Sometimes you don’t have to use many words to get your point across.

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In fact, keeping it short and simple can make what you’re saying extra powerful and memorable.

This is of course nothing new.

It’s something that’s many of the wisest people in history have kept in mind over thousands of years.

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And today I want to share some of that sharp and quick wisdom.

This is 201 short and inspirational quotes about life and on how to make it a good, happy, loving and successful one from the past 2400 years.

I hope these quotes will give you a boost when you need it the most.

[Note: the original version of this post contained 101 short quotes but it has now been updated with 100 additional quotes in a few new categories like, for example, short funny quotes.]

Short and Meaningful Quotes about Happiness

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Confucius

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
— Lucille Ball

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
— Dennis Waitley

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
— Seneca

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
— Seneca

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
— Dr. Robert Anthony

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
— Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Happiness is a state of activity.”
— Aristotle

“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
— Epictetus

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
— Aesop

“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

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
— Winnie the Pooh

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
— Heraclitus

Short and Inspiring Quotes about Love

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides

“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway

“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”
— Erich Fromm

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac

Short and Motivational Quotes about Success

Positive Life Quotes

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

Quotes Life Challenges

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

Short Self-Esteem Quotes to Help You to Feel Good About Yourself

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
– Brigham Young

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley

“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel

“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou

“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

Short Funny Quotes (When You Need a Quick Laugh)

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
– Roy Orbison

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
– Scott Adams

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
– Steven Wright

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein

“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”
– Jay Leno

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
– Will Rogers

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
– Zach Galifianakis

“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
– Bill Murray

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
–Tom Clancy

“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
– Josh Billings

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

Short Quotes about Staying Strong When Times are Tough

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
– LeBron James

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
– Oprah

“You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
– John Wooden

“Concentration is the secret of strength.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
– Og Mandino

”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Stress is caused by being ‘here' but wanting to be ‘there.'
– Eckhart Tolle

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
– R. G. Ingersoll

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia

Short and Inspiring Friendship Quotes

“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”’
– Socrates

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

Short Inspirational Quotes for Work (to Help You Work Hard and Smart)

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes Life

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
– Seneca

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life Quotes and Sayings

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Quotes Life Changes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

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

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Life may not be the we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed
suffering. The secret wisdom is,
'Life is not supposed to be fair.'
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

The River of Life has no meaning - no good, no bad,
no better, no worse, no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life Quotes

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [attributed]

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Let today be a day to face life with courage,
with faith, and with a light heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happen as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

Love, real love, powers everything good.
Let your life be an expression of your love of God,
your love of all people around the world, and
your love of all God's other creations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

Quotes and Sayings about Life

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

The Best Quotes In Life

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.
- The Buddha

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

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
-Joseph Campbell

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

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

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

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
-Ernest Holmes

Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life Sayings

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life, and
smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
-Meister Eckhart

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-Oscar Wilde

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Quotes about Life

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
'I will try again tomorrow.'
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes and Sayings

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Sayings And Quotes About Life

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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