Here’s a list of motivational quotes for life, lessons and thoughts from various people on how to live a better life or have greater success and happiness. As with any life advice, not everything will apply to your situation. Pick and choose what you think will work best for you. Many people read these types of quotes about life to find new ideas while others read them to reaffirm what they already know. Regardless of your reason, these words are only words until you actually put them into action.
One of the greatest advice we can give is whatever it is that you want out of life, go after it; don’t leave it up to chance. If it’s something that lots of other people want and there’s a limited supply of it, you better work your butt off because your competition is doing that as you’re reading these words. Success and happiness comes to those who can define what those things mean to them and invite those things into their life by becoming the type of person who would have those things.
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Unknown
“When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” – Bill Shoemaker
“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.” – Anonymous
“To be happy, drop the words ‘if only’ and substitute instead the words ‘next time’.” – Smiley Blanton
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
“Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” – Scottish Proverb
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“Grief does not change you; it reveals you.” – John Green
“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.” – Brendan Francis
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.” – Les Brown
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart
“There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter
“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.” – Brom
“The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis
“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen.” – Chuck Norris
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.” – F. W. Nichol
“Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” – Zig Ziglar
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” – Gerald Jampolsky
“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.” – Jameson Frank
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” – Carol Welch
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” – Brian Tracy
“Look within! The secret is inside you.” – Hui-neng
Here’s a short video with some more inspirational life quotes.
