Top 57 Most Inspirational Short Quotes About Life

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

2. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” ― John Keats

3. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu

4. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ― Nelson Mandela

5. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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

7. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” ― Duke Ellington

8. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

9. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” ― Maya Angelou

10. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Lou Holtz

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

12. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

17. “You are amazing. As you are. Stronger than you know. More beautiful than you think.” ― Tia Sparkles

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

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

20. “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

22. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

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

24. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill

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

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

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

28. “My life is my message.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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

30. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” ― Lou Holtz

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

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

33. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ― Confucius

34. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” ― Eric Butterworth

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

36. “Happiness is a state of activity.” ― Aristotle

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

38. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” ― Lucille Ball

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

40. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ― Jim Morrison

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

42. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

44. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do every day.” ― Jason Mraz

45. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ― Aristotle

46. “Every man dies. Not every man lives.” ― William Wallace

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

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

49. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” ― Henry David Thoreau

50. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ― Christopher Reeve

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

52. “Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” ― Sophia Loren

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

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

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

56. “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” ― Marge Piercy

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

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