99 Inspiring Life Quotes

There's a reason we turn to inspiring quotes. Inspiring life quotes can help us get through a bad day or turn fear into happiness. If you're letting yourself drown in pessimistic thoughts and your friends don't seem to be helpful when you need some inspirational advice, a good quote and saying can sometimes do the trick. When you need a shift in perspective and a reminder of what life offers, these 99 quotes will inspire you out of the doldrums:

1.  “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”— Maya Angelou
   
   
2.  "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
   
   
3.  “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt
   
   
4.  "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." — Christopher Reeve
   
   
5.  "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." — Coco Chanel
   
   
6.  “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your wallet.” — Will Rogers
   
   
7.  "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." — Dolly Parton
   
   
8.  "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." — Michael Jordan
   
   
9.  "I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." — Charlotte Bronte
   
   
10.  “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc
    
    
11. “You cannot save people, you can just love them.” — Anais Nin
    
    
12.  “Live each day as if your life has just begun.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    
    
13.   “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
    
    
14.  “The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham
    
    
15. "But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid." — Arianna Huffington
    
    
16.  “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
    
    
17.  "Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." — Oprah Winfrey
    
    
18.  “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
    
    
19.  “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
    
    
20.  "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — Mahatma Gandhi
    
    
21.  "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West
    
    
22.  “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”  — Steve Jobs
    
    
23.  “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” — Ruth Reichl
    
    
24.  "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe
    
    
25.   "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson
    
    
26.  “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa
    
    
27.  "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
    
    
28.  “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild
    
    
29.  “An unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
    
    
30.  ““I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart
    
    
31.  “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” — Marie Curie
    
    
32.  “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    
    
33.  “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." — Bruce Lee
    
    
34.  “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”  — Elizabeth Gilbert
    
    
35.  “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh
    
    
36.   "It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
    
    
37.  “Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
    
    
38.  “I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” — Rosa Parks
    
    
39.  “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” — Tony Robbins
    
    
40.  “Run to the fire; don’t hide from it." — Meg Whitman
    
    
41.  “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
    
    
42.  “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
    
    
43.  “If you can dream it, you can achieve it." — Zig Ziglar
    
    
44.  “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” — Simone de Beauvoir
    
    
45.  "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." — Bill Gates
    
    
46.  “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” — Melissa Etheridge
    
    
47.  "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." — George Bernard Shaw
    
    
48.  “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” — Katharine Hepburn
    
    
49.  "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." — Stephen Covey
    
    
50.  “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone
    
    
51.  “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
    
    
52.  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
    
    
53.  “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
    
    
54.  “It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.” — Taylor Swift
    
    
55.  "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
    
    
56.  “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
    
    
57.  “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch
    
    
58.  “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” — Harper Lee
    
    
59.  “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
    
    
60.  “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” — Martha Stewart
    
    
61.  “Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”  — Jose Luis Borges
    
    
62.  “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” — Indira Ghandi
    
    
63.  “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
    
    
64.  “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
    
    
65.  “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Ronald Reagan
    
    
66.  “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” — J.K. Rowling
    
    
67.  “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis
    
    
68.  “All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” — Julie Andrews
    
    
69.  “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
    
    
70. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
    
    
71.  “The challenge is not to be perfect...it’s to be whole.” — Jane Fonda
    
    
72.  “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
    
    
73.  “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” — Bette Midler
    
    
74.  “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” — Bob Dylan
    
    
75.   “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” — Melissa McCarthy
    
    
76.  “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
    
    
77.  “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” — Jennifer Lopez
    
    
78.  “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
    
    
79.  “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” — Cher
    
    
80.  “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” — Rumi
    
    
81.   “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”  — William Shakespeare
    
    
82.  “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” — Susan Cain
    
    
83.  “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
    
    
84.  “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” — Hoda Kotb
    
    
85.  “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”  — George Carlin
    
    
86.  “Well behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    
    
87.  “The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
    
    
88.  “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” — Rachel Zoe
    
    
89.  “It's very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” — Jonathan Ive
    
    
90.  “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’” — Jada Pinkett Smith
    
    
91.  “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
    
    
92.  “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
    
    
93.  “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach
    
    
94.  “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” — Tory Burch
    
    
95.  “If you focus on results, you will never get change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” — Jack Dixon
    
    
96.  “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    
    
97.  “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Roger
    
    
98.  “When they go low, we go high.” — Michelle Obama
    
    
99. “The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” — Chuck Palahniuk

Whether you need a funny quote, an inspirational meme or just some wise sayings to give your heart the courage it needs to take a leap in your career, these 99 phrases should offer you a good springboard!

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