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Quotes about Life
Happiness & Positivity
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.
Smile more. Worry less.
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The best way to predict your future is to create it. Peter Drucker
Your vibe attracts your tribe.
Live each day as if your life has just begun. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Struggles & Resilience
Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Dan Reeves
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. John C. Maxwell
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Robert Tew
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. Jeanette Coron
Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller
Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
Scars show us where we’ve been. They do not dictate where we are going. David Rossi
You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
Every storm runs out of rain. Maya Angelou
Growth and comfort do not coexist. Ginni Rometty
Success & Motivation
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. Chris Grosser
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Suzy Kassem
Wisdom & Lessons
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t count the days, make the days count. Muhammad Ali
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
Love & Relationships
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
Where there is love, there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. It’s about how much you love each other every single day.
A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has lived them with you.
We are most alive when we are in love. John Updike
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey
Mindset & Self-Improvement
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.
Do what makes your soul shine.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive. Hafez
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. Roy T. Bennett
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Perspective & Gratitude
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Charles R. Swindoll
Appreciate what you have before it turns into what you had.
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin
Stop waiting for Friday. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you’re in now.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
Legacy & Meaning
Leave the world a little better than you found it. Robert Baden-Powell
Live your life as if you were to live forever and as if you were to die today.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. Ralph Marston
Your legacy is every life you’ve touched. Maya Angelou
A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. Muhammad
Courage & Fear
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. Winston Churchill
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on; it’s going on when you don’t have the strength. Napoleon Bonaparte
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. Nelson Mandela
Dreams & Goals
If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
Dream big and dare to fail. Norman Vaughan
A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
Time & Patience
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
Don’t waste your time looking back at what you’ve lost. Move on, for life is not meant to be traveled backward.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Arnold H. Glasow
Slow progress is still progress.
Kindness & Generosity
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
Do good, and good will come to you.
Faith & Hope
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. Christopher Reeve
God has a purpose for your pain, a reason for your struggle, and a reward for your faithfulness. Trust Him.
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. Suzanne Collins
When you focus on the good, the good gets better.
Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, joys and challenges, successes and failures. The wisdom found in these quotes serves as a guiding light, helping us navigate through life’s complexities with courage, hope, and purpose. When seeking motivation, encouragement, or a fresh perspective, the right words can inspire you to embrace each day with gratitude and determination.
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