Life is a beautiful journey that should be enjoyed to the fullest every day.
That doesn’t mean you always wake up ready to seize the day, and sometimes you need a reminder that life is a wonderful gift. We can all use a little motivation and inspiration these days, whether it’s a funny quote from a famous celebrity or an encouraging message about giving it you are all from a successful business person.
Allow these 300 inspirational quotes about life to give you a boost whenever you need it. Keep these life quotes bookmarked on your phone or computer for easy access whenever you need a pick-me-up.
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
- “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.” – Steve Jobs
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
- “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
- “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
- “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.” – (Attributed to various sources)
- “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
- “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
- “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
- “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart
- “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
- “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
- “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
- “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
- “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
- “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
- “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
- “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)
- “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
- “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
- “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
- “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
- “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
- “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
- “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
- “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
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” —Neil Armstrong
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” —Bill Clinton
- “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet
- “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
- “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” —Malcolm Forbes
- “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” —Morris West
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
- “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
- “We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.” —Hillary Clinton
- “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash
- “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J. K. Rowling
- “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
- “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” —Jay-Z
- “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” —Tina Fey
- “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett
- “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Audrey Hepburn
- “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” —Ellen DeGeneres
- “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
- “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …” – Steve Jobs
- “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”– Buddha
- “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
- “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” — Anonymous
- “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
- “Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
- “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”-Socrates
- “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius
- “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is a content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”— Seneca
- “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
- “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
- “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.” — Derek Jeter
- “Don’t be afraid to fail. It’s not the end of the world, and in many ways, it’s the first step toward learning something and getting better at it.” — Jon Hamm
- “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
- “I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.” – Bradley Cooper
- “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney
- “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda
- “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone
- “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” – Chuck Norris (related: 0 Chuck Norris Jokes)
- “Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante
- “I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.” – Brad Pitt
- “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson
- “Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
- “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
- “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
- “There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.” — Rick Warren
- “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” — Elvis Presley
- “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” — Anne Frank
- “You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.” — Joel Osteen
- “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” — Jimmy Carter
- “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — Seneca
- “Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.” — Jennifer Aniston
- “Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Just disconnect. Once in a day sometimes, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.” — Yoda (Star Wars Quotes)
- “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha
- “Living an experience, a particular fate is accepting it fully.” — Albert Camus
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.” — Derek Jeter
- “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” —Vince Lombardi
- “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” — David DeNotaris
- “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” — Jennifer Aniston
- “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod
- “Find people who will make you better.” — Michelle Obama
- “As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” — Helen Keller
- “Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race.” — Paulo Braga
- “You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.” — Anonymous
- “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.” – T.D. Jakes
- “You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.” — Anonymous
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
- “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
- “You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Kim Kiyosaki
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.” — Anonymous
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” – Doctor Who
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “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
- “There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.” – Stephen Curry
- “Today, you have 00% of your life left.” – Tom Landry (Football Quotes)
- “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
- “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps
- You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. -Maya Angelou
- The greatest glory in living lies not in falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
- In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
- “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou
- Famous quote by Maya Angelou5. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” -Babe Ruth
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” -Oscar Wilde
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Tony Robbins
- “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -Albert Einstein
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -Mae West
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
- “May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” -Hans Christian Andersen
- “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” -John Wooden
- “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
- “Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.” —J.M. Barrie
- “My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.’” —George Clooney
- “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing.” —Katherine Mansfield
- “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” —Simone Biles
- “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! “—Jonathan Winters
- “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties out of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities out of his difficulties.” —Robert Mansell
- “My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.’” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- “What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?” —H.G. Wells
- “‘Don’t worry’ makes a better motto when you add ‘others.’” —Columbia Record
- “When you are actually powerful, you don’t need to be petty.” —Jon Stewart
- “None are so brave as the anonymous.” —K.K. Steincke
- “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” —Bertrand Russell
- “Nobody ever sees his own face in the glass What he observes there is a compound, divided into three parts: one part himself as he really is, one part representing what he expects to see, and a third part, what he wishes to behold” —Richard Burton
- “You are only young once after that you have to think up some other excuse” —Billy Arthur
- “No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized” —Will Durant
- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself” —Andy Warhol
- “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it” —Henry Ford
- “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands But, like the seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them reach your destiny” —Carl Schurz
- “The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money” —Mark Twain
- “It’s not necessary to take a person’s advice to make him feel good—all you have to do is ask it” —Richard Armour
- “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too they live inside us—and sometimes, they win” —Stephen King
- “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep” —Harry Ruby
- “The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness” —Lionel Barrymore
- “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length” —Robert Frost
- “Constant use will wear out anything—especially friends” —Warren Hull
- “Don’t say you can’t until you prove you can’t” —Les Paul
- “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans” —Allen Saunders
- “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you” —Aldous Huxley
- “You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why” —Joseph Mayer
- “Worry is like sand in an oyster: a little produces a pearl, too much kills the animal” —Marcelene Cox
- “People who complain that they don’t get all they deserve should congratulate themselves” —The Irish Times
- “I have this rule I live by Only do what you can do that means you’re never looking outside for what’s popular; you’re always looking inside for what’s true” —Delia Ephron
- “The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment” —TH White
- “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength” —AJ Cronin
- “Schedule all you’re worrying for a specific half-hour about the middle of the day then take a nap during this period” —Peterborough, Ont, Examiner
- “One good way to test your memory is to try to remember the things that worried you yesterday” —Toronto Star
- “If there is one thing I would teach a child, above all else, it is to be able to imagine himself into the flesh of other people: to realize his mother’s weariness, his father’s anxieties, his little brother’s lonely fears, and to give of himself generously to ease their burdens A child who has learned to be consistently generous will become a generous adult, much loved and therefore truly successful” —IAR Wylie
- “There’s no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting people up” —Woman’s Home Companion
- “A party without a cake is really just a meeting” —Julia Child
- “Kindness is one thing you can’t give away It always comes back” —George Skolsky
- “Nothing bad can happen if you haven’t hit the ‘send’ key” —David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
- “Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done” —Ben Morcell
- “Humor plays close to the big, hot fire which is Truth” —EB White
- “You’re never too broken to be fixed” —Jonathan Van Ness
- “Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up” —George F Will
- “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day” —Sally Koch
- “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what” —Harper Lee
- “The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing that you’ll make one” —Elbert Hubbard
- “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it” —George Orwell
- “We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare In return, dogs have given us their absolute all It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made” —Roger Caras
- “The world is not yours for the taking, but for the trying Try hard” —Scott Galloway
- “Intelligence is when you spot the flaw in your boss’s reasoning Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out” —James Dent
- “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning But for children play is serious learning Play is really the work of childhood” —Fred Rogers
- “The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention” —Walter Anderson
- “I still close my eyes and go home—I can always draw from that” —Dolly Parton
- “Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat” —Harry Emerson Fosdick
- “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway” —Henry Boye
- “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved” —Barbara Johnson
- “Never fear shadows They simply mean there’s a light shining nearby” —Ruth E Renkel
- “The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul” —Alexandra Stoddard
- “No day in which you learn something is a complete loss” —David Eddings
- “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires” —Dorothy Parker
- “Mistakes are a fact of life It is the response to the error that counts” — Nikki Giovanni
- “Let us endeavor so to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry” —Mark Twain
- “What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor” —Bern Williams
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it” —Peter F Drucker
- “A problem is a chance for you to do your best” —Duke Ellington
- “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them” —Frank Clark
- “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it” —Hugh Mulligan
- “If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe” —Carl Sagan
- “You can’t turn back the clock But you can wind it up again” —Bonnie Prudden
- “We spend the first part of our human experience avidly accumulating things and the other half wondering what in the world we’re going to do with all the stuff” —Margret E Keatts
- “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain” —GK Chesterton
- “The narrower the mind the broader the statement” —Ted Cook
- “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s also the first to be replaced” —Marilyn vos Savant (May 00)
- “Just be good and kind to your children Not only are they the future of the world, but they’re also the ones who can sign you into a home” —Dennis Miller
- “Love doesn’t make the world go round Love is what makes the ride worthwhile” —Franklin P Jones
- “Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet” —African proverb
- “It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office” —B Birdsong
- “Temptation usually comes in by a door that has been deliberately left open” —Arnold Glasow
- “Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody” —Malcolm S Forbes
- “Whatever your lot in life, build something on it” —Home Life
- “Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue” —Franklin P Jones
- “Memories are everyone’s second chance at happiness” —Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else” —Tom Stoppard
- “You only have to do a very few things right in your life—so long as you don’t do too many things wrong” —Warren Buffett
- “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm” —Bruce Barton
- “Pay no attention to what the critics say A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic” —Jean Sibelius
- “Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue” —Roger C Andersen
- “The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back” —Abigail Van Buren
- “Never tell people how to do things Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity” —Gen George S Patton, Jr
- “If you want children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others” —Dr. Haim Ginott
- “To err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane” —Lane Olinghouse
- “To err is human, to forgive, canine” —Lynn Johnston
- “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say” —Will Durant
- “I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it” —Harry Emerson Fosdick
- “As long as the world is turning, we’re going to be dizzy” —Mel Brooks
- “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion” —Henry David Thoreau
- “It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon” —Kermit the Frog
- “Morality is only moral when it is voluntary” —Lincoln Steffens
- “A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other people assume there’s fire”—Dan Bennett
- “Having a young child explain something exciting he has seen is the finest example of communication you will ever hear or see” —Bob Talbert
- “Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect” —Eleanor C Wood
- “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself” —Alice Walker
- “Don’t spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been” —Alex Trebek
- “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten” —Jon Bon Jovi
- “Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed” —Mia Hamm
- “Jealousy is all the fun you think they had” —Erica Jong
- “Amateurs wait for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work” —Chuck Close
- “You can’t have everything where would you put it?” —Steven Wright
- “I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.” — Rosa Parks
- “Being happy never goes out of style.” — Lilly Pulitzer
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
- “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” — Maya Angelou
- “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
- “I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.” — Ann Richards
- “Never lose sight of the face that the most important yardstick to your success is how you treat other people.” — Barbara Bush
- “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.” — Johnny Cash
- “I don’t go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana
- “The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance, to ourselves, they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.” — Eudora Welty
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life.” — Jackie Robinson
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton
- “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer
- “If I’d have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I’d be really tired.” — Willie Nelson
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire
- “Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.” — Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” — William Faulkner
- “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” — Rosa Parks
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go
- “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” — Jackie Robinson
- “The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.” — Julia Roberts
- “Now it’s the little moments that stop me in my tracks because that’s what life is all about.” — Joanna Gaines
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” — Helen Keller
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” — Maya Angelou
- “All serious daring starts from within.” — Eudora Welty
- “Life just doesn’t hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that’s the exciting part.” — Emeril Lagasse
- “You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” — Dolly Parton
- “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.” — Ralph Ellison
- “I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.” — Loretta Lynn
- “Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.” — Joel Osteen
- “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” — Beyoncé Knowles
- “Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.” — Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
- “You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do.” — Barbara Bush
- “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” — Billy Graham
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on them. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” — Johnny Cash
- “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” — Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
- “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” — Eudora Welty
- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- “Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” — Rosa Parks
- “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou
- “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” — William Faulkner
- “We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.” — Jimmy Carter