sofia Vergara

42. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.”—Leonardo DiCaprio

43. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” —Kesha

44. "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise."

— Kobe Bryant

45. "I like criticism. It makes you strong." — LeBron James

46. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." ― George Clooney

47. "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

48. "Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty." — John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)

49. "Live for each second without hesitation." — Elton John

50. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein