85 Inspirational Quotes About Life

Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, moments of joy and periods of reflection. Sometimes, the right words have the power to change our perspective, uplift our spirit, and spark inspiration. That's where a well-crafted quote comes in. Our daily lives can often benefit from a little encouragement or a reminder of the beauty and potential that surrounds us. With this in mind, we've carefully curated a collection of the top 85 inspirational quotes about life. Whether you're looking for motivation to pursue your dreams, wisdom to guide your decisions, or simply a comforting thought to brighten your day, these quotes are sure to resonate and inspire.

1. “Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.” - Henry James

2. “Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” - Ayn Rand

3. “Where do thoughts come from, Father?”King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.” - Darryl Steven Markowitz

4. “It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ''No! I know what true Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game…unless demons…NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel!” - Darryl Steven Markowitz

5. “Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.” - Po Bronson

6. “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

7. “You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.” - Christine E. Schulze

8. “I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” - C. JoyBell C.

9. “They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!” - C. JoyBell C.

10. “Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.” - C. JoyBell C.

11. “If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.” - C. JoyBell C.

12. “If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?” - C. JoyBell C.

13. “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.

14. “I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!” - C. JoyBell C.

15. “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

16. “Negativity is never an option” - Steve Lopez

17. “I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.” - Jenny Downham

18. “Even though the circumstances surrounding your conception may make you wonder whether your life was just some accident, let me tell you that your life is no accident! Before you were born, before you were even conceived, God already knew you. He knew your likes and dislikes, your passions and desires. He also had in mind a specific purpose for bringing you into the world, otherwise you would not exist.” - Corallie Buchanan

19. “I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful.” - Helen Keller

20. “Ceea ce nu e destul nu e nimic.” - Octavian Paler

21. “How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” - Anne Frank

22. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” - Bohdi Sanders

23. “That which you manifest is before you.The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.” - Garth Stein

24. “و قد تسألين كيف ارتقت به هذه العظمة الكاذبة من درجة الى درجة، و من مكانة الى مكانة، و لكني أرجو أن تكوني أقل سذاجة من هذا يا سيدتي، فليس ينبغي أن تسألي عن الضعفاء و العاجزين كيف يرتفعون فذلك ملائم لطبيعة الاشياء، و انما يجب أن تسألي عن الأكفاء كيف يثبتون في مواضعهم و كيف يتاح لبعضهم أن يرقى إلى شئ من امتياز المنصب و ارتفاع المكانة فذلك هو المخالف للطبيعة، المباين لمنطق الدنياكما يقول أديب من أصدقائنا” - طه حسين

25. “Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am.” - C. JoyBell C.

26. “Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now.” - C. JoyBell C.

27. “[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.” - A.C. Ping

28. “Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.” - Richie singh

29. “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

30. “The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.” - C. JoyBell C.

31. “Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.” - Wahida Clark

32. “Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.” - me

33. “Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?” - C. JoyBell C.

34. “Jika kebetulan terjadi terlalu banyak, seorang ilmuwan akan mencari pola, dan seorang beriman akan mencari Tuhan” - Ayu Utami

35. “Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?” - S. Cameron Roach

36. “Uzmi osmeh idaruj ga onome ko ga nikad nije imao.Uzmi zrak sunca iučini da odleti tamo gde vlada noć.Otkrij izvor iokupaj onoga ko živi u blatu.Uzmi suzu ipoloži je na lice onoga ko nikad nije plakao.Uzmi hrabrost istavi je u dušu onoga ko se ne sme boriti.Otkrij život ipripovedaj o njemu onome ko ga ne može shvatiti.Uzmi nadu iživi u njenoj svetlosti.Uzmi dobrotu idaruj je onome ko ne zna darivati.Otkrij ljubav ipokaži je čitavom svetu.” - Mahatma Gandhi

37. “I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.” - Richard P. Feynman

38. “keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.” - Keydia Marie

39. “You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.” - Sterling W. Sill

40. “Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.” - Michael Treanor

41. “Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.” - Michael Treanor

42. “Food is a creative, personal journey” - Michael Treanor

43. “A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.” - Michael Treanor

44. “When I think I can’t go anymore, I go anyway.” - Michael Treanor

45. “When something is impossible, I do it anyway.” - Michael Treanor

46. “Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” - C. JoyBell C.

47. “Then I closed my eyes.That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.” - Jennifer Castle

48. “We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.” - Ernest Shackleton

49. “For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.” - C. JoyBell C.

50. “Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.” - Darlene Craviotto

51. “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.

52. “Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes.” - Jose Enrique Rodo

53. “Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over.” - Charles Dickens

54. “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

55. “A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance at? That's true failure.” - C. JoyBell C.

56. “All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.” - Shantideva

57. “Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.” - Giacomo Leopardi

58. “No hay mayor decepción en la vida que darnos cuenta de que fuimos incapaces de enterarnos de un grande e leal amigo que siempre estuvo allí a nuestro lado, a nuestro lado toda una vida. Un amigo siempre presente e sin siquiera darle algún valor o atención. Eso se debe a que los verdaderos amigos no necesitan de brillar para que sean vistos. Nosotros si que tenemos que tener esa percepción para poder descubrir-los. Gracias querida amiga soledad por no haberme decepcionado nunca!Autor: Sergio Correia.Warrington, 20.08.2012” - Sergio Figueira Correia

59. “I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you’ve been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.” - Kathryn Vance-Perez

60. “I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us.....” - Miguel Angel Puma

61. “Forgive but never forget” - sanaa bahaddou

62. “The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.” - Marissa Haddlin

63. “It's what you do right now that makes a difference.” - Mark Bowden

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

65. “listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine” - Jim Britts

66. “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

67. “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

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

69. “If you don't know yourself then take time to find yourself” - Nitra Gipson

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. “Sometimes there are things we don't understand even about ourselves. Sometimes we run out of the time to keep trying to unravel them, and we have to sit back and content ourselves with a shrug. But I think there are some things that we'd never understand even if we had forever to wonder. There are things that - even if we had unnumbered lifetimes to think about them - we still wouldn't know.” - Jennifer Dubois

72. “If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.” - Dumebi Onwordi-Okonji

73. “There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” - Theodore Roosevelt

74. “Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations” - Ralph Charell

75. “I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire life. Here are some of the main keys to being more successful:Take personal responsibility.Things change, so be flexible.Work smart and work hard.Serve others well.Be nice to others.Be optimistic. Have goals; want something big for yourself.Stay focused.Keep learning.Become excellent at what you do.Trust your gut.When in doubt, take action.Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.Enjoy all you've got.Above all keep it simple.” - Larry Winget

76. “God does not deal with denomination, He deals with nomination and conformation for a higher life.” - vincent ameh

77. “على لسان الشيخ أحمد ياسين .. والله انت عارف ، أنا انسان عشت حياتي أملي واحد ، أملي يرضى الله عني ، ورضاه لا يكتسب إلا بطاعته، وطاعة الله تتمثل في الجهاد من أجل إعلاء كلمة الله في الأرض، ومن أجل تطهيرأرض الله من الفساد الذي يقيمه أعداء الله، في الأرض ، فإذا ما حققت الهدف الأول وهو تطهير الأرض الاسلامية من الاغتصاب وقام عليها النظام الاسلامي ، فهذه هي أمنيتي التي أسعى اليها وأرجو الله أن ألقاه عليها ، فإذا تحققت فذلك فضله ، وإن مت قبل أن تتحقق أكون قد بدأت الطريق وخطوت خطوات (والله غالب على أمره ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون )” - أحمد منصور

78. “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

79. “I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance” - Jon Stewart

80. “Banyak orang berpikir bahwa mimpi hanya dapat diraih kala ada uang. Padahal semangat, komitmen, dan kerja keras adalah modal yang paling utama.” - Jeffrey Polnaja

81. “Our part in life is to persevere and learn as quickly as we can, for our victory depends upon our perception of the world".” - Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

82. “The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?” - Courtney Worth Young

83. “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

84. “The past is what it was in a flash” - Isaiah Wallowingbull

85. “write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.” - Isabel Allende