Everyone goes through tough times where it’s hard to stay positive. Life’s challenges can knock down your motivation and leave you feeling low, wondering about the purpose of everything.
If you often focus on the negatives rather than the positives, it’s a good idea to start reading inspirational quotes about life right away! Here’s a collection of my favorites.
- The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith
- Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
- “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
- “In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra
- 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.” – Mark Twain
- “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” – Kenneth Branagh
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. ” – Audrey Hepburn
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
- “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
- “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D. H. Lawrence
- “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I never want to look back and think, ‘I wish I had done this or that.'” – Kim Kardashian
- “Live for each second without hesitation.” – Elton John
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens
- “Your life is as good as your mindset.” – Anonymous
- “A life without challenge would be like going to school without lessons to learn.” – Anonymous
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Only life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
- “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
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
- “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
- “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
- “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
- Life is really generous to those who pursue their personal legend.” – Paulo Coelho
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You change your life by changing your heart.” – Max Lucado
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
- “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Life is a series of baby steps.” – Hoda Kotb
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.” – Tom Clancy
- “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright
- “Live in the moment and become present in all that you do. Don’t worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what’s going to happen tomorrow. Stay here, stay now.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” – Woody Allen
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride.” – Anonymous
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
