173 Inspirational Quotes About Living Your Life

Favorite Quotes About Life 

1. “People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
2. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray
3. “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” ― Ernest Hemingway
4. “Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” ― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
5. “To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
6. “Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
7. “One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ― Dale Carnegie
8. “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. “If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.” ― David Deida
10. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ― Horace
11. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ― Mark Twain
12. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
13. “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
14. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” ― C. JoyBell C.
15. “I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun. ” ― George Plimpton
16. “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” ― Malcolm X
17. “The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ” ― Henry David Thoreau
18. “I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.” ― Daniel Willey
19. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
20. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard
21. “You’re not living if you’re not regretting.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
22. “There’s a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.” ― John Connolly, The Infernals
23. “Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.” ― Mandy Hale
24. “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” ― Shannon L. Alder
25. “I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.” ― Karl Pilkington
26. “Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the more intense the life. Then you will have lived; and a few hours of such life are worth years spent vegetating.” ― Pyotr Kropotkin
27. “Don’t just survive. Shine.” ― Tom Fletcher 
28. “Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.” ― Richie Norton
29. “Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.” ― Germany Kent
30. “A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.” ― Suzy Kassem
31. “The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.” ― Erwin Raphael McManus
32. “Be brave and take risks… You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” ― Roy Bennett
33. “We need to judge less and understand more.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
34. “Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.” ― Robin Bertram
35. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard
36. “Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.” ― Victor Shamas
37. “All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.” ― Karen Essex
38. “Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.” ― Julieanne O’Connor
39. “Life is about daily moment-by-moment experiences. Many of us don’t focus on these moments.” ― Melissa Heisler
40. “Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.” ― Amit Ray
41. “Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.” ― Jack Kerouac
42. “If your life has no problems, you’re not really living it.” ― Ryan Higa
43. “Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.” ― Matt Simpson
44. “Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.” ― Simona Panova
45. “The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.” ― Suzy Kassem
46. “Trusting yourself means you dare walk alone.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
47. “The good news is that you are alive. The essential thing is that you must live” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
48. “The best way to die is when you’re living.” ― Alice Hoffman
49. “Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: ‘If it’s not about Christ, it’s not about life.” ― Criss Jami
50. “I look up at the sky again and whisper, ‘I will live for you.” ― Emma Thomas, Live for Me
51. “You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana
52. “Some people never take a chance and never know what it’s like to live life to the full.” ― Chloe Thurlow
53. “Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.” ― Suzy Kassem
54. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” ― Roy Bennett
55. “May you find your purpose and passionately live it.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
56. “When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life… and you lead.” ― Steve Maraboli
57. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.” ― Roy Bennett
58. “You don’t decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.” ― Bob Proctor
59. “Its hard to die. Harder to live” ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
60. “Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree
61. “Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.” ― Osho
62. “In all of your living, don’t forget to live.” ― Ricky Maye
63. “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.” ― T.F. Hodge
64. “Live your day and live it well. It’s yours whether you want it or not.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
65. “Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.” ― Natsume Sōseki
66. “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ― Roy Bennett
67. “When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.” ― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
68. “Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.” ― Shannon L. Alder
69. “The best way to die is when you’re living.” ― Alice Hoffman
70. “We all know we’re one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it’s not happening.” ― Rachel Ward, Numbers
71. “You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana
72. “Real living is living for others.” ― Bruce Lee
73. “Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go – backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.” ― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
74. “Failing at what you love doing isn’t failure” ― Eche Agubata
75. “You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.” ― Uncle Remus
76. “It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.” ― Aniruddha Sastikar
77. “Don’t worry and don’t hurry and your days will be long.” ― Deliaha Hicks
78. “When you live day by day, you change day by day.” ― Marty Rubin
79. “In the end, it is not about winning or losing; it is about living.” ― Anastasia Bitkova
80. “One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive.” ― Audre Lorde
81. “What advantage do the living have? LIFE!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
82. “A lover and a fighter — the last of a dying breed.” ― Drue Grit
83. “Life emerges when something is alive and living.” ― Joey Lawsin, Originemology
84. “We are living our life for the happiness of mind and if we are every time binding our mind, how can we live happy?” ― Pranita P Deshpande
85. “Life is live to fulfill a daring dream.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
86. “Live for the pleasure of living, that is enough.” ― Marty Rubin
87. “Live for living’s sake, for the pleasure of living. That is enough.” ― Marty Rubin
88. “Life is an experience.” ― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
89. “There’s no such thing as living a good life without having a fair bit of dirt in it.” ― Aven Ellis
90. “Yeah, but just being alive doesn’t mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important.” ― Genki Kawamura
91. “Chances we don’t take turn into dreams we will forget.” ― Laura Chouette
92. “Learning is living, the internal process to make the meaning, the cause of knowledge, the nectar of life.” ― Anand Patwa
93. “I don’t like to think about life too much; it gets in the way of living it.” ― Marty Rubin
94. “Why can’t you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.” ― Iris Murdoch
95. “Living a life of service brings me complete joy” ― Charmaine J. Forde
96.  “Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”  ― Albert Einstein
97. “Live for today – Understand the past, forget the mistakes. Remember the lesson. Heal the PTSD and live the life you deserve.” ― Tracy Malone
98. “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to a hundred.” ― Woody Allen
99. “I love that this morning’s sunrise does not define itself by last night’s sunset.” – Steve Maraboli
100. “Remember: life is ours to spend, not to keep.” ― Marty Rubin
101. “Living is for-giving; love, acceptance, forgiveness.” ― Wald Wassermann
102. “To live ‘for’ myself is to live ‘by’ myself. And do I really want to do that ‘to’ myself?” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
103. “Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.” ― Lolly Daskal
104. “Here’s what I’ve learned: there’s more than one way to live.” ― Marty Rubin
105. “Live life to the fullest because it only happens once.” – Maddi Jenkins
106. “You can’t have boredom and happiness living under the same roof. If we are able to manage our boredom, we can easily manage our happiness.” ― Awdhesh Singh
107. “Life is full of shit, and that’s Okay. Part of living is to get your shit together.” ― Vivek Thangaswamy
108. “Living in bliss is the ability to appreciate all.” ― Pam Malow-Isham
109. “The currency of living is money; the real currency of life is love.” ― Debasish Mridha
110. “One should live as if living were all that mattered.” ― Marty Rubin
111. “The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death.” ― Kamand Kojouri
112. “I have to force myself to make a life before the one I’m not living swallows me whole” ― Colleen Hoover
113. “Live everyday as though it were your last day of life, and learn everyday as if it was your first day.” ― GE Paulus
114. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” – Anais Nin
115. “You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
116. “A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
117. “Living without awareness is like losing blood. Being aware is like drinking the wine from the holy chalice.” ― Alan Maiccon
118. “To live free is to liberate yourself from all fears….” ― Husam Wafaei
119. “Caring is a trait of the living. Not of the dead.” ― Carrie Ryan
120. “Being alive is not a miracle, feeling alive is.” ― Amit Abraham
121. “I have no idea whatever how I should live. I simply do what I do.” ― Marty Rubin
122. “If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition; we live with death, and die not in a moment.” ― Thomas Browne
123. “You are what you do, not what you say you do.” – Carl Jung
124. “Life is always just to learn.” ― Will Advise
125. “When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.” ― Clarice Lispector
126. “The idea of life is maximizing your time and living and effective life” ― Sunday Adelaja
127. “Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.” ― Lolly Daskal
128. “Life is too short to spend it living for mundane things” ― Topsy Gift
129. “Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.” ― Karina Bliss
130. “Positive thoughts, positive life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
131. “The only person you should strive to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” – Matty Mullins
132. “Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams” ― Bobby Darnell
133. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
134. “I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.” ― James Hauenstein
135. “I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.” ― Anaïs Nin
136. “Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life’s journey that matter.” ― Michael Delaware
137. “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.” – Mark Cuban
138. “Life is lie, Living is the truth.” ― Naresh Soni
139. “The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.” ― Kathleen Rooney
140. “Less thinking, more living.” ― S.R. Crawford
141. “Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.” ― D.S. Mixell
142. “It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
143. “When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (“Is that all there is?” ― Erik Pevernagie
144. “The strangest things in life, are often closer to reality, than reality would like to admit.” ― Anthony L.S.
145. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale
146. “Everyone dies but not everyone truly lives.” ― Chris Guillebeau
147. “In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.” ― Suzy Kassem
148. “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Breault
149. “As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going.” ― Darren Shan
150. “Didn’t know where I was going. Didn’t care where I ended up. I knew I’d be okay though.” ― Darnell Lamont Walker
151. “The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.” ― Korey G. Miracle
152. “I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.” ― Shannon L. Alder
153. “The good news is that you are alive. The essential thing is that you must live” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
154. “Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today.” ― Fakeer Ishavardas
155. “But if everything’s already decided, then what’s the point of living?” ― Joseph Delaney
156. “Just around the bend, a miracle is waiting to happen. Release fear and uncertainty, and majestic wonders wait to unfold for you.” – Denise Linn 
157. “What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.” ― Marty Rubin
158. “If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember – he likes the lie, not you.” ― Azim Jamal
159. “If you don’t take life seriously, life will take you, seriously!” ― Ana Claudia Antunes
160. “The courage to live brings its own rewards.” ― Rachel L. Schade
161. “Living is not the sole purpose of life—loving is.” ― Debasish Mridha
162. “My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
163. “Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” – Michelle Obama 
164. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” – Eric Butterworth
165. “We are dust and to dust we shall return.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
166. “Those who want to start a new journey, there are always new roads open for you” ― Aida Mitsu
167. “Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.” ― Shannon L. Alder
168. “Live your greatest dreams.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
169. “Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.” ― Andrea T. Goeglein
170. “Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.” ― Albert Camus
171. “Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?” ― Dominic Riccitello
172. “Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self” ― Sunday Adelaja
173. “We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.” – Greta Thunberg

 Conclusion

I hope that these motivational quotes have inspired you to be the best version of yourself in your everyday life.

There’s no doubt that life is a daring adventure, and as long as we live, it’s never too late to begin our search for happiness and mission in life.

Best of luck!