40 Life Quotes By Famous People That Will Inspire You

Sunrise at the Peak

1. "Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night"- Marion Howard

2. "A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors." -Buddha

3. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”- Nelson Mandela

4. "I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." -Jimi Hendrix

5. “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” -Oprah Winfrey

6. "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next". -Gilda Radner

7. "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

8. “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 others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most importantly, 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

9. "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

10. "May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have." - Richard L. Evans

11. "Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." - John F. Kennedy

12. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” - Albert Camus

13. "An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity." - Winston Churchill

14. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

15. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." - Mother Theresa

16. "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

17. "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre

18. "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." -Dag Hammarskjold

19. "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." -Oprah Winfrey

20. “Fate is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our 'Actions' predetermine our Destiny, our 'Reactions' seal that fate!" -Carl Stoynoff

21. "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln

22. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Helen Keller

23. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." -Robert Frost

24. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

25. "When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" - Sydney J. Harris

26. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

27. "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." -Kahlil Gibran

28. "One must work and dare if one really wants to live." - Vincent van Gogh

29. "Occasionally in life, there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

30. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

31. "It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead." -William Markiewicz

32. "Life has got to be lived -- that's all there is to it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

33. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

34. "The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be." - Raymond Charles Barker

35. "A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." - May Sarton
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne

36. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi

37. "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

38. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
 
39. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth

40. "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." - Mark Zuckerberg