Life, as beautiful as it is, can sometimes become really daunting and challenging. There will always be days where we feel unappreciated, disappointed, and defeated. If you’re currently feeling down, the below motivational quotes about life will encourage you to keep on going. Hang in there, warrior. There is always a rainbow after the rain.
Motivational Quotes About Life
1. Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. – Bradley Whitford
2. Good, better, best. never let it rest. ’til your good is better and your better is best. – St. Jerome
3. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
4. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
5. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Unknown
6. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone de Beauvoir
8. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
9. 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
10. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison
11. 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
12. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino
13. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
14. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. – Pope John XXIII
15. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
16. Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. – Stephen Hawking
17. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar
18. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
19. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. – Woodrow Wilson
20. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston
21. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. – Oprah Winfrey
22. Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don – Miguel Ruiz
23. There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
24. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockefeller
25. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. – Epictetus
26. Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen
27. There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive. – Oprah Winfrey
28. I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned. – Michael J. Fox
29. If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger―something that matters. – Blake Mycoskie
30. The self is made, not given. – Barbara Myerhoff
31. Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Mary Anne Radmacher
32. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
33. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. – Bryant H. McGill
34. What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. – Margaret Atwood
35. People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life. – John C. Maxwell
36. I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. – Steven Pinker
37. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
38. Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. – Washington Irving
39. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. – Denis Waitley
40. We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. – Mary Kay Ash
41. When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist. – Wayne Dyer
42. You can only became someone when You believe in your dreams and heart.
43. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton
44. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
45. Life is a series of baby steps. – Hoda Kotb
46. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. – Lucille Ball
47. Lead from the heart, not the head. – Princess Diana
48. Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years. – Meghan Markle
49. What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.
50. Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good. – Reese Witherspoon
51. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl
52. No one is you and that is your superpower.
53. To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone. – Roald Dahl
54. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
55. The best time for new beginnings is now.
56. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘”What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
57. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
58. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. – Maya Angelou
59. It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters. – Margaret Laurence
60. One day or day one. It’s your decision.
61. Embrace the glorious mess that you are. – Elizabeth Gilbert
62. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss
63. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
64. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. – Carol Burnett
65. A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
66. You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. – C.S. Lewis
67. Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life.
68. If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. – Beyonce
69. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
70. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
71. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey
72. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard
73. You’t don’t need twenty friends to say you have friends. Like most things in life, it’s quality over quantity. The less you have, the more you can take care of them. – Maxime Lagacé
74. The best friend you’ll find in your life is the friend that always come back to you, no matter what happened or how long it has been. – Maxime Lagacé
75. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. – Benjamin Franklin
76. Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself”. – C.S. Lewis
77. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis
78. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”. – A.A. Milne
79. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein
80. The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. – Jay McInerney
81. Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
82. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
83. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
84. Happiness is only real when shared. – Jon Krakauer
85. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson
86. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend. – Albert Camus
87. Love is the goal, life is the journey. – Osho
88. I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth. – Doug Hutchison
89. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James Baldwin
90. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
91. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz
92. Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
93. If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse
94. You either live a life of love, or a life of fear. The life of fear is the easiest one because you don’t risk anything. You simply protect. The toughest one is the life of love because you risk more. You give all you’ve got. The choice is yours. – Maxime Lagacé
95. There is love and respect for others. There is love and respect for yourself. Start with the latter. – Maxime Lagacé
96. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
97. It is not where we breathe, but where we love, that we live. – Soren Kierkegaard
98. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft
99. A drop of love can bring an ocean of tears. – Jewish Proverb
100. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
101. 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
102. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. – Blaise Pascal
103. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
104. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. – Leo Buscaglia
105. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. – David Wilkerson
106. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. – Benjamin Franklin
107. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. – Lao Tzu
108. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
109. Love is a better teacher than duty. – Albert Einstein
110. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
111. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
112. A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way. – Osho
113. See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself. – Mark Manson
114. Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore. – Mark Manson
115. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
116. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean
117. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. – Mark Twain
118. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
119. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. – Nelson Mandela
120. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”. – Audrey Hepburn
121. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
122. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
123. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
124. Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
125. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
126. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
127. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart
128. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. – George Whitefield
129. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll
130. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps
131. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth
132. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison
133. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis
134. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
135. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
136. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
137. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
138. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
139. If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
140. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. – John Wooden
141. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
142. If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
143. Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
144. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda
145. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
146. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
147. If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.
148. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
149. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. – Proverb
150. Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.
151. Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah
152. Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser
153. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein
154. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
155. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison
156. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it. – Kim Garst
157. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
158. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford
159. If you’re going through hell keep going. – Winston Churchill
160. The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
161. Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
162. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde
163. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
164. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein
165. When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. – Lolly Daskal
166. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
167. No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
168. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
169. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein
170. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
171. Do one thing every day that scares you.
172. What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.
173. Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – Lolly Daskal
174. Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
175. Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.