100 Life Quotes That Will Keep You Happy And Motivated

Life is a wonderful adventure that should be enjoyed to the fullest every day. The fact that life is a wonderful gift does not, however, imply that you always wake up ready to grasp the day.

We could all use a little inspiration and encouragement these days, whether it comes in the form of a humorous saying from a well-known celebrity or a motivating advice about giving it your all from a successful businessperson.

Allow these 150 life quotes for inspiration to give you more vigor whenever you need it. Keep a copy of these inspirational sayings saved on your computer or phone so you may access them whenever you need a little boost.

1.“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

2. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

3. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

4. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."– Thomas A. Edison

6. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."– Albert Einstein

7. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."– Babe Ruth

8. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

9. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

10. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

13. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

14. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

15. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)

16. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

18. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

19. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

20. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

21. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley quote)

22. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

23. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart

24. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

25. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

26. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney

27. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion

28. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)

29. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

30. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

31. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

32. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller

33. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

34. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)

35. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."— Lao-Tze

36. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

37. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra

38. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” - Lillian Dickson

39. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth

40. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost

41. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

42. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

43. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

44. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

45. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Manroe

46. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

47. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

48. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

49. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

50. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

52. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses

53. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

54.  “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse

55. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

56. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

57. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

58. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

59. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

60. “Don’t be afraid to fail. It’s not the end of the world, and in many ways, it’s the first step toward learning something and getting better at it.” — Jon Hamm

61. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

62. “I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.” – Bradley Cooper

63. “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney

64. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda

65. “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone

66. “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” – Chuck Norris

67. “Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante

68. “I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.” – Brad Pitt

69. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

70. “Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

71. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda

72. “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption

73. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —  Paulo Coelho

74. “There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.” — Rick Warren

75. “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” — Elvis Presley

76. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” — Anne Frank

77. “You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.” — Joel Osteen

78. “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” — Jimmy Carter

79. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — Seneca

80. “Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.” — Jennifer Aniston

81. “Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” — George Bernard Shaw

82. “Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.” — Yoda

83. “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha

84. “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” — Albert Camus

85. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

86. “Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.” — Derek Jeter

87. “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” —Vince Lombardi

88. “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” — David DeNotaris

89. “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” — Jennifer Aniston

90. “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod

91. “Find people who will make you better.” — Michelle Obama

92. “As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” — Helen Keller

93. “Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race.” — Paulo Braga

94. “You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.” — Anonymous

95. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.” – T.D. Jakes

96. “You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.” — Anonymous

97. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou

98. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy

99. “You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Kim Kiyosaki

100. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.