52 Life-Changing Quotes

Life is a journey filled with countless lessons, moments of inspiration, and opportunities for growth. Along the way, certain words can resonate deeply, shifting our perspectives and igniting a spark within us. In this blog post, we’ve gathered a curated collection of the top 52 life-changing quotes. Each one is carefully chosen to uplift, motivate, and empower you to embrace the challenges and triumphs of everyday life. Whether you're seeking encouragement, wisdom, or a fresh outlook, these profound quotes are sure to leave a lasting impression on your heart and mind. Let's embark on this transformative journey together, one quote at a time.

1. “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]” - John Rogers

2. “You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.” - Steve Backley

3. “Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.” - Steve Backley

4. “For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.” - Steve Backley

5. “The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.” - Steve Backley

6. “Invest your energy in the things you can control.” - Steve Backley

7. “Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.” - Steve Backley

8. “These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.” - Steve Backley

9. “Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.” - Steve Backley

10. “Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.” - Steve Backley

11. “Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.” - Steve Backley

12. “Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.” - Steve Backley

13. “There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?” - Steve Backley

14. “It is action that creates motivation.” - Steve Backley

15. “If not you, who?” - Steve Backley

16. “If not now, when?” - Steve Backley

17. “The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.” - Steve Backley

18. “The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.” - Steve Backley

19. “The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.” - Steve Backley

20. “Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.” - Steve Backley

21. “Compete like you cannot fail.” - Steve Backley

22. “It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.” - Steve Backley

23. “If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.” - Steve Backley

24. “Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.” - Stephen Richards

25. “Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!” - Stephen Richards

26. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.” - Stephen Richards

27. “When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.” - Stephen Richards

28. “Why don’t we just say it already?” He smirked. “I mean come on now.”I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. “What is it you think we want to say?”“That we love each other. I kick myself every time I stopped myself from saying it. And I know you love me and that’s all that matters,” he said, pulling me close instead of away this time. We stared at the water in a shared silence.My mind wished I could say the same thing, but knowing if I wanted to was the problem. Did I even know how?” - Holly Hood

29. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” - Stephen Richards

30. “Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.” - Stephen Richards

31. “Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.” - Stephen Richards

32. “Judgment is a negative frequency.” - Stephen Richards

33. “Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

34. “Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.” - Stephen Richards

35. “The first law of attraction is use Cosmic Ordering now.” - Stephen Richards

36. “Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.” - Stephen Richards

37. “On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

38. “Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!” - Stephen Richards

39. “Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

40. “...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.” - Karen Armstrong

41. “Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.” - Elisabeth Tova Bailey

42. “The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.” - Frederick Buechner

43. “I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. And as I spoke I knew these would be the most important words I would ever say and that it was important that they were the right words, that they were not propaganda, an attempt to change his mind, but respectful of what Will had said. I told him something good...” - Jojo Moyes Me Before You

44. “That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.” - John Marsden

45. “You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there’s nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.” - Marianne Wiggins

46. “To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.” - Stephen Richards

47. “Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.” - Stephen Richards

48. “It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")” - Cornell Woolrich

49. “There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

50. “Become your own success story, not someone else's.” - Stephen Richards

51. “Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.” - Haruki Murakami

52. “Run and hide or rise and shine ...” - Stephen Richards