50 Inspiring Quotes About Life

Great quotations offer inspiration and encouragement; they allow people to learn from the wisdom of previous generations, and from their contemporaries as well. Some of the best quotes about life are listed here.

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50 Inspiring Quotes About Life

1. “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein

2. “The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”- Theodore Roosevelt

3. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” – Peace Pilgrim

4. “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

5. “Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens

6. “Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

7. “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

8. “Adversity is the first path to truth.” – Byron

9. “All problems become smaller if, instead of indulging them, you confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.” William S. Halsey

10. “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

12. “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist makes opportunities of his difficulties.” – Reginald B. Mansell

13. “Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.” – Carlyle

14. “Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.” – Samuel Johnson

15. “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” – Goethe

16. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

17. “Every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.” – I Corinthians 5:7

18. “A man learns little from victory; much from defeat.” – Chinese Proverb

19. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – G.B. Shaw

20. ”The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.” – Robert Brault

21. “I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things that he fears to do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

22. “We’re all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.” – Marianne Williamson

23. “Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you’re friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.” – Dr. David Hawkins

24. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but also becomes constantly more valuable.” – Harvy Ullman

25. “The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts…” – William Lyon Phelps

26. “Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.” – Henry Vandyke

27. “There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.” – Deepak Chopra

28. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – Dryden

29. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

30. “Children have more need of models than of critics.” Joseph Joubert

31. “What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot

32. “The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is listen.” – Ray E. Moody

33. “Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.” – Brian Tracy

34. “Consider the postage stamp, my son. Its usefulness consists in its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.” – Anonymous

35. “There is always a better way.” – Thomas A. Edison

36. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

37. “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore they had better aim at something high.” – Henry David Thoreau

38. “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” – Condorcet

39. “You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.” – Karl Albrecht

40. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.” – Vince Lombardi

41. “Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn’t about material things; it’s about love. And you can never anticipate love.” – From “Dewey, the Library Cat”

42. “Do you know who the luckiest people on earth are? To my way of thinking, they are those who have developed an almost constant sense of gratitude.” – Earl Nightingale

43. “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” – Dale Carnegie

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

45. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” – Helen Keller

46. “In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.” – Shing Xiong

47. 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 that has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

48. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

– Mark Twain

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

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