130 Inspirational Quotes for Finding Happiness Success Love and the Meaning of Life 1. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars” -Kahlil Gibran 2. “Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.” -Eckhart Tolle 3. “The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost 4. “It is our darkest moments that we must focus on the light.” -Aristotle Onassis 5. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine 6. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” –Bill Cosby 7. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley 8. “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 9. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” -Bruce Lee 10. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus 11. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein 12. “Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 13. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” -Maya Angelou 14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain 15. “You cannot dream yourself into character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” -Henry David Thoreau 16. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” -Eddie Rickenbacker 17. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” -Les Brown 18. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” –Larry Winget 19. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle 20. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Goethe 21. “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” -Napoleon Hill 22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” -Roy Goodman 23. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”-Mark Twain 24. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain 25. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee 26. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” -Stephen Covey 27. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” -James Cameron 28. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 29. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley 30. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” -Vince Lombardi 31. “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.” -Randy Pausch 32. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” -Bruce Lee 33. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb 34. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” -Walter Anderson 35. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn 36. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson 37. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” -Swami Vivekenanda 38. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” -Paulo Coelho 39. “Little by little, a little becomes a lot.” -Tanzanian Proverb 40. “Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” – Albert Camus 41. “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.” -Abraham Lincoln 42. “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” -Emiliano Zapata 43. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” –Conrad Hilton 44. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein 45. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” -Dennis Kimbro 46. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” -Mahatma Gandhi 47. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington 48. “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” –E.E. Cummings 49. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot 50. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” –Henry Ford 51. “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” -J.M. Power 52. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” -Fred Devito 53. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t do.” -Rikki Rogers 54. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” -Earl Nightingale 55. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” -Lou Holtz 56. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill 57. “There is no education like adversity.” -Disraeli 58. “Adversity introduces a man to himself.” -Unknown 59. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” -Pat Riley 60. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 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 61. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” –Seth Godin 62. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”–Nelson Mandela 63. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison 64. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” –Tom Bodett 65. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln 66. “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 67. “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past.” – Jack Kornfield 68. “Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.” -T.E. Lawrence 69. “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” -Thomas Jefferson 70. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers 71. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley 72. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso 73. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 74. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -Albert Ellis 75. “A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.” – Denis Waitley 76. “The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” -Joan Didion 77. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” -Henry Ward Beecher 78. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle 79. “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. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out 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. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs 80. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” -Randy Pausch 81. “Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out.” -Randy Pausch 82. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Ganhdi 83. “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 84. “Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.” -Unknown 85. “If you can’t be criticized for it, it’s probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism?” -Unknown 86. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt 87. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill 88. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln 89. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” -Martin Luther King Jr. 90. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson 91. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -Mae West 92. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” -Mark Twain 93. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss 94. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 95. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln 96. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden 97. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller 98. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt 99. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” –Winston Churchill 100. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” –J. Paul Getty 101. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” –Jim Rohn 102. “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” -Rainer Maria Rilke 103. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” –Robert A. Heinlein 104. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” –Charles Darwin 105. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain 106. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman 107. “The harder you practice, the luckier you get.” -Gary Player 108. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein 109. “In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson 110. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 111. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful.” -Eric Thomas 112. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 113. “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 115. “You’ve got what it takes but it’s going to take everything you’ve got.” -Unknown 116. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” -Carl Jung 117. “I hated every minute of training, but I said ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” -Muhammad Ali 118. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” -Randy Pausch 119. “Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.” -Robert Brault 120. “The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” -Wendell Berry 121. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard 122. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” -Chuck Palahniuk 123. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou 124. “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” –Muhammed Ali 125. “Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” –Dale Carnegie 126. “ We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved. ” -C. Joybell C. 127. “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love.” -Henry Miller 128. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” -Brandi Snyder 129. “Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert Heinlein 130. Love is more than a noun—it is a verb; it is more than a feeling—it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” -William Arthur Ward
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