1000 Life Quotes That Will Motivate and Inspire You

Inspirational Life Quotes

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

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
2. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
3. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
4. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
5. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon
6. "Get busy living or get busy dying." – Stephen King
7. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
8. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison
9. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." – Albert Einstein
10. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." – Babe Ruth
11. "Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there." – Will Smith
12. "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs
13. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing." – Seneca
14. "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." – Henry Ford
16. "In order to write about life first you must live it." – Ernest Hemingway
17. "The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."– Frank Sinatra
18. "Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." – Leo Burnett
19. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." – Søren Kierkegaard
20. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
21. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
22. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." – Dolly Parton
23. "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
24. "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." – Ashton Kutcher
25. "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." – Kobe Bryant
26. "I like criticism. It makes you strong." – LeBron James
27. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." – George Clooney
28. "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
29. "Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated." – Confucius
30. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Helen Keller
31. "My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." – Forrest Gump
32. "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
33. "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." – Neil Armstrong
34. "Live for each second without hesitation." – Elton John
35. "Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." – Sarah Louise Delany
36. "Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
37. "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." – Charles Swindoll
38. "Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about." – Marilyn Monroe
39. "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." – Buddha
40. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." – Dr. Seuss
41. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." – Mark Twain
42. "Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny." – Stephen Hawking
43. "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
45. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse
46. "I failed my way to success." – Thomas Edison
47. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
48. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." – Tony Robbins
49. "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." – Mother Teresa
50. "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." – Grandma Moses
51. "It's not about how hard you can hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." – Rocky Balboa
52. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
53. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
54. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Dennis P. Kimbro
55. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln
56. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." – Michael Jordan
57. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh
58. "Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
59. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." – Albert Einstein
60. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
61. "Life is short, and it is here to be lived." – Kate Winslet
62. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life." – Charles R. Swindoll
63. "The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra
64. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
65. "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
66. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." – Elbert Hubbard
67. "I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth." – Doug Hutchison
68. "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
69. "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." – Charles Darwin
70. "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." – Eleanor Roosevelt
71. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it." – Henry Ford
72. "In order to write about life first you must live it." – Ernest Hemingway
73. "The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything." – Frank Sinatra
74. "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
75. "Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." – Leo Burnett
76. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." – Søren Kierkegaard
77. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey
78. "The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn
79. "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
80. "Life is short, and it is here to be lived." – Kate Winslet
81. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life." – Charles R. Swindoll
82. "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." – John Lennon
83. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius
84. "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." – Oliver Goldsmith
85. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." – Albert Einstein
86. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde
87. "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller
88. "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
89. "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
90. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller
91. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." – Aristotle Onassis
92. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." – Anne Frank
93. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
95. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
96. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison
97. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." – Dr. Seuss
98. "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." – Eleanor Roosevelt
99. "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." – John Lennon
100. "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." – Margaret Mead

Love and Relationships

1. "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
2. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn
3. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." – Maya Angelou
4. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
5. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller
6. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle
8. "We loved with a love that was more than love." – Edgar Allan Poe
9. "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed." – Valerie Lombardo
10. "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." – Max Muller
11. "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." – Blaise Pascal
12. "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." – Karl Menninger
13. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." – Plato
14. "Where there is love there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
15. "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
16. "The best proof of love is trust." – Joyce Brothers
17. "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." – Loretta Young
18. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
19. There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." – Bryant H. McGill
20. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." – Victor Hugo
21. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." – Nicholas Sparks
22. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." – T. Tolis
23. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." – Janos Arnay
24. "Love is a game that two can play and both win." – Eva Gabor
25. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." – Robert Frost
26. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
27. "A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other." – Unknown
28. "Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." – Osho
29. "You don't marry someone you can live with – you marry the person you cannot live without." – Unknown
30. "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." – Andre Breton
31. "Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones
32. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." – Oscar Wilde
33. "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." – Albert Ellis
34. "Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me." – Beyoncé
35. "Love is not a volunteer thing." – Samuel Richardson
36. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." – Vincent van Gogh
37. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." – Voltaire
38. "Love is not what you say. Love is what you do." – Unknown
39. "Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect." – Unknown
40. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." – Mignon McLaughlin
41. "Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other." – Felix Adler
42. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." – Peter Ustinov
43. "The first duty of love is to listen." – Paul Tillich
44. "Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." – Barbara De Angelis
45. "The giving of love is an education in itself." – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. "The more one judges, the less one loves." – Honore de Balzac
47. "Love is the beauty of the soul." – Saint Augustine
48. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
49. "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." – Ingrid Bergman
51. "Love is a better teacher than duty." – Albert Einstein
52. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
53. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." – Eden Ahbez
54. "Love is the flower; you've got to let it grow." – John Lennon
55. "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." – William Saroyan
56. "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." – Percy Bysshe Shelley
57. "We are most alive when we're in love." – John Updike
58. "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
59. "Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you." – Dolly Parton
60. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." – Friedrich Nietzsche
61. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
62. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn
63. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." – Mother Teresa
64. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss
65. "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." – Loretta Young
66. "A simple 'I love you' means more than money." – Frank Sinatra
67. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones
68. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
69. "Love is not about possession, it's all about appreciation." – Chinese Proverb
70. "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." – Karl Menninger
71. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." – Peter Ustinov
72. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." – Victor Hugo
73. "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." – Andre Breton
74. "The best proof of love is trust." – Joyce Brothers
75. "True love stories never have endings." – Richard Bach
76. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." – Robert A. Heinlein
77. "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing." – Torquato Tasso
78. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë
79. "Love is a game that two can play and both win." – Eva Gabor
80. "A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies." – Unknown
81. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." – David Wilkerson
82. "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." – Morrie Schwartz
83. "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
84. "Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
85. "Intense love does not measure, it just gives." – Mother Teresa
86. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous." – Ingrid Bergman
87. "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
88. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." – Mignon McLaughlin
89. "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." – Madonna
90. "The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are." – J.K. Simmons
91. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." – Charles Dickens
92. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." – Henry David Thoreau
93. "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." – Jean Anouilh
94. "Love is what you've been through with somebody." – James Thurber
95. "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
96. "Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy." – Unknown
97. "To love is to burn, to be on fire." – Jane Austen
98. "Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were." – Moliere
99. "Love is a friendship set to music." – Joseph Campbell
100. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." – Nat King Cole

Humorous Life Quotes

1. "Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." – Tom Lehrer
2. "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." – Steven Wright
3. "I intend to live forever. So far, so good." – Steven Wright
4. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." – Mark Twain
5. "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." – Steve Martin
6. "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." – Oscar Wilde
7. "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." – Mitch Hedberg
8. "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey
9. "Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese." – Billie Burke
10. "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure." – Unknown
11. "Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth." – Unknown
12. "I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown
13. "To err is human; to admit it, superhuman." – Doug Larson
14. "I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down." – Unknown
15. "I am on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it." – Unknown
16. "Doing nothing is hard, you never know when you're done." – Unknown
17. "If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." – Earl Wilson
18. "My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that." – Stewart Francis
19. "I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort." – Zach Galifianakis
20. "Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" – Robin Williams
21. "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." – Billy Wilder
22. "I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll be glad to make an exception." – Groucho Marx
23. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." – Steven Wright
24. "Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back." – Oscar Wilde
25. "The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets." – Al McGuire
26. "I'm not insane. My mother had me tested." – Sheldon Cooper, "The Big Bang Theory"
27. "If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?" – George Carlin
28. "I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." – Steven Wright
29. "All generalizations are false, including this one." – Mark Twain
30. "I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious." – Michael Scott, "The Office"
31. "My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne." – Tina Fey
32. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." – Woody Allen
33. "Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." – Sam Levenson
34. "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." – Fred Allen
35. "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you." – Steven Wright
36. "I was addicted to the hokey pokey… but thankfully, I turned myself around." – Unknown
37. "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." – Socrates
38. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." – Charles M. Schulz
39. "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer." – Douglas Adams
40. "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." – Charles Dudley Warner
41. "If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?" – Cynthia Heimel
42. "I’m writing a book on reverse psychology. Please don’t buy it." – Unknown
43. "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." – Laurence J. Peter
44. "I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong." – Harvey Specter, "Suits"
45. "If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it." – Unknown
46. "I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug." – Unknown
47. "I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode." – Unknown
48. "I’m not arguing. I’m simply explaining why I’m right." – Unknown
49. "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it." – Unknown
50. "When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic." – Unknown
51. "I'm great at multitasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once." – Unknown
52. "The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." – Unknown
53. "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." – Dalai Lama
54. "I don't need a hair stylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning." – Unknown
55. "I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown
56. "I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life." – Unknown
57. "I'm not weird! I'm a limited edition." – Unknown
58. "I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass." – David Lee Roth
59. "I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house." – Zsa Zsa Gabor
60. "I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like five or six times, you know, just to be sure." – Unknown
61. "I'm not lazy, I'm just very relaxed." – Unknown
62. "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." – Winnie the Pooh
63. "I have a lot of jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work." – Unknown
64. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." – Albert Einstein
65. "I am currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks me out too. But the possibilities are endless!" – Unknown
66. "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you." – Steven Wright
67. "The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron." – Phyllis Diller
68. "I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down." – Unknown
69. "When life closes a door, just open it again. It’s a door, that’s how they work." – Unknown
70. "I'm not running away from hard work, I'm too lazy to run." – Unknown
71. "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
72. "I finally realized that people are prisoners of their phones... that's why it's called a 'cell' phone." – Unknown
73. "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." – Luis Buñuel
74. "If you're not supposed to eat at night, why is there a light bulb in the refrigerator?" – Unknown
75. "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
76. "I’m on that new diet where you eat everything and hope for a miracle." – Unknown
77. "I'm not a procrastinator. I'm just extremely productive at unimportant things." – Unknown
78. "If life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye." – Cathy Guisewite
79. "By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong." – Charles Wadsworth
80. "Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?" – Steven Wright
81. "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes." – Unknown
82. "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." – Lily Tomlin
83. "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" – Steven Wright
84. "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." – Oscar Wilde
85. "If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments." – Steven Wright
86. "I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." – Mark Twain
87. "Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" – Robin Williams
88. "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" – Edgar Bergen
89. "I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." – Charles Lamb
90. "Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." – Charles M. Schulz
91. "I’m not speaking to myself, I’m having a staff meeting." – Unknown
92. "If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out." – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
93. "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." – Will Rogers
94. "I'm not great at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?" – Chandler Bing, "Friends"
95. "I want to be like a caterpillar. Eat a lot, sleep for a while, wake up beautiful." – Unknown
96. "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
97. "If at first you don’t succeed, then maybe you should do it the way I told you to in the beginning." – Unknown
98. "I have a new hairstyle today, it’s called 'I tried.'" – Unknown
99. "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." – Betty Reese
100. "My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do." – Unknown

Philosophical Life Quotes

1. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
2. "To be is to do." – Socrates
3. "I think, therefore I am." – René Descartes
4. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
5. "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." – Socrates
6. "The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." – Thomas Hobbes
7. "Liberty consists in doing what one desires." – John Stuart Mill
8. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." – Marcus Aurelius
9. "He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors." – Martin Heidegger
10. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
11. "Man is condemned to be free." – Jean-Paul Sartre
12. "God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him." – Friedrich Nietzsche
13. "One cannot step twice in the same river." – Heraclitus
14. "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." – Jeremy Bentham
15. "To do is to be." – Jean-Paul Sartre
16. "Hell is other people." – Jean-Paul Sartre
17. "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." – Socrates
18. "Even while they teach, men learn" – Seneca the Younger
19. "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." – Baruch Spinoza
20. "Leisure is the mother of philosophy." – Thomas Hobbes
21. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination." – Immanuel Kant
22. "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." – John Locke
23. "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
24. "He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears." – Michel De Montaigne
25. "All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?" – Friedrich Nietzsche
26. "Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward." – Søren Kierkegaard
27. "To live alone is the fate of all great souls." – Arthur Schopenhauer
28. "The mind is everything; what you think you become." – Buddha
29. "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." – Socrates
30. "Virtue is nothing but a right reason." – Seneca
31. "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire." – Epictetus
32. "In everything, there is a share of everything." – Anaxagoras
33. "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion." – Francis Bacon
34. "The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures." – Democritus
35. "Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature." – John Locke
36. "To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character." – Aristotle
37. "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." – Seneca
38. "He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive." – Seneca
39. "The measure of a man is what he does with power." – Plato
40. "Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." – Bertrand Russell
41. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." – Ludwig Wittgenstein
42. "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." – William of Ockham
43. "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing." – Socrates
44. "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." – Søren Kierkegaard
45. "Man is the measure of all things." – Protagoras
46. "We live in the best of all possible worlds." – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
47. "Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative." – Aristotle
48. "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free." – Aristotle
49. "The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone." – John Locke
50. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw
51. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." – Voltaire
52. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
53. "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not." – Blaise Pascal
54. "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
55. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?" – Friedrich Nietzsche
56. "I can, therefore I am." – Simone Weil
57. "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." – Albert Camus
58. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." – Albert Einstein
59. "Life without experience and sufferings is not life." – Socrates
60. "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – Plato
61. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch
62. "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." – Socrates
63. "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others." – Socrates
64. "It is not living that matters, but living rightly." – Socrates
65. "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." – Socrates
66. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
67. "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." – Socrates
68. "There is nothing permanent except change." – Heraclitus
69. "You cannot step into the same river twice." – Heraclitus
70. "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus
71. "Much learning does not teach understanding." – Heraclitus
72. "Everything flows, nothing stands still." – Heraclitus
73. "The only constant in life is change." – Heraclitus
74. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." – Aristotle
75. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle
76. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle
77. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
78. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle
79. "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
80. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle
81. "He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader." – Aristotle
82. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." – Aristotle
83. "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." – Aristotle
84. "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." – Aristotle
85. "To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." – Aristotle
86. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." – Aristotle
87. "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." – Aristotle
88. "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
89. "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free." – Aristotle
90. "The secret to humor is surprise." – Aristotle
91. "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." – Aristotle
92. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
93. "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." – Aristotle
94. "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." – Aristotle
95. "The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." – Aristotle
96. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." – Aristotle
97. "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." – Aristotle
98. "There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." – Aristotle
99. "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." – Aristotle
100. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." – Aristotle

Success and Ambition Quotes

1. "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
2. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
3. "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." – Bill Bradley
4. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
5. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
6. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney
7. "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
8. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
9. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson
10. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." – Conrad Hilton
11. "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." – Tony Robbins
12. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." – Napoleon Hill
13. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier
14. "Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
15. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
16. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." – Florence Nightingale
17. "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
18. "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
19. "To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." – Mike Gafka
20. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
21. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh
22. "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." – Bobby Unser
23. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do." – Steve Jobs
24. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser
25. "Don't be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone." – Andy Biersack
26. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
27. "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." – Mark Twain
28. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." – Colin R. Davis
29. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." – Maya Angelou
30. "The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra
31. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – David Brinkley
32. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
33. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." – Arnold H. Glasow
34. "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill
35. "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything." – Warren Buffett
36. "Success is not in what you have, but who you are." – Bo Bennett
37. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." – Steve Jobs
38. "The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles." – Unknown
39. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." – George Bernard Shaw
40. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." – George S. Patton
41. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." – James Cameron
42. "The secret to success is constancy to purpose." – Benjamin Disraeli
43. "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
44. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." – Michael John Bobak
45. "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." – Aisha Tyler
46. "Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it." – Mark Zuckerberg
47. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." – Ayn Rand
48. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." – Albert Einstein
49. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." – Henry Kravis
50. "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
51. "When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." – Paulo Coelho
52. "A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work." – Colin Powell
53. "Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go." – Unknown
54. "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
55. "Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives." – Michelle Obama
56. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." – Pablo Picasso
57. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
58. "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." – W. P. Kinsella
59. "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." – Nikos Kazantzakis
60. "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." – Aristotle Onassis
61. "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." – Aisha Tyler
62. "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." – John D. Rockefeller
63. "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
64. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." – Bruce Lee
65. "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
66. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston S. Churchill
67. "Success is not in what you have, but who you are." – Bo Bennett
68. "The road to success is always under construction." – Lily Tomlin
69. "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
70. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." – Bill Gates
71. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." – Joyce Brothers
72. "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." – Mark Twain
73. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." – Arthur Ashe
74. "The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance." – Sun Yat-sen
75. "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." – Colin Powell
76. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." – Oprah Winfrey
77. "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." – Dalai Lama
78. "The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda." – John C. Maxwell
79. "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
80. "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
81. "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." – Jim Rohn
82. "The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." – Dale Carnegie
83. "I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful." – Calvin Klein
84. "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." – Zig Ziglar
85. "The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves." – Barbara Corcoran
86. "I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan
87. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison
88. "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." – Benjamin Disraeli
89. "The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration." – Babe Didrikson Zaharias
90. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." – Coco Chanel
91. "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
92. "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." – Mark Twain
93. "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." – Brian Tracy
94. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." – George Edward Woodberry
95. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." – General George Patton
96. "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
97. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." – Napoleon Hill
98. "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." – Bill Bradley
99. "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
100. 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

1. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult
2. "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche
3. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
4. "You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius
5. "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." – Robert Jordan
6. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Khalil Gibran
7. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway
8. "Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." – Nelson Mandela
9. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi
10. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling
11. "Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
12. "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley
13. "Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway
14. "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." – Albert Camus
15. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston S. Churchill
16. "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." – Christopher Reeve
17. "It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop." – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
18. "She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." – Elizabeth Edwards
19. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
20. "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
21. "When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience." – Jaeda Dewalt
22. "Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up." – Anonymous
23. "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." – Carl Jung
24. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill
25. "He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." – Lao Tzu
26. "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on." – Henry Rollins
27. "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi
28. "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
29. "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
30. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt
31. "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
32. "Resilience is the ability to attack while running away." – Wes Fesler
33. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." – Haruki Murakami
34. "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
35. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
36. "Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility." – Anonymous
37. "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." – Maya Angelou
38. "Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong." – Sarah Dessen
39. "Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting to be tested; it is a muscle, you develop it every day." – Anonymous
40. "Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness." – Susan Gale
41. "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
42. "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths." – Drew Barrymore
43. "My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon." – Mizuta Masahide
44. "Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before." – Elizabeth Edwards
45. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Viktor Frankl
46. "Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is." – Seth Godin
47. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." – Helen Keller
48. "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
49. "A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure." – Henry Kissinger
50. "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
51. "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
52. "It's not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." – J.R.R. Tolkien
53. "A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." – Jim Watkins
54. "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
55. "The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat." – Woodrow Wilson
56. "Resilience is about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive." – Jamais Cascio
57. "You have to be able to accept failure to get better." – Lebron James
58. "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." – Harry Golden
59. "The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost
60. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin
61. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
62. "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." – Bernard Williams
63. "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
64. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
65. "You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things." – Ken Kesey
66. "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene
67. "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength." – Oprah Winfrey
68. "I like criticism. It makes you strong." – LeBron James
69. "In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." – Sun-Tzu
70. "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." – Leonard Cohen
71. "The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." – William Ellery Channing
72. "Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." – Frederick Douglass
74. "Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." – Albert Camus
75. "Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks, adapt well to change, and keep going in the face of adversity." – Harvard Business Review
76. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill
77. "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
78. "Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong." – Sarah Dessen
79. "Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness." – Susan Gale
80. "Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory." – William Barclay
81. "A brave man acknowledges the strength of others." – Veronica Roth
82. "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." – Rumi
83. "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." – Gail Sheehy
84. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi
85. "The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping-stone to greatness." – Shawn Anchor
86. "Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." – Zig Ziglar
87. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." – Albert Einstein
88. "The more you care, the stronger you can be." – Jim Rohn
89. "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." – Winston Churchill
90. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
91. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." – Francis Bacon
92. "The key to life is resilience. We will always be knocked down. It's the getting up that counts." – Dominique Browning
93. "The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground." – Anonymous
94. "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." – Lena Horne
95. "You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley
96. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
97. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Robert H. Schuller
98. "Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." – Stephen R. Covey
99. "Courage is grace under pressure." – Ernest Hemingway
100. "Adversity is the first path to truth." – Lord Byron

Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes

1. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
2. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating." – Kofi Annan
3. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." – Albert Einstein
4. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
5. "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." – Bruce Lee
6. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin
7. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle
8. "The only source of knowledge is experience." – Albert Einstein
9. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." – Isaac Asimov
10. "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." – Confucius
11. "Wisdom is not a product of education but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
12. "The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out." – Proverbs 18:15
13. "To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge." – Confucius
14. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." – Jimi Hendrix
15. "Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien
16. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle
17. "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance." – Benjamin Franklin
18. "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." – Anton Chekhov
19. "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." – Matsuo Basho
20. "Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested." – Guinean Proverb
21. "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
22. "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war." – Chinese Proverb
23. "In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information." – Anthony J. D'Angelo
24. "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." – Leonardo da Vinci
25. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia
27. "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." – Socrates
28. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." – William Shakespeare
29. "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it." – Lao Tzu
30. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." – Albert Einstein
31. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." – Doug Larson
32. "The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." – William James
33. "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing." – Socrates
34. "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." – Thomas J. Watson
35. "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." – Martin H. Fischer
36. "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." – René Descartes
37. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." – Stephen Hawking
38. "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." – Plato
39. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." – Albert Einstein
40. "Knowledge is the life of the mind." – Abu Bakr
41. "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." – Socrates
42. "Patience is the companion of wisdom." – Saint Augustine
43. "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one." – Occam’s Razor
44. "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." – Sophocles
45. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." – Marilyn vos Savant
46. "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." – Paul Engle
47. "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." – George Bernard Shaw
48. "Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination." – E. E. Cummings
49. "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." – Charles Spurgeon
50. "The true method of knowledge is experiment." – William Blake
51. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
52. "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." – Malcolm X
53. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
54. "Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." – Terry Goodkind
55. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle
56. "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." – Bruce Lee
57. "Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity." – Brian Rathbone
58. "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." – Plato
59. "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." – Henri Bergson
60. "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." – Miles Kington
61. "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." – Charles Spurgeon
62. "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." – David Bailey
63. "The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." – Herodotus
64. "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King
65. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
66. "Knowledge is the life of the mind." – Abu Bakr
67. "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
68. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin
69. "Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds." – Jewish Proverb
70. "Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand." – Guinean Proverb
71. "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." – Sandra Carey
72. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." – Henry David Thoreau
73. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." – Plato
74. "The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." – Tony Robbins
75. "In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." – Lord Chesterfield
76. "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." – Socrates
77. "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." – Socrates
78. "It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." – Julius Caesar
79. "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." – Marcus Garvey
80. "Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action." – Peter Senge
81. "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." – Martin H. Fischer
82. "The only enemy more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." – Albert Einstein
83. "The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds." – John F. Kennedy
84. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating." – Kofi Annan
85. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." – Albert Einstein
86. "One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known." – Crates
87. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." – Marilyn Vos Savant
88. "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." – James Baldwin
89. "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." – Ralph W. Sockman
90. "The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." – Confucius
91. "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." – Leonardo da Vinci
92. "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." – Confucius
93. "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
94. "The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
95. "Doubt is the key to knowledge." – Persian Proverb
96. "Knowledge expands your horizons and the ability to see beyond the obvious." – Anonymous
97. "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
98. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." – Alfred Lord Tennyson
99. "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it." – Lao Tzu
100. "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." – Peter Drucker

Self Discovery and Personal Growth Quotes

1. "The only journey is the journey within." – Rainer Maria Rilke
2. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle
3. "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." – Leonardo da Vinci
4. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." – Carl Jung
5. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." – Buddha
6. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. "Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." – Mandy Hale
8. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Henry Stanley Haskins
9. "He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." – Lao Tzu
10. "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." – Carl Jung
11. "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." – Max De Pree
12. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi
13. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde
14. "Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself." – Denis Waitley
15. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu
16. "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." – Alexis Carrel
17. "What you seek is seeking you." – Rumi
18. "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." – Suzy Kassem
19. "To find yourself, think for yourself." – Socrates
20. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. "Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness." – Jean Vanier
22. "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." – Chinese Proverb
23. "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through." – Anais Nin
24. "There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you." – Michelle Sandlin
25. "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." – Chuck Palahniuk
26. "You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow." – Idowu Koyenikan
27. "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." – Charles Du Bos
28. "The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself." – Myles Munroe
29. "Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits." – Alan Cohen
30. "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
31. "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
32. "Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful." – Buddha
33. "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." – Joseph Campbell
34. "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
35. "Becoming is better than being." – Carol S. Dweck
36. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin
37. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts
38. "Don't go through life, grow through life." – Eric Butterworth
39. "Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead." – Morihei Ueshiba
40. "What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." – Buddha
41. "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." – Carl Jung
42. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – E.E. Cummings
43. "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." – Deepak Chopra
44. "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair
45. "A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle." – Buddha
46. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." – James A. Froude
48. "We don’t grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges." – Joyce Meyer
49. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
50. "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
51. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll
52. "The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday." – Anonymous
53. "Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." – Steve Jobs
54. "It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not." – Denis Waitley
55. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha
56. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
57. "Growth is the only evidence of life." – John Henry Newman
58. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama
59. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
60. "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." – Robin Williams
61. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." – Elbert Hubbard
62. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
63. "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
64. "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." – Confucius
65. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
66. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." – Albert Einstein
67. "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington
68. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse
69. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." – Jane Goodall
70. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
71. "Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
72. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
73. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
75. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
76. "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." – Lao Tzu
77. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown
78. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." – Stephen Covey
79. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale
80. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
81. "What we think, we become." – Buddha
82. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
83. "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt
84. "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!" – Norman Vincent Peale
85. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." – Martin Luther King Jr.
86. "What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time." – Don Zimmer
87. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller
88. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." – Mother Teresa
89. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
90. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." – Thomas A. Edison
91. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." – Og Mandino
92. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." – Jimmy Dean
93. "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
94. "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." – W. Clement Stone
95. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt
96. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
97. "Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." – Jamie Paolinetti
98. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." – Rabindranath Tagore
99. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain
100. "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

1. "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama
2. "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." – William Saroyan
3. "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." – Margaret Lee Runbeck
4. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." – James M. Barrie
6. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." – Mahatma Gandhi
7. "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." – Abraham Lincoln
8. "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." – Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
9. "Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things." – Walt Disney
10. "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." – Henry Ward Beecher
11. "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." – Mark Twain
12. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." – Jim Rohn
13. "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open." – John Barrymore
14. "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." – Helen Keller
15. "Happiness is a warm puppy." – Charles M. Schulz
16. "The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go." – Dodinsky
17. "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
18. "Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." – Frank Tyger
19. "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. "The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything." – Anonymous
21. "Happiness is a direction, not a place." – Sydney J. Harris
22. "The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony." – V.S. Pritchett
23. "Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular." – Robert Frost
24. "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." – Charles Spurgeon
25. "Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed." – Unknown
26. "To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." – Albert Camus
27. "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
28. "The only joy in the world is to begin." – Cesare Pavese
29. "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them." – Steve Maraboli
30. "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." – George Burns
31. "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." – Eric Hoffer
32. "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
33. "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." – Benjamin Disraeli
34. "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." – Eleanor Roosevelt
35. "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." – Marthe Troly-Curtin
36. "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." – Napoleon Hill
37. "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch." – Ogden Nash
38. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle
39. "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
40. "Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object." – Hermann Hesse
41. "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." – Aristotle
42. "The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." – Richard Bach
43. "Happiness is not something you acquire; love is something that acquires you." – Leo Buscaglia
44. "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
45. "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." – Margaret Lee Runbeck
46. "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." – Abraham Lincoln
47. "The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage." – Thucydides
48. "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." – Ayn Rand
49. "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
50. "Happiness is the natural flower of duty." – Phillips Brooks
51. "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." – Thomas Merton
52. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up." – Mark Twain
53. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." – Jim Rohn
54. "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
55. "Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them." – Steve Maraboli
56. "The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage." – Carrie Jones
57. "True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self." – Joseph Addison
58. "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
59. "Happiness is a function of accepting what is." – Werner Erhard
60. "Happiness is not something you find, but something you create." – Unknown
61. "Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue." – Viktor E. Frankl
62. "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path." – Gautama Buddha
63. "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
64. "The secret to happiness is to love yourself." – Unknown
65. "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." – Aeschylus
66. "Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness." – Christian Dior
67. "Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." – Margaret Lee Runbeck
68. "Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." – Alexandre Dumas
69. "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." – Epictetus
70. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." – Immanuel Kant
71. "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." – Bertrand Russell
72. "Happiness is always a by-product of other activity." – Aldous Huxley
73. "Happiness is a form of courage." – Holbrook Jackson
74. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." – Victor Hugo
75. "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." – George Burns
76. "Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived." – Eleanor Roosevelt
77. "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open." – Rose Lane
78. "It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it." – Seneca
79. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius
80. "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." – Napoleon Hill
81. "Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." – Channing Pollock
82. "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." – Mildred Barthel
83. "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." – Thomas Jefferson
84. "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." – Aristotle
85. "Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result." – Robert Green Ingersoll
86. "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." – Don Marquis
87. "The art of happiness is to serve all." – Yogi Bhajan
88. "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
89. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." – Mahatma Gandhi
90. "Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else." – Dr. Idel Dreimer
91. "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love." – Baruch Spinoza
92. "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
93. "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
94. "Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others." – Henry Drummond
95. "The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today." – Charles W. Eliot
96. "All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." – Horace Friess
97. "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." – Douglas Jerrold
98. "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. "The only joy in the world is to begin." – Cesare Pavese
100. "Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience." – Leo Buscaglia

Life Lessons and Experience Quotes

1. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon
2. "The only source of knowledge is experience." – Albert Einstein
3. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost
4. "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." – John Dewey
5. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius
6. "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." – Oscar Wilde
7. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
9. "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." – Will Rogers
10. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll
11. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
12. "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." – Oliver Goldsmith
13. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
14. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
15. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison
16. "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." – Socrates
17. "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw
18. "It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
19. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
20. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." – Maya Angelou
21. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." – Tony Robbins
22. "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
23. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin
24. "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
25. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
26. "In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness." – Toba Beta
27. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
28. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse
29. "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
30. "Life is too important to be taken seriously." – Oscar Wilde
31. "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." – John Green
32. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
33. "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." – Elbert Hubbard
34. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." – Soren Kierkegaard
35. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
36. "Life is short, and it is here to be lived." – Kate Winslet
37. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey." – Victor Hugo
38. "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." – Robert Byrne
39. "The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." – Eli Khamarov
40. "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." – Sholom Aleichem
41. "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." – Charles Swindoll
42. "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" – Martin Luther King, Jr.
43. "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." – Brian Tracy
44. "Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed." – Corita Kent
45. "The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." – H.T. Leslie
46. "Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." – Ernest Holmes
47. "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
48. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." – Albert Einstein
49. "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
50. "In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back." – Charlie Brown
51. "Life's most valuable lessons are learned through experience, not just words." – Unknown
52. "Don’t count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali
53. "You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." – C.S. Lewis
54. "Life is a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy." – Unknown
55. "The best teacher in life is experience. It costs nothing but teaches everything." – Unknown
56. "Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it." – Buddha
57. "In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take." – Lewis Carroll
58. "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene
59. "Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die." – Tom Clancy
60. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." – Vernon Law
61. "Life without experience and sufferings is not life." – Socrates
62. "Life teaches us to make good use of time, while time teaches us the value of life." – Unknown
63. "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
64. "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
65. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde
66. "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." – Aldous Huxley
67. "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." – William James
68. "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this." – Henry Ford
69. "Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it." – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
70. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Helen Keller
71. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha
72. "The only disability in life is a bad attitude." – Scott Hamilton
73. "It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see." – Henry David Thoreau
74. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
75. "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." – William Wallace
76. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse
77. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." – Stephen Covey
78. "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." – Grandma Moses
79. "The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life." – Oprah Winfrey
80. "Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile." – Mark Twain
81. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." – Robert Frost
82. "In life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you believe, plan, and expect." – Bill Bartmann
83. "Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
84. "Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are." – Bernice Johnson Reagon
85. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill
86. "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
87. "The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today." – Les Brown
88. "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
89. "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." – William James
90. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." – William James
91. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey." – Victor Hugo
92. "Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being." – Kevin Kruse
93. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. "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
95. "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
96. "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
97. "You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." – Arthur Ashe
98. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
99. "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." – Oliver Goldsmith
100. "The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye." – Jimi Hendrix