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550 Best Short Inspirational Quotes For Life (2023)

1. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” Henry David Thoreau


2. “You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein


3. “All emotion is involuntary when genuine.” Mark Twain


4. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan


5. “You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen


6. “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek


7. “A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” – Anthony T. Hincks


8. “Just do it.” Nike


9. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” Maya Angelou


10. “Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.” – Yulia Tymoshenko


11. “You can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp


12. “It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” — Graham Foust


13. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno


14. “Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene


15. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy


16. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


17. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn


18. “Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.”— Lykke Li


19. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler


20. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis


21. “Courage doesn’t always roar.” – Mary Anne Radmacher


22. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin


23. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain


24. “We can always be chasing the sun.” — Sara Bareilles


25. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent


26. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway


27. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James


28. “We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau


29. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Aristotle


30. “You choose the life you live.” – Kim Kiyosaki


31. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —Dalai Lama


32. “One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy


33. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam


34. “When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.” – Richard Lewis


35. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” — Unknown


36. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw


37. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton


38. “People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anaïs Nin


39. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi


40. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne


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


42. “In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.” — James Ellis


43. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle


44. “Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” ― Yoko Ono


45. “Colors are the smiles of nature.”— Leigh Hunt


46. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


47. “Another fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner


48. “Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates


49. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin


50. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney


51. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey


52. “Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail


53. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt


54. “My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi


55. “Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” – Demetri Martin


56. “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke


57. “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé


58. “Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward


59. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” – Robin Williams


60. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens


61. “Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


62. “The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson


63. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain


64. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn


65. “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill


66. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli


67. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse


68. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti


69. “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch


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


71. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale


72. “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” Mark Twain


73. “Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin


74. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


75. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou


76. “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman


77. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder


78. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis


79. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley


80. “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – George Burns


81. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


82. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese


83. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown


84. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy


85. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh


86. “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens


87. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries.” – Anna Taylor


88. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke


89. “When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.” – Mac Miller


90. “Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alrded Lord Tennyson


91. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein


92. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


93. “If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi


94. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie


95. “The person who tries to do everything, ultimately accomplishes nothing.” Robin Sharma


96. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde


97. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill


98. “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin


99. “The trouble is you think you have time.” Buddha


100. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” – Lewis Grizzard


101. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela


102. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius


103. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz


104. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin


105. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm


106. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins


107. “Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” – Debasish Mridha


108. “Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews


109. “Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” —Nanea Hoffman


110. “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” Dr Seuss


111. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder


112. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer


113. “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” — Zeno


114. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor


115. “Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer


116. “People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” – Kirsty Coventry


117. “Every man dies. Not every man lives.” William Wallace


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


119. “Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“ – David Dweck


120. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’Sade


121. “Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy


122. “I believe you make your day. You make your life.” – Brad Pitt


123. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde


124. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood


125. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain


126. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs


127. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer


128. “Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy


129. “Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh


130. “Where there is love there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi


131. “Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks.” – Natalie Portman


132. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln


133. “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King Jr.


134. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie


135. “If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen


136. “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard Shaw


137. “Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus


138. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein


139. “Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman


140. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” Mark Twain


141. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou


142. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus


143. “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block


144. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi


145. “Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” Thich Nhat Hanh


146. “We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero


147. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni


148. “To love at all is to be vulnerable” – C.S. Lewis


149. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee


150. “Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita


151. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss


152. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown


153. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe


154. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet


155. “One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” — Edmond Mbiaka


156. “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” Mark Twain“What we think, we become.” Buddha


157. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark


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


159. “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” —Catherine Pulsifer


160. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt


161. “The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” – Eeyore


162. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller


163. “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius


164. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci


165. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni


166. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”—Kate Summers


167. “Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” – Debasish Mridha


168. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass


169. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” – Elie Wiesel


170. “There are no facts, only interpretations.” Friedrich Nietzsche


171. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith


172. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” Steve Martin


173. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James


174. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin


175. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson


176. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi


177. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese


178. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel


179. “Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury


180. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns


181. “Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.” – J.R. Rim


182. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown


183. “A positive attitude awakens inner strength, energy, motivation, and initiative.” – Remez Sasson


184. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley


185. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Confucius


186. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow


187. “If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke


188. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi


189. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary


190. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.


191. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles R. Swindoll


192. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche


193. “A jug fills drop by drop.” Buddha


194. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard


195. “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make It.” – Marcus Aurelius


196. “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs


197. “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich


198. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith


199. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton


200. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln


201. “What’s done is done.” – William Shakespeare


202. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy


203. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo


204. “Every sunset is also a sunrise; it all depends on where you stand.” – Karl Schmidt


205. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


206. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball


207. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney


208. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu


209. “I don’t think you can define love.” – Harry Styles


210. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay


211. “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes


212. “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Suess


213. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”- Regina Brett


214. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt


215. “The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro


216. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z


217. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino


218. “Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle


219. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ―Martha Graham


220. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson


221. “Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei


222. “We need much less than we think we need.” Maya Angelou


223. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius


224. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet


225. “Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse


226. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.


227. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein


228. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William G.T. Shedd


229. “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” — Claude Monet


230. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella


231. “Thank goodness for the first snow.” — Candace Bushnell


232. “We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille


233. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins


234. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers


235. “No guts no glory.” – General Frederick Corbin Blesse


236. “It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management” — Alexandra of The Productivity Zone


237. “It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream” – Bernard Williams


238. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde


239. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson


240. “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


241. “It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant


242. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall


243. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill


244. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou


245. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead


246. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball


247. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau


248. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.” ― George Meredith


249. “People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu


250. “Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie


251. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi


252. “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.”—Diane McLaren


253. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher


254. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu


255. “Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”— Standing Bear


256. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown


257. “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett


258. “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid


259. “Whatever you do, do it well.” Walt Disney


260. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison


261. “You are your choices.” – Seneca


262. “And still I rise.” Maya Angelou


263. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”


264. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde


265. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu


266. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche


267. “Opportunities don't happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser


268. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright


269. “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” – Winnie the Pooh


270. “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy


271. “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” — Lady Gaga


272. “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” — Vince Lombardi


273. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


274. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha


275. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus


276. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali


277. “Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business” — Cindy Gallop


278. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez


279. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein


280. “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle


281. “Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett


282. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope


283. “I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.” – Jake Owen


284. “Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho


285. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law


286. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West


287. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


288. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg


289. “Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters


290. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch


291. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings


292. “I just need you and some sunsets” – Atticus


293. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin


294. “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama


295. “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis


296. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle


297. “Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets


298. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson


299. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz


300. “Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.” – George Herbert


301. “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu


302. “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller


303. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela


304. “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis


305. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” — Ayn Rand


306. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean


307. “Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne


308. “Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again.” – Zelig Pliskin


309. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley


310. “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire


311. “If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski


312. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant


313. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk


314. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso


315. “I want to be with you until my last page.” – A.R. Asher


316. “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss


317. “Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler


318. “Why do spring and summer have to go?” – Joe Wheeler


319. “In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown


320. “What we think, we become.” —Buddha


321. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot


322. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee


323. “We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.” Robin Sharma


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


325. “Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.” —Paul Graham


326. “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis


327. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett


328. “Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” –Anmol Andore


329. “We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castenada


330. “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina


331. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens


332. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams


333. “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.” Dalai Lama


334. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor


335. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey


336. “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban


337. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski


338. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs


339. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”


340. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius


341. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou


342. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende


343. “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell


344. “And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou


345. “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” – Sheryl Sandberg


346. “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones


347. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi


348. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain


349. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi


350. “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson


351. “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson


352. “Always wear cute pajamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.” – Joel Madden


353. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson


354. “When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy


355. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump


356. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius


357. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on It.” – Danny Kaye


358. “It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” – P. C. Cast


359. “Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys


360. “You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long


361. “I can, therefore I am.” Simone Weil


362. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard


363. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie


364. “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller


365. “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring.” – Gerard Manley Hopkins


366. “Sunset is the opening music of the night.”― Mehmet Murat ildan


367. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill


368. “Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz


369. “It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer


370. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan


371. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar


372. “It is growing cold. Winter is puuting footsteps in the meadow.” – Roman Payne


373. “Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” – Lindy Hughes


374. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm


375. “May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift


376. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson


377. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran


378. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “ — Alexander Graham Bell


379. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman


380. “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.


381. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln


382. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso


383. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Augustine Og Mandino


384. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain


385. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus


386. “We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost


387. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown


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


389. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” Maya Angelou


390. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle


391. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


392. “Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.” — Debasish Mridha


393. “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas


394. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi


395. “Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson


396. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” Dr Seuss


397. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw


398. “Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus


399. “Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise


400. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” Dr Seuss


401. “Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols


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


403. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln


404. “There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison


405. “Think and wonder, wonder and think.” Dr Seuss


406. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs


407. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” Helen Keller


408. “Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams.” – Israelmore Ayivor


409. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot


410. “If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson


411. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford


412. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden


413. “That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…” – Charlie Brown


414. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken


415. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”. – Emily Brontë


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


417. “Winter is a time to slow.” — Kelsi Turner


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


419. “Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb


420. “Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais


421. “I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson


422. “Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” – Roy T. Bennett


423. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius


424. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche


425. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle


426. “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning


427. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard


428. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi


429. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur


430. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux


431. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” W. Clement Stone


432. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes


433. “The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley


434. “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin


435. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey


436. “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” —Charlie Munger


437. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” Bruce Lee


438. “Everything looks cute when it’s small.” – Cynthia Rawley


439. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius


440. “No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep


441. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


442. “Recognize what you have inside you.” – Eric Pulier


443. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson


444. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


445. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius


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


447. “Do good and good will come to you.” —Adam Lowy


448. “When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha


449. “Life is wasted on the living.” Douglas Adams


450. “A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods


451. “There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.” Thich Nhat Hanh


452. “Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” – Paulo Coelho


453. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean


454. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra


455. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn


456. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet


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


458. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly


459. “Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman


460. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius


461. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” John Keats


462. “Live life to the fullest.” – Ernest Hemingway


463. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan


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


465. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey


466. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa


467. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”— Eleanor Roosevelt


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


469. “Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer


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


471. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” Buddha


472. “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer


473. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda


474. “Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett


475. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde


476. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” —The Dalai Lama


477. “Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce


478. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh


479. “Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.” – Chinese proverb


480. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl


481. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill


482. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried


483. “You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —John Graham


484. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda


485. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.” – Yoko Ono


486. “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn


487. “I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton


488. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins


489. “Someone will declare, “I am the leader!” and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.” ―Bill Walsh


490. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers


491. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe


492. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” —Kurt Vonnegut


493. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan


494. “I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers


495. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie


496. ”I’m here. I love you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert


497. “Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero


498. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine


499. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard


500. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford


501. ”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning


502. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus


503. “Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz


504. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu


505. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama


506. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama


507. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill


508. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost


509. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey


510. “I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda


511. “Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle


512. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess


513. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”- Sam Keen


514. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln


515. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan


516. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker


517. “Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company.” – Samantha Camargo


518. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart


519. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha


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


521. “Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott


522. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder


523. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


524. “All limitations are self-imposed.” Oliver Wendell Holmes


525. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler


526. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” ― Roseanne Barr


527. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca


528. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle


529. “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman


530. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell


531. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” ― T D Jakes


532. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton


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


534. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche


535. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


536. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller


537. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar


538. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden


539. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau


540. “Challenges are what make life interesting.” – Joshua Marine


541. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” —Bill Gates


542. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan


543. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy


544. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” Dr Seuss


545. “See the beauty of sunset to enjoy the passion of life.” – Debasish Mridha


546. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller


547. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn


548. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King


549. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller


550. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” — Unknown

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