"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." — Maya Angelou
"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground." — Rosa Parks
"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." — Ralph Ellison
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." — William Faulkner
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." — Eudora Welty
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." — Johnny Cash
"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." — Billy Graham
"You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do." — Barbara Bush
"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome." — Fannie Flagg
"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events." — Joel Osteen
"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me." — Loretta Lynn
"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow." — Ralph Ellison
Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part." — Emeril Lagasse
"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
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." — Helen Keller
"Now it's the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that's what life is all about." — Joanna Gaines
"The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day." — Julia Roberts
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
"If I'd have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I'd be really tired." — Willie Nelson
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." — Jackie Robinson
"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." — Eudora Welty
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love." — Johnny Cash
"Never lose sight of the face that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people." — Barbara Bush
"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." — Ann Richards
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." — Mark Twain
"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." — Maya Angelou
"I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." — Rosa Parks
"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." — Beyoncé Knowles
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. -C.S. Lewis
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, '"What are you doing for others?" -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone." — Reba McEntire
Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good. -Reese Witherspoon
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. -Wanda Sykes
It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough. -Michelle Yeoh
I've been very fortunate to have good people in my life, and when you find good people, you gotta hold onto them real tight. -Lana Condor
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself. -Zanele Muholi
Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. -Tina Turner
If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself. -Ava DuVernay
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving. -Freida Pinto
I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you. -Priyanka Chopra
I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. -Serena Williams
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. -Oprah Winfrey
"When life hands you a difficult situation where you feel undervalued and disrespected, be bold and brave enough to know your worth." -Yai Vargas
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." -Oprah Winfrey
"Our life and our success will be measured by the quality of the life we lead and the lives we touch." -Sandra X Pradas Martin
“There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” -Rita Dove
“Life isn’t perfect, any failures you have are actually learning moments. They teach us how to grow and evolve.” -Phillipa Soo
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” -Bruce Lee
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." -James Baldwin
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” -Gabriel García Márquez
“I know you can't live on hope alone. But without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: You got to give them hope. You got to give them hope!” -Harvey Milk
“I intend to live life, not just exist.” -George Takei
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” -Gabriel García Márquez
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” -Frank Sinatra
“In order to write about life first you must live it.” -Ernest Hemingway
“Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.” -Earl G. Graves, Sr.
"Stay strong as you live your life story and remember your blessings, no matter what circumstances you face. -Dr. Damary M. Bonilla-Rodriguez
"Collaboration, creativity, and respect build life long connections that matter and make a difference, propelling us to work together across all boundaries." -Diane Luna
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” -Langston Hughes
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” -Dalai Lama
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington
“When you are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … Someone has to do this.” -Alice Nkom
"Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself." -Al Roker
"When I stand before God at the end of my. life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say 'I used everything you gave me'." -Erma Bombeck
"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise." -George Gershwin
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality, let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." -Lao Tzu
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." -A.A. Milne
"Live to the point of tears." -Albert Camus
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." -Annette Funicello
"Control your emotions, control your mind, Control your mind, control your actions. Control your actions, control your life." -Anthony Pompliano
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" -Bob Marley
"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us." -Boris Pasternak
"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read." -Cassandra Clare
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." -Charles Darwin
"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." -Charles M. Schluz
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -Coco Chanel
"Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it." -Colleen Hoover
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it." -D. H. Lawrence
"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals." -David Ogilvy
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live." -Dorothy West
I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." -Edna Mode
"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
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet." -Emily Dickinson
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed." -Eminem
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for." -Jennifer Lopez
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." -Frederick Douglass
"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion." -Gary Vaynerchuk
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -George Lorimer
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." -Havelock Ellis
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." -Henry David Thoreau
"If you say you can or you can't you are right either way." -Henry Ford
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -Herman Melville
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." -Jane Goodall
"Things are beautiful if you love them." -Jean Anouilh
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." -Jim Rohn
"A secret to life: Know that none of this matters, and yet... live as if every single moment does." -Kamal Ravikant
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." -Les Brown
"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life." -Louise Hay
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -Mae West
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." -Margaret Mitchell
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." -Mark Twain
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" -Mary Anne Radmacher
"Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless." -Maxime Legacé
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." -Michael Cunningham
"Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you." -Michelle Obama
"Three things in life - your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it." -Naval Ravikant
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." -O. Henry
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself." -Rick Riordan
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." -Rose Kennedy
"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy." -Roy. T. Bennett
"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down." -Roy T. Bennett
"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy." -Sai Baba
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -Stephen Covey
We pass through this world but once." -Stephen Jay Gould
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" -Sydney J. Harris
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." -T.S. Eliot
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." -Vernon Howard
"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." -Vince Lombardi
"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." -William Hazlitt
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." -William Osler
"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth." -Zhuangzi
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
“Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry
“There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.” – Stephen Curry
“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” – Joan Rivers
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” – Doctor Who
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default."
“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
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
“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.”
“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
"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.” — selfmadequotes
"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
"As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in." — Helen Keller
"Find people who will make you better." — Michelle Obama
"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning." — John McLeod
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons." — Jennifer Aniston
"As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give." — David DeNotaris
"Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority." —Vince Lombardi
"Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person." — Derek Jeter
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." — Oprah Winfrey
"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully." — Albert Camus
"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." — Buddha
"Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself." — Yoda
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby." — George Bernard Shaw
"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." — Jennifer Aniston
"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." — Seneca
"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." — Jimmy Carter
"You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence." — Joel Osteen
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." — Anne Frank
"You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore." — Elvis Presley
"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
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying." — Shawshank Redemption
"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
“Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson
“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
“Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante
“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
“You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda
“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
"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
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
"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
"There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that." — Derek Jeter
“When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”— Seneca
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius
“The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”-Socrates
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
“Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." – Omar Khayyam
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway." — Anonymous
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of." – Bruce Lee
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." – Sholom Aleichem
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."– Buddha
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …” – Steve Jobs
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." —Mahatma Gandhi
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." —Ellen DeGeneres
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." —Audrey Hepburn
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." —Warren Buffett
"There are no mistakes, only opportunities." —Tina Fey
"Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow." —Jay-Z
"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." —Michael Jordan
"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve." —Jeff Bezos
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." —J. K. Rowling
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." —Mary Kay Ash
"We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness." —Hillary Clinton
"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people." —Leonardo DiCaprio
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." —Dr. Seuss
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." —Morris West
"When you cease to dream you cease to live." —Malcolm Forbes
"Every moment is a fresh beginning." —T.S. Eliot
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." —Frank Lloyd Wright
"Life is short, and it is here to be lived." —Kate Winslet
"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person." —Bill Clinton
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." —Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." —Neil Armstrong
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown
"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
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." – Babe Ruth
"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
"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." — Kevin Kruse
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
“Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ― Robert Frost
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love." — Wordsworth
"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." — Lillian Dickson
"The healthiest response to life is joy." — Deepak Chopra
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another." — Helen Keller
"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
