Inspirational Quotes About Life

70+ Inspirational Quotes About Life 

It is not how long but how well we live that matters.

Jeremiah Say

Life is not a solo but a chorus. We live in relationships from cradle to grave.

Anon.

Life is worth living better than most men live it.

Anon.

Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no

tomorrows.

Anon.

Everything in life is a test of character.

John Blanchard

Life ought not merely to contain acts of worship, it should be an act of worship.

John Blanchard

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life

a life like yours, this earth would be God’s paradise.

Phillips Brooks

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Alexis Carrel

Life is too short to be small.

Benjamin Disraeli

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is

not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

What makes life dreary is absence of motive. What makes life complicated is

multiplicity of motive. What makes life victorious is singleness of motive.

George Eliot

Life is not measured by length but by depth. Birthdays tell us how long we have been

on the road, not how far we have travelled.

Vance Havner

Every man’s life is his opportunity of doing that which will make for him in eternity.

Matthew Henry

Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a

character and you reap a destiny.

William James

The most important thing in life is to live your life for something more important

than your life.

William James

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do

the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King

Make sure the thing you are living for is worth dying for.

Charles Mayes

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills.

Richard J. Needham

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler

The whole of life is a test, a trial of what is in us, so arranged by God himself.

William S. Plumer

We are not so to live as if we had nothing but a body.

J. C. Ryle

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you

find out why.

Mark Twain

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of

our passions.

Richard Steele

Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to

live.

James S. Stewart

Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be

sorry.

Mark Twain

No one can live well until they can die well.

David Watson

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

George Whitefield

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we

live.

Norman Cousins

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of

the real purpose of life.

Spiros Zodhiates

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.

Naval Ravikant

Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose

instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Roy T. Bennett

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset

you.

Stephanie Perkins

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and

change the ending.

C.S. Lewis

You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it

worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.

Stewart O’Nan

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.

Gary Keller

See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to

stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb

itself.

Mark Manson

Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever,

you just have to live.

Natalie Babbitt

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Most of life is about searching, it’s not about doing. People spend too much time

doing and not thinking about what they should be doing.

Naval Ravikant

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Carl Jung

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to

understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. But you can decide how

you’re going to live now.

Joan Baez

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

Neale Donald Walsch

It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we

have.

Fred Rogers

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and

then do it.

Henry Ford

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody

else.

Jeff Olson

It's not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.

Margaret Laurence

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Paulo Coelho

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

The less you give a damn to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Jeremiah Say

Don't give it five minutes if you're not going to give it five years.

Meghan Markle

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than

gratitude.

Anne Frank

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double.

Bobby Mcferrin

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.

David Russell

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but

must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life

spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some

passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, '"What are you doing for others?"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Mulan

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it.

Memory is sweet, cherish it.

Jeremiah Say

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by

altering his attitude.

William James

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same

world.

Wayne Dyer

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that

will do.

Osho

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for

others remain as your legacy.

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there

before.

Edwin Elliot

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could

miss it.

Ferris Bueller

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going

inward and letting go of it.

Carl Jung

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future

happiness.

Steve Maraboli

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Tony Robbins

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn

his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what

works.

Leonardo da Vinci

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Leo Buscaglia

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be

felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Take time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they

were the big things.

Robert Brault

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful

thing: that is enough for one man’s life.

T.S. Eliot

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for

there is no other way of learning how to live!

Alfred Adler

Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want

tomorrow.

Neil Strauss

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about

things.

Kenneth Branagh

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely,

divinely aware.

Henry Miller

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

Epictetus

If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing and the tutorial

is way too long.

Elon Musk

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Jack London