1000 Life Quotes That Will Motivate and Inspire You

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Inspirational Life Quotes

Here are 100 inspirational life quotes to motivate and uplift you:

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“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
“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 I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
“Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” – Hillary Clinton
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” – LeBron James
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” – George Clooney
“Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” – Celine Dion
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao-Tze
“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” – Neil Armstrong
“Live for each second without hesitation.” – Elton John
“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 ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
“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 about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
“I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
“It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” – Elbert Hubbard
“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.” – Doug Hutchison
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
“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 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 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 enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” – Joan Rivers
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“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 great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“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
“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
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead

Love and Relationships

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every day.” – Unknown
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal
“Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl Menninger
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. McGill
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arnay
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other.” – Unknown
“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person you cannot live without.” – Unknown
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Beyoncé
“Love is not a volunteer thing.” – Samuel Richardson
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
“Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.” – Unknown
“Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.” – Unknown
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
“The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
“Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” – Barbara De Angelis
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” – Honore de Balzac
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
“Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
“Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” – John Lennon
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac
“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” – Dolly Parton
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“Love is not about possession, it’s all about appreciation.” – Chinese Proverb
“Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl Menninger
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
“The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” – Torquato Tasso
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
“A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies.” – Unknown
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa
“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
“The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.” – J.K. Simmons
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.” – Unknown
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
“Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole

Humorous Life Quotes

“Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer
“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” – Steven Wright
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde
“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” – Mitch Hedberg
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey
“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.” – Billie Burke
“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not too sure.” – Unknown
“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” – Unknown
“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown
“To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.” – Doug Larson
“I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.” – Unknown
“I am on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.” – Unknown
“Doing nothing is hard, you never know when you’re done.” – Unknown
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
“My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.” – Stewart Francis
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.” – Zach Galifianakis
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” – Billy Wilder
“I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” – Groucho Marx
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” – Steven Wright
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” – Oscar Wilde
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire
“I’m not insane. My mother had me tested.” – Sheldon Cooper, “The Big Bang Theory”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” – George Carlin
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” – Steven Wright
“All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain
“I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” – Michael Scott, “The Office”
“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” – Tina Fey
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” – Woody Allen
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.” – Sam Levenson
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” – Fred Allen
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” – Steven Wright
“I was addicted to the hokey pokey… but thankfully, I turned myself around.” – Unknown
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” – Douglas Adams
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead already?” – Cynthia Heimel
“I’m writing a book on reverse psychology. Please don’t buy it.” – Unknown
“If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.” – Laurence J. Peter
“I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter, “Suits”
“If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it.” – Unknown
“I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.” – Unknown
“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown
“I’m not arguing. I’m simply explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown
“I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.” – Unknown
“When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.” – Unknown
“I’m great at multitasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.” – Unknown
“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Unknown
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
“I don’t need a hair stylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning.” – Unknown
“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown
“I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life.” – Unknown
“I’m not weird! I’m a limited edition.” – Unknown
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.” – David Lee Roth
“I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
“I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like five or six times, you know, just to be sure.” – Unknown
“I’m not lazy, I’m just very relaxed.” – Unknown
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – Winnie the Pooh
“I have a lot of jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work.” – Unknown
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
“I am currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks me out too. But the possibilities are endless!” – Unknown
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.” – Steven Wright
“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.” – Phyllis Diller
“I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.” – Unknown
“When life closes a door, just open it again. It’s a door, that’s how they work.” – Unknown
“I’m not running away from hard work, I’m too lazy to run.” – Unknown
“I’m not clumsy, it’s just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies, and the walls get in my way.” – Unknown
“I finally realized that people are prisoners of their phones… that’s why it’s called a ‘cell’ phone.” – Unknown
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” – Luis Buñuel
“If you’re not supposed to eat at night, why is there a light bulb in the refrigerator?” – Unknown
“I don’t need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I have friends for that.” – Unknown
“I’m on that new diet where you eat everything and hope for a miracle.” – Unknown
“I’m not a procrastinator. I’m just extremely productive at unimportant things.” – Unknown
“If life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” – Cathy Guisewite
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth
“Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?” – Steven Wright
“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” – Unknown
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.” – Steven Wright
“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” – Charles Lamb
“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” – Charles M. Schulz
“I’m not speaking to myself, I’m having a staff meeting.” – Unknown
“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
“I’m not great at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” – Chandler Bing, “Friends”
“I want to be like a caterpillar. Eat a lot, sleep for a while, wake up beautiful.” – Unknown
“I’m not saying I’m Wonder Woman, I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Wonder Woman in the same room.” – Unknown
“If at first you don’t succeed, then maybe you should do it the way I told you to in the beginning.” – Unknown
“I have a new hairstyle today, it’s called ‘I tried.'” – Unknown
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
“My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.” – Unknown

Philosophical Life Quotes

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“To be is to do.” – Socrates
“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” – Socrates
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” – John Stuart Mill
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.” – Martin Heidegger
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Man is condemned to be free.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“One cannot step twice in the same river.” – Heraclitus
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.” – Jeremy Bentham
“To do is to be.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
“Even while they teach, men learn” – Seneca the Younger
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.” – Thomas Hobbes
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” – John Locke
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” – Niccolò Machiavelli
“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne
“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“The mind is everything; what you think you become.” – Buddha
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
“Virtue is nothing but a right reason.” – Seneca
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.” – Epictetus
“In everything, there is a share of everything.” – Anaxagoras
“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.” – Francis Bacon
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.” – Democritus
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.” – John Locke
“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.” – Aristotle
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca
“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.” – Seneca
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Plato
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.” – Bertrand Russell
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” – William of Ockham
“The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.” – Socrates
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.” – Aristotle
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” – Aristotle
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.” – John Locke
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” – Voltaire
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus
“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“Life without experience and sufferings is not life.” – Socrates
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” – Socrates
“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” – Socrates
“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” – Socrates
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates
“There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
“You cannot step into the same river twice.” – Heraclitus
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus
“Much learning does not teach understanding.” – Heraclitus
“Everything flows, nothing stands still.” – Heraclitus
“The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” – Aristotle
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” – Aristotle
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.” – Aristotle
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” – Aristotle
“The secret to humor is surprise.” – Aristotle
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” – Aristotle
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” – Aristotle
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” – Aristotle
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” – Aristotle
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” – Aristotle
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

Success and Ambition Quotes

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” – Steve Jobs
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
“Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” – Andy Biersack
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasow
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
“The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
“The secret to success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
“A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.” – Unknown
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
“Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.” – Denzel Washington
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
“The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.” – Sun Yat-sen
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” – Dalai Lama
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell
“Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough, you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
“I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” – Calvin Klein
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” – Zig Ziglar
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.” – Babe Didrikson Zaharias
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

Resilience and Strength Quotes

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult
“What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” – Jaeda Dewalt
“Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” – Anonymous
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” – Henry Rollins
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fesler
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.” – Dalai Lama
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” – Anonymous
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
“Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting to be tested; it is a muscle, you develop it every day.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” – Mizuta Masahide
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.” – Seth Godin
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
“Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” – Travis Bradberry
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” – Henry Kissinger
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed
“Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
“It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Resilience is about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio
“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.” – Lebron James
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” – Bernard Williams
“No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or no matter how far you fall, you are never out of the fight.” – Marcus Luttrell
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.” – Ken Kesey
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” – LeBron James
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun-Tzu
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen
“The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” – William Ellery Channing
“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
“Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” – Albert Camus
“Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks, adapt well to change, and keep going in the face of adversity.” – Harvard Business Review
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” – Joel Osteen
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” – William Barclay
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” – Veronica Roth
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” – Gail Sheehy
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping-stone to greatness.” – Shawn Anchor
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
“The more you care, the stronger you can be.” – Jim Rohn
“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” – Winston Churchill
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon
“The key to life is resilience. We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts.” – Dominique Browning
“The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” – Anonymous
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lena Horne
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Adversity is the first path to truth.” – Lord Byron

Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.” – Kofi Annan
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
“Wisdom is not a product of education but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
“The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.” – Proverbs 18:15
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Confucius
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” – Anton Chekhov
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” – Matsuo Basho
“Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.” – Guinean Proverb
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” – Lao Tzu
“It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.” – Chinese Proverb
“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” – Lao Tzu
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James
“The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” – Martin H. Fischer
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – René Descartes
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” – Plato
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
“Knowledge is the life of the mind.” – Abu Bakr
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine
“The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.” – Occam’s Razor
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” – Sophocles
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant
“Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.” – Paul Engle
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.” – E. E. Cummings
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” – William Blake
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.” – Terry Goodkind
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” – Brian Rathbone
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” – Plato
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri Bergson
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” – Miles Kington
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” – David Bailey
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.” – Herodotus
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
“Knowledge is the life of the mind.” – Abu Bakr
“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.” – Howard Bloom
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.” – Jewish Proverb
“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” – Guinean Proverb
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” – Tony Robbins
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.” – Lord Chesterfield
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” – Socrates
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” – Socrates
“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” – Julius Caesar
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
“Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action.” – Peter Senge
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” – Martin H. Fischer
“The only enemy more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” – Albert Einstein
“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.” – John F. Kennedy
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.” – Kofi Annan
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” – Albert Einstein
“One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.” – Crates
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn Vos Savant
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” – Ralph W. Sockman
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Confucius
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Doubt is the key to knowledge.” – Persian Proverb
“Knowledge expands your horizons and the ability to see beyond the obvious.” – Anonymous
“The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” – Lao Tzu
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” – Peter Drucker

Self Discovery and Personal Growth Quotes

“The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry Stanley Haskins
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Jung
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Max De Pree
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” – Alexis Carrel
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.” – Anais Nin
“There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.” – Michelle Sandlin
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” – Charles Du Bos
“The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.” – Myles Munroe
“Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.” – Alan Cohen
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.” – Buddha
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“Becoming is better than being.” – Carol S. Dweck
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Don’t go through life, grow through life.” – Eric Butterworth
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” – Morihei Ueshiba
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
“A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle.” – Buddha
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
“We don’t grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Anonymous
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Denis Waitley
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” – John Henry Newman
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“What we think, we become.” – Buddha
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius

Happiness and Contentment Life Quotes

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” – Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
“The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.” – Anonymous
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” – V.S. Pritchett
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.” – Robert Frost
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” – Chinese Proverb
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” – Eric Hoffer
“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” – Napoleon Hill
“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.” – Ogden Nash
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” – L.M. Montgomery
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Hermann Hesse
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach
“Happiness is not something you acquire; love is something that acquires you.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” – Ayn Rand
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.” – Phillips Brooks
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” – Joseph Addison
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” – Werner Erhard
“Happiness is not something you find, but something you create.” – Unknown
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” – Viktor E. Frankl
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” – Gautama Buddha
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“The secret to happiness is to love yourself.” – Unknown
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus
“Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” – Christian Dior
“Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
“Happiness is always a by-product of other activity.” – Aldous Huxley
“Happiness is a form of courage.” – Holbrook Jackson
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” – Seneca
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” – Napoleon Hill
“Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.” – Channing Pollock
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” – Don Marquis
“The art of happiness is to serve all.” – Yogi Bhajan
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.” – Henry Drummond
“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.” – Charles W. Eliot
“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” – Horace Friess
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” – Douglas Jerrold
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
“Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience.” – Leo Buscaglia

Life Lessons and Experience Quotes

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” – Will Rogers
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” – Socrates
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“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 is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” – Toba Beta
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” – Eli Khamarov
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent
“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.” – H.T. Leslie
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” – Sai Baba
“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown
“Life’s most valuable lessons are learned through experience, not just words.” – Unknown
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
“Life is a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.” – Unknown
“The best teacher in life is experience. It costs nothing but teaches everything.” – Unknown
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.” – Buddha
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.” – Tom Clancy
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” – Vernon Law
“Life without experience and sufferings is not life.” – Socrates
“Life teaches us to make good use of time, while time teaches us the value of life.” – Unknown
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.” – Henry Ford
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“In life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you believe, plan, and expect.” – Bill Bartmann
“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.” – Les Brown
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
“Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” – Kevin Kruse
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negatives. And if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Unknown
“Life is not a ‘brief candle’. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw
“You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” – Arthur Ashe
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” – Jimi Hendrix

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