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Inspirational Quotes About Life

March 31, 2023

Frank Zappa once said, “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”

Inspirational quotes about life help inspire and motivate us. They can help us through good times and bad. They are a resource to help us with our thinking.

Peruse the quotes below to see if they challenge you to be your best self.

Table of Contents

  • Best Inspirational Quotes About Living
  • About Life Journey Inspirational Quotes
  • Noteworthy Sayings
  • Inspirational Quotes About Change
  • For Yearbooks
  • Life Lessons Quotes and Proverbs
  • Inspirational Quotes On Character
  • Favorite Inspirational Quotes
  • Short Motivational Quotes
  • Funny Inspirational Quotes

Best Inspirational Quotes About Living

1.) It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov

2.) Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

3.) In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Careb

4.) In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

5.) Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

6.) The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius

7.) A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius

201+ Best Inspirational quotes about life.

8.) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

9.) Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

10.) Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol

11.) A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
Thomas Fuller

12.) Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Pope Francis’s Inspirational Quotes

13.) However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world, beauty is born anew.

14.) Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

15.) God’s forgiveness is stronger than any sin.

16.) To change the world, we must be good for those who cannot repay us.

17.) A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

18.) The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

19.) Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

20.) Let us ask the Lord for the grace not to speak badly of others, not to criticize, not to gossip, but rather to love everyone.

Mark Twain Quotations

21.) Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

22.) If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember everything.

23.) To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Quotes

24.) All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

25.) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

26.) You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Lord Byron Sayings

27.) Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

28.) Adversity is the first path to truth

29.) There is no instinct like that of the heart.

About Life Journey Inspirational Quotes

30.) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.
Robert Frost

31.) Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Horace

32.) Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Horace

33.) It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

34.) The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

35.) Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

36.) Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy

37.) Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ovid

38.) There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
Ovid

39.) Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
Plato

Voltaire - Inspirational quotes about life.

Noteworthy Sayings

40.) There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

41.) All sunshine makes the desert.
Proverb

42.) It is not enough to take steps that may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

43.) Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Unknown

44.) In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Unknown

45.) Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Unknown

Inspirational Quotes About Change

46.) If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If it did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Charlotte Bronte

47.) Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

48.) A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb

49.) Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

50.) Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

51.) It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth

52.) A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, determination, dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

53.) Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller

Funny quotes to inspire you.

Inspiring William Shakespeare Quotations

54.) Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

55.) A wretched soul, bruis’d with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burthen’d with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare

56.) Surmounted difficulties not only teach but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp

57.) Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Unknown

For Yearbooks

58.) All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

59.) I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

60.) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

61.) Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

62.) Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

63.) It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho

64.) I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

65.) All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

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Inspiring Sayings for Yearbook

66.) Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

67.) The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

68.) Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Unknown

69.) No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

70.) Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

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

72.) Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible.
George Leonard

73.) Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

74.) Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

75.) The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face and resolves to change them, he lays the cornerstone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

76.) The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

77.) To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Unknown

78.) You can do anything, but not everything.
Unknown

79.) The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Unknown

80.) Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
Unknown

Life Lessons Quotes and Proverbs

81.) It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

82.) We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison

83.) Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

84.) Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Unknown

85.) Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Proverb

86.) If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright

87.) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky

88.) Perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire

Who was Voltaire?

Key learnings

89.) Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

90.) You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

91.) Being content creates simplicity in life.
John Heider

92.) Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pindar

93.) In teaching history, there should be extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgment.
Albert Einstein

94.) Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin

95.) There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right…
Martin Luther

96.) That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Nietzsche

97.) We always strive after what is forbidden and desire the things refused us.
Ovid

98.) When one door closes, another opens. But often, we look so long, so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller

99.) There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison

100.) I demolish my bridges behind me — then there is no choice but to move forward.
Fridtjof Nansen

Inspirational Quotes On Character

101.) The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano

102.) You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus

103.) Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

104.) The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch

105.) Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield

106.) Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster

107.) Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

108.) Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path. The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Integrity

109.) The essential thing is not knowledge but character.
Joseph Le Conte

110.) The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing

111.) A good name will shine forever.
Unknown

112.) A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet, but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
Jeremy Taylor

113.) Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

114.) Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
John C. Geikie

115.) It matters not what you are thought to be but what you are.
Publilius Syrus

Life Quotes

116.) In the stormy current of life, characters are weights or floats, which at one time make us glide along the bottom and at another maintain us on the surface.
Hippolyte Taine

117.) Character is what you think in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody

118.) Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond

119.) A man’s character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is.
Madame de la Rochejuquelein

120.) Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
Voltaire

121.) It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed.
William Winter

122.) Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis

The Importance of Character

Here are some positive quotes to inspire you.

123.) Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

124.) Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
Walt Whitman

125.) Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done, consolidates itself in the character and will project itself onward in a permanent continuity.
Henry Giles

126.) Character is, for the most part, simply a habit becoming fixed.
C. H. Parkhurst

127.) Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

128.) Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke

129.) It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Favorite Inspirational Quotes

130.) Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood

131.) I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison

132.) If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
Eminem

133.) Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib

134.) You do not find the happy life. You make it.
Camilla Eyring Kimball

135.) Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

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

137.) You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou

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

139.) Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Babe Ruth

140.) Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing, and there’s so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe

141.) Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

142.) Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Short Motivational Quotes

143.) When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho

144.) Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

145.) I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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

146.) Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton

147.) A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

148.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

149.) Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein

150.) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

151.) All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Sally Ride

152.) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

153.) 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

154.) Life is trying things to see if they work.
Ray Bradbury

155.) Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Thomas Edison

156.) Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Inspiring Insights

158.) 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.
Steve Jobs

159.) Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

160.) Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

161.) Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

162.) Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

163.) My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive.
Maya Angelou

164.) Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
Maya Angelou

165.) Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius

166.) Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene

167.) The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born, and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain

168.) It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Funny Inspirational Quotes

169.) Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.
Unknown

170.) Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, “I’m possible!
Audrey Hepburn

171.) The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers

170.) By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

172.) The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
Unknown

173.) A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.
Mark Twain

174.) Always remember that you are unique – just like everybody else.
Unknown

175.) Trying is the first step toward failure.
Homer Simpson

176.) Bad decisions make good stories.
Ellis Vidler

177.) If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.
Elvis Presley

178.) I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
Unknown

179.) When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
Unknown

180.) Be happy – it drives people crazy.
Unknown

181.) Be happy; it drives people crazy.
Paulo Coelho

182.) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

183.) To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire

Humorous Quotes to Inspire

184.) Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron

185.) Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning, and you think, ‘I’m not going to make it’, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
Charles Bukowski

186.) Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.
Robert Downey Jr.

187.) 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

188.) You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright

189.) I have to be successful because I like expensive things.
Unknown

190.) People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers

191.) Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

192.) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

193.) I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

194.) Some people are like clouds: when they disappear, it’s a beautiful day.
Unknown

195.) People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

196.) If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
Patches O’Houlihan

Hilarious Takes

197.) If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

198.) A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa

199.) Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

200.) We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
Bryan White

201.) What if the “Hokey Pokey” is what it’s all about?
Unknown

202.) I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.
Mitch Hedberg

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.

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