Meaningful quotes offer inspiration and wisdom that resonate with us on many levels. They capture truths about life, success, happiness, and resilience, each bringing a fresh perspective. Here is a collection of quotes with meaning that can serve as thoughtful reminders in any season of life.
Meaningful Quotes
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – Buddha
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
- “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine-and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
