60 Inspirational Life Quotes

In the journey of life, we often find ourselves in need of motivation and reflection. Through the wisdom encapsulated in words, inspirational quotes have the power to uplift our spirits, shift perspectives, and reignite our zest for life. Whether you're seeking guidance during challenging times or simply looking to enhance your day-to-day mindset, these carefully selected quotes offer profound insights and encouragement. Join us as we explore a collection of the top 60 inspirational life quotes that promise to inspire, motivate, and remind us of the beauty and potential that life holds. Dive in and let these words spark a renewed sense of hope and purpose.

1. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” - Elbert Hubbard

2. “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” - Joan Didion

3. “Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.” - Alan Moore

4. “Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.” - Bob Marley

5. “Let all of life be an unfettered howl.” - Vladimir Nabokov

6. “Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.” - Christina Sunley

7. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” - John von Neumann

8. “Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.” - Robin Sharma

9. “And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?” - Morrissey

10. “The heart has a heart of its own.” - Morrissey

11. “The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.” - Aleksandar Hemon

12. “All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.” - Jean-Pierre de Caussade

13. “For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me-I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.” - Susane Colasanti

14. “When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard” - Marian Keyes

16. “Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.” - Louisa May Alcott

17. “There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said. So much has happened; so little has changed. We have so many words prepared; so many words are too hard to actually say. A few days have passed; this pain has been here for years. We don't know where to go from here; our future has always been in our minds. Moments of peace with those who constantly argue; fights with those that usually bring peace. There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said.” - Alysha Speer

18. “The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.” - Walker Percy

19. “To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.” - Michael J. Fox

20. “The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed... Like thief in the night, aliens invade human. Chaos happens prior to the new order of coexistence. The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed.” - Toba Beta

21. “You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.” - Steve Maraboli

22. “Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

23. “How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human?” - Sorin Cerin

24. “What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.” - Santosh Kalwar

25. “The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.” - Paulo Coelho

27. “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

28. “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

29. “The greatest Emotion is Love.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest gift is your own Life.The greatest pleasure is CHOCOLATE!The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is that there's always something new to learn.The greatest virtue is temperance.The greatest meditation is a peaceful mind.The greatest practice is to be Kind.education.The greatest challenge is to let go. The greatest wisdom is to be in the NOW” - Pablo

30. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.” - Gena Showalter

31. “He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.” - John Boyne

32. “We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)” - Kristina Riggle

33. “Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.” - Criss Jami

34. “It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.” - Avery Sawyer

35. “Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.” - Jim Beaver

36. “Live now, die later!” - Stewart Home

37. “Life is not meant to be an open-book test.” - Alyson Noel

38. “You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.” - Kim Edwards

39. “This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.” - Terry Pratchett

40. “I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.” - Toni Morrison

41. “البُرج الوحيد الذي يصل إلى السماء هو القلم” - ياسر حارب

42. “I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it.” - Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha

43. “Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.” - Anthony Burgess

44. “Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it.” - Philippe Claudel

45. “I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.” - Wally Lamb

46. “How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.” - Emoke B'Racz

47. “As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exist.” - Steven Redhead

48. “oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” - Barbara Blatner

49. “Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to distinguish between good and evil. Since people exist only in life, they must devote their time simply to being alive. Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move—which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.” - William Faulkner

50. “They are both spectacular, Life and death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

51. “I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.” - Erlend Loe

52. “If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent existence. My thoughts too led to an independent existence.” - Henry Miller

53. “There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design.” - Steve Maraboli

54. “If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.” - Alan Sillitoe

55. “What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.” - Roger Angell

56. “Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.” - Brandon Mull

57. “I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny.” - Shayne Azad

58. “What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.” - Oriana Fallaci

59. “You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you.” - Colleen Hoover

60. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E