100 Inspirational Quotes About Life

In the whirlwind of daily life, it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters. We all need a little inspiration now and then, a spark to ignite our passion, or a reminder that better days are always on the horizon. Whether you're navigating challenges, chasing dreams, or simply seeking to infuse your days with positivity, inspirational quotes have the power to uplift and motivate. In this carefully curated collection, you'll find the top 100 inspirational quotes about life, each chosen for their ability to resonate deeply and inspire change. Let these words of wisdom serve as your guide, offering new perspectives and a renewed sense of purpose.

1. “Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist...I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.” - Darryl Steven Markowitz

2. “Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.” - Deborah Brodie

3. “You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.” - Don Miguel Ruiz

4. “Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River)” - Kailin Gow

5. “Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.” - Joan Chittister

6. “If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty” - kiran

7. “There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness.” - Norman Ollestad

8. “She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” - Khaled Hosseini

9. “Mungkin beginilah seharusnya ujian disambut, sebuah perayaan terhadap ilmu. Dengan gempita. Selain itu, aku kira, pesta ujian yang meriah ini juga dibuat agar kami sekali-kali tidak boleh pernah takut apalagi trauma dengan ujian. Bahkan diharapkan kami kebal terhadap tekanan ujian dan bahkan bisa menikmati ujian itu. Apalagi ujian akan terus datang dalam berbagai rupa sampai akhir hayat kami.” - Ahmad Fuadi

10. “When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.” - Ann Landers

11. “Talk about a dream,try to make it real” - Bruce Springsteen

12. “Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.” - Tonny K. Brown

13. “If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.” - Donna VanLiere

14. “I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.” - C. JoyBell C.

15. “This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.” - C. JoyBell C.

16. “I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous.” - C. JoyBell C.

17. “There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” - C. JoyBell C.

18. “It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.” - C. JoyBell C.

19. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” - C. JoyBell C.

20. “I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.” - C. JoyBell C.

21. “‎"What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't?" "Like what?" "Like if you were trying to get somewhere, but you couldn't find it? Does that mean something bad?" "No. It doesn't mean something bad. It just means you have a second chance to do it. And two chances is always better than just one.” - C. JoyBell C.

22. “It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.” - Henry David Thoreau

23. “Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face.” - Mike Kunda

24. “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” - C. JoyBell C.

25. “Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it's never too late for me to realize that it's my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I'm experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I'm high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn't climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!” - C. JoyBell C.

26. “Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!” - Henry Miller

27. “For years, I have searched and searched for this God. This feeling of complete love and acceptance. He was always out of reach. But here, where food is scare, money is tight, heat is heavy and tensions should run high, God is everywhere. Just as during the night around the gypsy fire, I am mesmerized by watching people who are truly happy. At peace. Kind. Grateful.” - Julie Cantrell

28. “It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.” - C. JoyBell C.

29. “Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.” - C. JoyBell C.

30. “Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!” - C. JoyBell C.

31. “Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.” - C. JoyBell C.

32. “You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams!” - Dr. Tae Yun Kim

33. “Our world is moving so fast and we are apt to miss so much of what is happening "right now." If we can put down our smart phones for one moment and be present to what is around us, I believe these incidental meetings and strangers who come into our lives can give us unexpected fortitude, perspective and even wisdom just when we need them the most - if we are just awake, aware and open to these new insights.” - Kristin S. Kaufman

34. “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” - C. JoyBell C.

35. “I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.” - Charlotte Brontë

36. “For every failure, there's an alternativecourse of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” - Mary Kay Ash

37. “I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.” - C. JoyBell C.

38. “If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.” - Michael Treanor

39. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” - Steve Jobs

40. “Go ahead and point out my flaws and weaknesses to me. In doing so it's just something to get excited about! Knowing there's a flaw that my Heavenly Daddy wants to make beautiful is rather exciting!” - Melissa Bradley

41. “You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.” - daniel waters, generation dead

42. “Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.” - Joyce Meyer

43. “Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore happiness and cleave unto joy! Now, now, let's not sugar-coat things! Lust has a lot more to do with life and what is the good of life if you do not carry much lust inside of you at all times? And joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way!” - C. JoyBell C.

44. “You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.” - Candace Bushnell

45. “It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.” - C. JoyBell C.

46. “The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.” - Keri Hulme

47. “Deja que toda tu nostalgia emigre, todos tus cabos sueltos; comienza, todos los días en el parto.” - Carlos Fuentes

48. “It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.” - Margaret George

49. “I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?” - C. JoyBell C.

50. “The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors.” - Victoria Addino

51. “Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!” - C. JoyBell C.

52. “I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.” - C. JoyBell C.

53. “Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.” - C. JoyBell C.

54. “There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?” - C. JoyBell C.

55. “Eternal Love,Distance is the salvation of my life, it is the magic of our love, thanks to that magic, I have finally learned to love you, from a distance. Go, but go far from me, I have a fear of losing you. Don't come close, please, do not destroy our love. I don't want to lose you. Distance has returned the love that was no longer there. Please don't ever return, because we've both discovered the essence of what we have. Distance will carry our love through eternity! Eternal love that only distance can keep alive.” - Sergio Figueira Correia

56. “لكل منا إسطورته، حلمه، كنزه الذي يختبئ في مكان ما، تحكي الأسطورة أن الإنسان منذ اللحظة الأولي له وهو يحلم بكنزه، فيظل يبحث عنه طول عمره، تنقضي الأعمار فلا يجد بعضنا كنزه، تتوه الأحلام من بعضنا فيفقد أمله في كنزه الأسطوري، يصل معظمنا إلي كنوز مزيفة لا قيمة لها فيقنع بها، وتصل قلة نادرة من البشر إلي كنزهم الحقيقي، فإذا فقد بعضنا طريقه وتاه في أحراش الحياة فلم يعثر علي كنزه ظلت أسطورته في قلبه.” - ثروت الخِرباوي

57. “من الممكن أن نخطئ، ولكن الخطأ يتحول إلى خطيئة حين نرفض التراجع عنه.” - معتز عبد الفتاح

58. “It's all connected you know” - Dennis L. McKiernan

59. “No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.” - Zayn Malik

60. “Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.” - Sarah Breathnach

61. “In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!” - Teal Vitler

62. “Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.” - Tae Yun Kim

63. “Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.” - Julianne Donaldson

64. “Bila kita berpisahke mana kau aku tak tahu, sahabatatau turuti kelok-kelok jalanatau tinggalkan kota penuh merah flamboyanhanya bila kau lupaIngat...pernah aku dan kausama-sama daki gunung-gunung tinggihampir kaki kita patah-patahnapas kita putus-putustujuan esa, tujuan satu:Pengabdian dan pengabdian kepada......Yang Maha Kuasa...” - Idhan Lubis

65. “No se trata de ser buena. Se trata de ponerle pasión.” - Jackson Pearce

66. “Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time” - Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

67. “Happiness is not only how to make yourself happy! but it's also how to draw a smile on others face..” - Abdulrahman Danbos

68. “Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

69. “Yang tidak wajar justru ketika kita tidak punya rasa apa-apa terhadap aneka perubahan dan kondisi yang terjadi” - Ririe Khayan

70. “Divine Love is the key to all of existence. Without it, nothing can survive. Every one of us is only seeking one thing. Though it is called by many names (God, Alpha and Omega, Allah, etc..) it's ultimate name is Divine Love.” - C.Michelle Gonzalez

71. “Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.” - T.D. Jakes

72. “Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.” - Saleem Durrani

73. “Pada akhirnya, tidak ada yang bisa memaksa. Tidak juga janji atau kesetiaan. Tidak ada. Sekalipun akhirnya dia memilih untuk tetap bersamamu, hatinya tidak bisa dipaksa oleh apapun, oleh siapapun.” - Dee

74. “Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver con ese mundo, y difícilmente algún día tendría que ver algo con él; por tanto, pensé que así debía de verse después de la muerte.” - Daniel Defoe

75. “How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don’t worry about the rest. There’s so much to do that a lifetime won’t be enough, if you look around attentively.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

76. “I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.” - C. JoyBell C.

77. “She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.” - C. JoyBell C.

78. “It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.” - Kristi Bowman

79. “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh

80. “Follow your dreams even when they're out of reach~” - Sean Torres

81. “I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

82. “Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well.” - Sandeep Kakkar

83. “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.” - Michael A. Singer

84. “Family is the people you love who love you back.” - Karen Marie Hart

85. “Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully convinced that I as a person am completely capable of blending myself in the accordance of friendship, in order to give respect to the differences between people and in order for others to feel that I respect them). However, I have come to learn at this time in my life, that such an attitude is all good for a while, but then there does come a point where you must see and identify yourself; also see and identify others! You have to be able to identify yourself as someone who is made happy by this and as someone who doesn't like that; then when you meet people, discern if those same things are the things that make them happy and if those same things are the things that they don't like, because at a point in time it becomes beneficial to you, to not waste time on blending in behalf of virtue but rather it becomes beneficial to you, to see yourself and go into the direction that makes you happy, taking people with you that are already going in that same direction and who also do not like the things that you do not like. At the end of the day, there are those paths in life, and you have to take one of them, you can't walk down all of them.” - C. JoyBell C.

86. “It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.” - Tara Moss

87. “But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.” - William Wordsworth

88. “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

89. “When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.” - Katherine Paterson

90. “Hidup ini ibarat batu giling. Perlu ada alu dan alas. Kedua-duanya perlu berganding bagi menggiling lada kering. Air pula peranannya bagi menjadikan gilingan lada ini lebih lembut dan halus. Lada pula mudah hancur. Tengok, Allah jadikan sesuatu itu ada gunanya (Travelog cinta abadi)” - Roza Roslan

91. “If you want to change the way that the world appears to be; you must change the way that you see everything in it. And if you want to change the world; you must change the way everyone else sees everything in it. And when everyone else sees everything in the world in a new way, the world will be changed and then mankind will turn their faces to the heavens in search of a brand new vision and then it will be able to see the heavens for what the heavens really are! That being because, in order for a person to change how he sees the world, he must first change the eyes of his soul and it is with those new eyes that man can look at the sun, that man can see the heavens, that man can know God. Then it is with these newfound truths that humanity will continue to live, but living by walking in a new reality.” - C. JoyBell C.

92. “Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them.” - Chioma Nkachukwu

93. “Every life is a story make your life a best seller.” - Inspirational Sayings

94. “Di dunia ini tidak ada yang instan, semuanya butuh proses dan kerja keras” - Anne ahira

95. “Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.” - Selena Haskins

96. “They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice” - Paolo Coelho

97. “For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.” - Hanna Perlstein Marcus

98. “Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” - Don Miguel Ruiz

99. “Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't” - Bill Nye

100. “The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.” - Cate Tiernan