Life is a beautiful journey that is meant to be embraced to the fullest every day. However, that doesn’t mean you always wake up ready to seize the day and sometimes need a reminder that life is a great gift.

Each day, there are infinite moments to change your life for the better, handle your relationships, goals, and dreams with great care. In everything you do, no matter how small it might seem, there’s always an opportunity to strive for greatness.

Living by a few simple yet undeniably important quotes could make all the difference. Each section or saying is full of wisdom. Check out our fantastic collection, where you find inspirational words to live by.

450 Quotes to Live By

“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

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned 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.” – Steve Jobs

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” – William Blake

“Life is a stage and you get only one performance. Make it a good one.”

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

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

“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

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

“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever you were going to do anyway.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

“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

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

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

“All the days that you wake up, you got one job, and that’s to get better every single day.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”

“Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.” – Orison Swett Marden

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” – John McLeod

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

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal

“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.” – Elizabeth Jane Howard

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” – Jennifer Aniston

“Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing.” – Kendrick Lamar

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

“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.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Live life to the fullest because you only get to live it once.”

“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steven Furtick

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

“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

“When words fail, music speaks.” – Shakespeare

“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

“Everyday is a new beginning, take a deep breath and start again.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“Luck is the residue of design.” – John Milton

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking

“Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are.” – Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”

“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

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D. H. Lawrence

“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

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” – Bill Clinton

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“You were born with the ability to change someone’s life—don’t ever waste it.” – Dale Partridge

“If you want it, become it.” – Mastin Kipp

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars.” – Evil Kinevil

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Henry Ford

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank

“Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.” – Madeline L’ Engle

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

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

“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

“I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” – Jimi Hendrix

“If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar

“Success requires no apologies. Failure permits no alibis.” – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“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.”

“Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.” – Walter Kirn

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”

“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

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” – Buddha

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katharine Hepburn

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.” – Denzel Washington

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.” – Vincent van Gogh

“People are going to tell you who you are your whole life. You just got to punch back and say ‘No, this is who I am.’ You want people to look at you differently? Make them. You want to change things? You’re going to have to go out there and change them yourself—because there are no fairy godmothers in this world.” – Emma Swan, Once Upon a Time

“A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.” – Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“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.”

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

“When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.”

“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” – Seneca

“Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Jose Luis Borges

“Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.” – Robin Sharma

“The higher you climb the better the view.”

“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

“Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.” – Mary Engelbreit

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee

“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

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C. S. Lewis

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith

“A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” – H. Stanley Judd

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“If you do not go after go after what you want, you will never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.”

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones that are worth hurting for.” – Bob Marley

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

“You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.” – Joel Osteen

“If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.”

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” – Neil Armstrong

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” – Jimmy Carter

“Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.”

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

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

“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from an ocean. You are not a stranger here.” – Alan Watts

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J. K. Rowling

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“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

“I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“If the world was blind how many people would you impress.” – Boonaa Mohammed

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.” – Lucia Capacchione

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy Goodman

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

“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

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own

“It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mill

“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

“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey

“Reality is wrong, dreams are for real.” – Tupac

“One day the people that don’t even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” – Johnny Depp

“Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” – Dejan Stojanovic

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“Be who you are and let everyone love that person.” – Wiz Khalifa

“Aspire to inspire before we expire.”

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.”

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” – Brian Tracy

“Talent is given, greatness is earned.”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.” – Meg Cabot, Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything.”

“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

“With patience you can even cook a stone. (One of the best quotes to live by).”

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Tony Robbins

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde

“I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That’s what makes you a champion.” – Muhammed Ali

“Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” – Walt Whitman

“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

“When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” – Confucius

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“There is no elevator to success — you have to take the stairs.”

“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh

“Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” – Albert Camus

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” – Susan Sontag

“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

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have nothing to lose but something to gain.” – Eminem

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha

“White is not always light and black is not always dark.” – Habeeb Akande

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.” – Jennifer Aniston

“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

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

“If you want something you’ve never had then you you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.”

“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

“Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

“Don’t live your fears, live your dreams.”

“Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.” – Les Brown

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein

“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

“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”

“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.”

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

“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

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson

“Change the world by being yourself.” – Amy Poehler

“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

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne

“Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

“Whatever you do, do it well.” – Walt Disney

“Stay strong. Even when it feels like everything’s falling apart.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” – Jonathan Lockwood Hule

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt men doing it.” – Confucius

“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

“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

“Don’t worry what others are doing. Do you!.” – Russell Simmons

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

“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

“Run if you can. Walk if you can’t. Crawl if you have to.” – Dean Karnazes

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie

“Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” – Tyga

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” – Macklemore

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.” – Paolo Coelho

“Strive for greatness.” – Lebron James

“Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, & character.” – William Arthur Ward

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” – Wordsworth

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” – C.S. Lewis

“Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.” – Louise L. Hay, Heal Your Body A-Z

“It’s less about learning new things and more about letting go of old things.” – Liza Miller

“Die with memories, not dreams.”

“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)

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Oh, the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind.” – Dr. Seuss

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” – Richard Koch

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“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

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

“Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure—even the worst—beats the hell out of not trying.” – Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each is to succeed.” – Corita Kent

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

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

“I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Live for each second without hesitation.” – Elton John

“A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.” – Atticus

“Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.” – Queen Latifah

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.” – James Arthur Ray

“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

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

“Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.” – Yoda

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“Your past does not equal your future.” – Tony Robbins

“Do things that count, but don’t count the things you do.”

“I will remember and recover, not forgive and forget.”

“Begin each day with a grateful heart.”

“In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.”

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins

“Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

“I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fairytale. If you want me, earn me.” – Olivia Pope, Scandal

“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”

“Your mind is like water, when agitated it becomes difficult to see but if allowed to settle, the answer becomes clear.” – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

“Clear your mind of can’t!.”

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” – Kurt Cobain

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“A man who flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” – Sador, Children of Húrin

“Choose people who lift you up.” – Michelle Obama

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Shawshank Redemption

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” – Elvis Presley

“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“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

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“It hurt because it mattered.” – John Green

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.” – Tony Robbins

“As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” – Helen Keller

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

“Critical feedback is the breakfast of champions. Defensiveness is the dinner of losers.” – Dharmesh Shah

“Nothing lasts forever but at least we got these memories.” – J. Cole

“The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

“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

“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden

“And still, I rise.” – Maya Angelou

“As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” – David DeNotaris

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” – George Clooney

“Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today.”

“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

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” – Anne Frank

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

“f you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.” – Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Find people who will make you better.” – Michelle Obama

“If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.” – Dalai Lama

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” – Julia Sorel

“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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”