Inspiring quotes at the right time help us to make our moments of frustration and difficulties into courage giving us hope and happiness.
Inspirational quotes have been part of our daily life as every morning we receive them from our friends, family and well-wishers.
If only we know how to apply them in our day-to-day life, it can become a treasure for us.
Here I am sharing with you the most inspirational quotes which has been a source of motivation for many people and I am sure for you too.
These quotes are mostly from my morning reads which is the reason the writer is the same in most of the quotes.
I hope these life quotes will inspire and motivate you.
Life Quotes for Inspiration
1. “Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your days. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do is actually creating your future.” – Robin Sharma
2. “The most important things in life are not things.” Anthony J.D’Angelo
3. “At the end the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper. We all end as dust. So let’s have some fun.” – Robin Sharma
4. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.” Maya Angelo
5. “Leave things better than you found them.” – Robin Sharma
6. “Join with those who sing, tell stories, take pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious.” Paula Coelho. – The Archer
7. “Life is pure adventure and sooner we realise that the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” Robin Sharma
8. “What you focus on grows. What you concentrate is what you see more of in your life.” Robin Sharma
9. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen” Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “Each day life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.” – Robin Sharma
11. “Life is not about accumulation, it is about contribution.” Stephen Covey
12. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” Les Brown
13. “Without hard work nothing grows but weeds.” Gordon B. Hinckley
14. “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin
15. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
16. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville
17. “Life is not only about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” Vivian Komori
18. “Your wealth can decorate only your house, but not you. Your own virtue can decorate you. Your dress can decorate your body, not you. Only your good conduct can decorate you.” Anonymous
19. “When you are good to others you are best to yourself.” Anonymous
20. “When you want something, all the universe conspire to help you achieve it.” Paula Coelho
21. “You teach people – what you allow, what you stop and what you reflect of yourself.” Anonymous
22. “Life is always fair in the end. Trust it.” Robin Sharma
23. “You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we are not. We always have the power of our mindsClaim and consciously use your power.”- Louise L. Hay
24. “No matter what life sends us, we are responsible for the way we respond.” Robin Sharma
25. “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” Tony Robbins
Life quotes to live by
26. “Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished” Lao Tzu
27. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle Onassis
28. “We may not be saintly enough to love our enemies, but for the sake of our health and happiness, let us at least forgive them and forget them.” Dale Carnegie
29. “Wisdom is when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.”- Evangel
30. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “It is not how long we live, but how well we live.”- Martin Luther King
32. “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
33. “Everyday living is a life lesson.”
34. “Do your best and let life do the rest.” – Robin Sharma
35. “Every morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
36. “Stop acting small you are a universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi
37. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
38. “A positive mind with a loving heart can let us have healthy and stress free lives.”
39. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.” – Ralph Marston
40. “Life isn’t meant to be an ordeal. It was meant to be a celebration. So have big time as you chase and catch your most cherished dreams.” – Robin Sharma
41. “Ask yourself what needs to get done, what values you need to live.” – Robin Sharma
42. “Beautiful tomorrow never comes. When it comes it is already today! In hunt of beautiful tomorrow, let’s not waste the beautiful today.”
43. “Do not someone’s else opinion of you become your reality.” – Ans – Les Brown
44. “Life is too short to be miserable.” Robin Sharma
45. “Find ways to connect with people you work with. With the loved ones you lived with. And with the stranger with whom you share this journey of life.” – Robin Sharma
46. “Focus on the good. Smile and laugh more. Life is short, and the world is small – but it’s really wide.” – Robin Sharma
47. “Delete what needs to be eliminated from your life.”
48. “Don’t stop until you are proud.”
49. “The reality of life is a single-player game. You are born alone. You are going to die alone. All your interpretations are alone.”
50. “There may be a retirement age at work, but there is no retirement age in life.”
Inspiring Life Quotes to Live by
51. “Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change.”- James Clear
52. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.”- The Dhammapada
53. “If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”- David Bowie
54. “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”- William Morris
55. “When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.”- Atomic Habits, James Clear
56. “He who angers you, conquers you.”- Elizabeth kenny
57. “The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”- Marc Andreeson
58. “The goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!”- Ashley Montagu
59. “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”- Albert Camus
60. “Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much.”- Simon Weil
61. “I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”- Jeanette Winterson
62. “You have to show up before inspiration will.”- James Clear
63. “Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.”- Ray Bradbury
64. “The more time you spend complaining about what you deserve, the less time you have to focus on what you can create. Focus on what you can control.”- James Clear
65. “May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.”- Mary Oliver
66. “There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”- Marion Milner
67. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won’t exist because you’ll have already shut it out… You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.”- May Jamison
68. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
69. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
70. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein
71. “Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take action. Take action and your feelings will change.”- Barbara Baron
72. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
73. “The best climber in the world is the one who’s having the most fun.”- Alex Lowe
74. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
75. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Life Quotes
76. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
77. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
78. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
79. “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”- Paulo Coelho
80. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”- Epicurus
81. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” — Neil Armstrong
82. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”- Carl Jung
83. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
84. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
85. “The myth is that there isn’t enough time. There is plenty of time. There isn’t enough focus with the time you have. You win by directing your attention toward better things.”- James Clear
Deep Quotes About Life
86. “It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”- Jeanette Winterson
87. “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”- Hellen Keller
88. “A good apology is like an antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”- Randy Pauch
89. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”- Lena Horne
90. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”- Charles Kingsley
91. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett
92. “If it costs you your peace it’s too expensive”- Paulo Coelho
93. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
94. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
95. “Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is just shorthand for the thing being “not important enough” or “not a priority.” Busy is not a badge. You don’t find the time to make things, you make the time to do things.”- Debbie Millman
96. “Stop learning, die young. Keep learning, stay young.”- James Clear
97. “One of the simplest ways to win is to always connect the small things you do to the larger thing you hope to accomplish.
98. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
99. “Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren’t smart enough to doubt themselves.”- Ed Latimore
100. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.”- Diane Ackerman
Inspiring Quotes on Life
101. “Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”- Wez Angellozi
102. “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”- William Osler
103. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”- William Hazlit
104. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”- Wayne Dyer
105. “Simple mindset shifts:
– I’m not hurt, I’m healing.
– I’m not losing, I’m learning.
– I was not rejected, I was redirected.
Negative things happen. Negative mindsets make them harder.”- James Clear
106. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”- Freya Stark
107. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.”- Annie Dillard
108. “The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”- Kevin kelly
109. “As a child, I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not telling the truth is more painful and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”- June Jordan
110. “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”- Madeleine L’Engle
111. “It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person’s life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
112. “Almost everybody can stay excited for 2 or 3 months. A few people can stay excited for 2 or 3 years. But a winner will stay excited for 30 years or however long it takes to win.”- Art Williams
113. “The advice shouldn’t be to act your age. It should be to act your spirit. Your age may try to prohibit you from dancing like that, or starting over, or trying something new. But your spirit would never do such a thing. If something feels aligned, your spirit wants you to go for it, whether you’re 15 or 85. Acting your age makes you fit in more, while acting your spirit will indeed cause you to stand out—in a bad way to people who act their age, but in an inspiring way to those who act their spirit. Try acting your spirit from time to time, and you can see for yourself which path makes you feel more alive.”- Light watkins
114. “When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, the worst you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it.”- Sasha Aikin
115. “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”- Vernon Howard
116. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”- Theodore Roosevelt
117. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'”- Sydney J Harris
118. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”- Roy T Bennete
119. “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” – Naval Ravikant
120. “Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.”- Michelle Obama
121. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”- Margaret Michelle
122. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”- Mae West
123. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”- Louise Hay
124. “The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”- Richard Powers
125. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou
Life quotes to reflect on
126. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” —Mahatma Gandhi
127. “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”- Bell Hooks
128. “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”- Shakti Gawain
129. “In school, you are graded on every test—even if it’s your weakest subject.
In life, you can choose the tests you take—even if they always play to your strengths.
Maintain a baseline so your weak areas don’t hold you back, but design your life so you are graded on your strengths.”- James Clear
130. “The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.”- Erik Naggum
131. “Life is a series of seasons, and what works in one season may not work in the next.
What season are you in right now? What habits does that season require?”- James Clear
132. “Think of many things. Do one.”- Portugese Proverb
133. “I believe in anger. Anger’s like fire, it can burn out all the dross and leave some positive things. But what I don’t believe in is bitterness. Forgiveness is imperative because you don’t want to carry that weight around, who needs to? And it will throw you down. It doesn’t help you to live life. I don’t make myself vulnerable if I can help it.”- Maya Angelo
134. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
135. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …” – Steve Jobs
136. “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”- John Kenneth Galbraith
137. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”- Tallulah Bankhead
138. “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”- Richard Feynman
139. “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”- Mary Oliver
140. “Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.
Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.- James Clear
141. “You can usually accomplish more by giving something your full effort for a few years rather than giving it a lukewarm effort for fifty years.Pick a priority for this season of your life and do it to the best of your ability.”- James Clear
142. Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
143. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
144. “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney
145. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda
146. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — Seneca
147. “There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.”- Hindu proverb
148. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
149. “Boredom is a tremendous indicator. Your energy goes; it caves in on you; you can’t do anything. That’s very frightening but you must listen because you are being told that whatever it is you are doing is not quite right. It may only need a small adjustment or it may need more drastic treatment.”- Bridget Riley
150. “To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor.”- Zhuangzi
151. “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
So these were the best Life quotes to make you feel inspired
I hope these 50 inspirational quotes on life help you achieve your dreams.
These are not only mere words, but if you practice these quotes in your daily lives, then it will bring a great change in your life.
These are life’s blueprints from some of the greatest people who changed their life and I am sure they will surely change yours.
