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50 Inspiring Life Quotes

Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Uplift Your Journey Through Life

By Danish AsifPublished about a year ago 3 min read

1."The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

2."In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take." – Lewis Carroll

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

4."The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama

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

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6."Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller

7."The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

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

9."Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." – Albert Schweitzer

10."Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius

11."The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey

12."Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." – Sarah Louise Delany

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

14."Life is a journey, not a destination." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

15."What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

17."Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." – Maya Angelou

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18."To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde

19."Life is either a great adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller

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

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

22."The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha

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

24."You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." – Brian Tracy

25."Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

26."The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb

27."Life is too important to be taken seriously." – Oscar Wilde

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

29."Life is a balance of holding on and letting go." – Rumi

30."Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

31."Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene

32."The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." – Tony Robbins

33."Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." – Ernest Holmes

34."You cannot find peace by avoiding life." – Virginia Woolf

35."Life is a flower of which love is the honey." – Victor Hugo

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36."The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu

37."Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller

38."Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." – Matt Cameron

39."Life is too short to be anything but happy." – Unknown

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

41."Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes." – Lao Tzu

42."The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." – Walter Bagehot

43."Life is a canvas, and you are the artist." – Unknown

44."Life is not about how many breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away ." – Maya Angelou

45."Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." – Oliver Goldsmith

46."The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

48."In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost

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

50."The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." – Bertrand Russell

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