If you’re looking for some words of wisdom, look no further! Here you’ll find over 90 inspiring ‘quotes to live by’ in our curated collection of powerful and thought-provoking quotations from some of the most influential and inspiring people in history.
From writers and philosophers, to scientists and artists, these quotes offer timeless wisdom and guidance on how to live a meaningful life.
Whether you are looking for a little motivation, a burst of inspiration, or just a reminder to stay true to your values and beliefs, we hope that these quotes to live life by will support you need to live your best life.
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Quotes To Live By
1. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan
2. “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
3. “The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.” – Oprah Winfrey
4. “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
5. “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
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6. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
7. “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
8. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” – Dejan Stojanovic
9. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
10. “The biggest mistake you’ll ever make is letting people stay in your life for longer than they deserve.” – Unknown
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11. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison
12. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
13. “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
14. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
15. “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katharine Hepburn
16. “See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be” – E. Lockhart
17. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
18. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
19. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
20. “If you really want to do something you’ll find a way, if you don’t you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
21. “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
22. “Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.” – Meg Cabot
23. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen
24. “Great people, no matter their field, have similar habits. Learn them and use them in your own quest for greatness.” – Paula Andress
25. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
26. “Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Jose Luis Borges
27. “Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Henry Ford
28. “Don’t worry what others are doing. Do you!” – Russell Simmons
29. “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
30. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” – Unknown
31. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
32. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
33. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
34. “Choose a job you love, & you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
35. “Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” – Brian Tracy
36. “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 opinions drown 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
37. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
38. “Just remember: The people that say, ‘your dreams are impossible’ have already quit on theirs.” – Grant Cardone
39. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “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
41. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
43. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
44. “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
45. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
46. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, & character.” – WA Ward
47. “Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are.” – Robert Greene
48. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
49. “Critical feedback is the breakfast of champions. Defensiveness is the dinner of losers.” – Dharmesh Shah
50. “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
51. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
52. “Before you dismiss a beginner’s work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.” – Jason Fried
53. “In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.” – Unknown
54. “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley
55. “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
56. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
57. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
58. “If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.” – Ted Murphy
59. “Life is too short to wait.” – Unknown
60. “A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” – H. Stanley Judd
61. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Van Gogh
62. “You were born with the ability to change someone’s life – don’t ever waste it.” – Dale Partridge
63. “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
64. “Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.” – Louise L
65. “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.” – Unknown
66. “Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.” – James Arthur Ray
67. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
68. “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
69. “The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.” – Dennis Brown
70. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
71. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
72. “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
73. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
74. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
75. “Your mind is like water, when agitated it becomes difficult to see but if allowed to settle, the answer becomes clear.” – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
76. “There is no elevator to success — you have to take the stairs.” – Unknown
77. “It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Sylvester Stallone
78. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
79. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
80. “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
81. “Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.” – Orison Swett Marden
82. “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
83. “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” – Cathy Guisewite
84. “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
85. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
86. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison
87. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
88. “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” – Julia Sorel
89. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
90. “Don’t be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.” – Marie Forleo
91. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
92. “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
93. “It’s less about learning new things and more about letting go of old things.” – Liza Miller
94. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones that are worth hurting for.” – Bob Marley
95. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
96. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.” – Tony Robbins
97. “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
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.
