45+ Life Quotes That'll Motivate You to Take That Next Step
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Life brings us as many joyful moments as it does downfalls, and although there are days we wish there was a manual to follow, it simply wouldn’t be the same without the spontaneity. The journey of life may not become easier as we grow older, but we do seem to understand it better as our perspectives evolve. Whether you’re embarking on a new adventure right out of school or you want to explore different paths in your personal life, it’s never too late to change what the future looks like.
If you’re in need of motivation and inspiration, these life quotes from Hoda Kotb, Meghan Markle, Reese Witherspoon, among others, are exactly what you need to hear. Advice from practicing self-love to having a sense of humor to being optimistic never grows old and will surely help you find the push you need to get where you’re going.
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A woman in round John Lennon sunglasses standing in a wheat field
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
– Mark Caine
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Four friends on a mountaintop looking down at Glencoe in Scotland
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
– David Brinkley
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
– John F. Kennedy
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
-Herbert Bayard Swope
A brightly decorated room inside an adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”
– Thomas J. Watson
A man leaning out the window of a green Cadillac Deville to snap a photo
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
– Mother Teresa
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine
The white stucco facade of a building with three red doors to apartments
“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
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
– Plato
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
– Francis Chan
“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
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– J. K Rowling
A train platform and track in Santa Maria Novella rail station in Florence Italy
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Anthony Robbins
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso
“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“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
“Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.”
– Dax Shepard
“The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.”
– Elie Wiesel
A hairpin turn in a winding road through Southern France
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
– Elie Wiesel
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
– Sigmund Freud
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
– Jim Morrison
The sun setting in a cloudy sky and a famous quote
“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“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
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
– Babe Ruth
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
– David Rockefeller
A happy woman in denim jumping for joy outside her beach house
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.”
– Napoleon Hill
“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
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton
“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
“May you live all the days of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift
A blonde girl with outstretched arms celebrating having a great life
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
– Jason Mraz
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
– Jim Rohn
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
– Thomas A. Edison
A box of Belgian chocolates on a table with cocoa powder and confetti
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
– Bil Keane
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
– Henry Ford
“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”
– Denzel Washington
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
– Ingrid Bergman
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
A little girl in a pink dress and a tiara reading a fairy tale from a large book
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
– Frank Sinatra
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
Famous Joe Namath quote and a man walking on a bridge in a canyon
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Robert Frost
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
– Nathan Hale
“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”
– Albert Einstein
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
– St. Augustine
Two men laughing on a bench in the back of a coffee shop in Portland
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
– Leo Burnett
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw
A smiling brunette woman with red lipstick being herself and smiling
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
– Lao Tzu
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
– Oscar Wilde
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
– Mother Theresa
A woman in a Missoni cardigan holding a lit sparkler on a snowy day
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Gandhi
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”
– Helen Keller
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robern Frost
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
– T. S. Eliot
A smiling girl in red Rayban sunglasses with her hair blowing in the wind
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
– Steve Jobs
A couple dancing cheek to cheek at a party under a large crystal chandelier
“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.” – Mark Twain
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
– John Muir
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
– Voltaire
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
– Charles Dickens
A man and woman embracing as they watch the sun set over the hills in Utah
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
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ButchDECEMBER 21, 2019 AT 11:34 AM
Spend your time wisely, for it is the only wealth you will ever possess.
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therevs777DECEMBER 15, 2019 AT 7:20 AM
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these are amazing quotes that make me feel better and change my direction of thinking, thank you so much
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Gaurav SudakeOCTOBER 20, 2019 AT 11:06 PM
great people quotes very good collection,i like it ?
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HawaryOCTOBER 2, 2019 AT 9:44 PM
I am happy and will continue doing all the things that makes me smile, laugh valued, soft and beautiful
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nathascyaSEPTEMBER 21, 2019 AT 4:11 AM
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Semesa Warua BanuveSEPTEMBER 29, 2019 AT 4:43 PM
Bula From Fiji.. Inspirational quotes inspire me so much….God is love
god bless
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rickySEPTEMBER 16, 2019 AT 2:09 PM
Sorry – I misspoke. This has been a tough week for me. I meant to say: “I am who I am. I will be who I be. But no one in this room is going to change me.”
Sorry – I missed out the “I”
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Kathryn D YurchekSEPTEMBER 3, 2019 AT 7:16 PM
There is no such thing as normal or perfect, so don’t try to be……
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NothingJULY 31, 2019 AT 5:29 AM
Time is short,don’t waste it.
-Me, 2019.
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Joseph koechJULY 30, 2019 AT 9:30 PM
Thanks for the inspiring quotes
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Beautiful and truly inspiring quotes
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Laxmi BhandariJULY 11, 2019 AT 1:34 PM
This beautiful quotes always inspire me and make me realize much about life … Sometimes we tend to forget the purpose of living but this quotes always remind me there a reason for everything ??
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RameshJULY 1, 2019 AT 9:11 PM
Very nice, thanks for sharing
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DerrickJUNE 24, 2019 AT 4:24 AM
Words that make me wonderful Man
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Nice quotes, it’s so educational
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Prabir MohantyJUNE 3, 2019 AT 8:50 AM
Beautiful and inspiring quotations from great minds… They motivate us to be better persons…
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AJAYMAY 27, 2019 AT 10:24 AM
superb quotes..
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AJAYMAY 26, 2019 AT 9:07 AM
Superb Collection Of Quotes..
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PrabhakarMAY 21, 2019 AT 6:03 PM
Good collection quotes on life
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Fantastic quotes.
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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail
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“Being born from a poor family isn’t a crime, but dying poor isn’t ethical”
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These Quotes can make you feel rich, be patient and reason beyond Nature.
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Beautiful, beautiful quotes.Got me really inspired
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RedagasFEBRUARY 3, 2019 AT 12:31 AM
The way you think about the world is really inspiring.. ☺?? it shows me the way that I should also think like you.
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John BellantoniJANUARY 30, 2019 AT 11:16 PM
Not just quotes, but quotes with authors. Excellent.
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hey sir,
i just want to say that your blog and quotes are awesome. keep sharing .
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MatthewJANUARY 18, 2019 AT 10:35 PM
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”-Oprah Winfrey has inspired me a lot.
Thanks for the post
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Danyal AhmedDECEMBER 30, 2018 AT 4:27 AM
Very Nice Quotes, Thanks a lot for sharing
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Great quotes
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Fascinating, keep it up!!
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KISEMBO SUMBUSUOCTOBER 8, 2018 AT 8:00 PM
The more we feed our minds the more we understand the truth.
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...RatherNotSayJULY 21, 2018 AT 1:39 AM
Life is like a glow stick you have to break before you glow
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Krishnendu PramanickMAY 31, 2018 AT 10:14 PM
Hi Hannah,
Thanks for the collection.
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