Are you a big fan of quotes? Well you are in for a treat. We have compiled a list of 130 of the most inspiring quotes about happiness, success, courage, character, love, and life in general. Remember to share this with your friends and revisit this post for a boost of motivation!
The 130 Quotes
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars - Kahlil Gibran
- Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be. - Eckhart Tolle
- The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
- It is our darkest moments that we must focus on the light. - Aristotle Onassis
- Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
- In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby
- Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
- 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. - Steve Jobs
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. - Bruce Lee [Click to Tweet the quote]
- In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
- Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
- You cannot dream yourself into character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau
- Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker
- Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown
- Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. - Larry Winget
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Goethe
- Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill
Quotes about waking up early
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy Goodman
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
- If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. - Bruce Lee
- Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen Covey
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. - James Cameron
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
- The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. - Randy Pausch
- The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee
- A year from now you will wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb
- Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. - Walter Anderson
- Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. - Jim Rohn
- Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robinson
- 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 Vivekenanda
- Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. - Paulo Coelho
- Little by little, a little becomes a lot. - Tanzanian Proverb
- Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. - Albert Camus
- You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. - Abraham Lincoln
- It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata
- Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
- Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. - Dennis Kimbro
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi
- Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington
- It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings
- It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
- Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
- If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power
- If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. - Fred Devito
- Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't do. - Rikki Rogers
- Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Earl Nightingale
- Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. - Lou Holtz
- If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
- There is no education like adversity. - Disraeli
- Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown
- Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. - Pat Riley
- I've missed more than 9,000 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
- Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from. - Seth Godin
- There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
- The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett
- And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
- If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. - Jim Rohn
- Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past. - Jack Kornfield
- Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence
- I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
- Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. - Will Rogers
- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
- Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
- Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
- A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make. - Denis Waitley
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
- If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
- 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. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs
- We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. - Randy Pausch
- Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out. - Randy Pausch
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Ganhdi
- 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
- Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. - Unknown
- If you can't be criticized for it, it's probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism? - Unknown
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
- Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln
- If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King Jr.
- Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
- Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
- For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
- To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
- The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
- Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
- Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman
- The harder you practice, the luckier you get. - Gary Player
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein
- In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
- When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful. - Eric Thomas
- I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt
- The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine
- You've got what it takes but it's going to take everything you've got. - Unknown
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
- I hated every minute of training, but I said Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammad Ali
- The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. - Randy Pausch
- Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got. - Robert Brault
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. - Wendell Berry
- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard
- We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will. - Chuck Palahniuk
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou
- The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammed Ali
- Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie
- We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.- C. Joybell C.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller
- To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder
- Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein
- Love is more than a noun - it is a verb; it is more than a feeling - it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. - William Arthur Ward
