Are you finding life difficult at the moment? Are you struggling with issues that are getting you down? Suffering from a lack of self-motivation? Fed up with dealing with negative people?
Unfortunately, we all take knocks and get setbacks, but with fortitude and persistence, you will prevail. So what do you need to get back to your best self? Often it’s just a few words of encouragement that will remind you that your life will get better.
Here’s a list I’ve put together of the 100 best uplifting quotes about life to help get you back on your feet. Both inspirational and motivational, these quotes have the power to change your life. I hope they help.
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “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
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” – Zig Ziglar
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
- “You change your life by changing your heart.” – Max Lucado
- “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.” – Albert Einstein
- “Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “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
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
- “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
- “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
- “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Your life only gets better when you get better.” – Brian Tracy
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
