I love quotes about life.

When I was a kid, I had this huge quote book and I loved all the quotes about life.  I guess I didn’t love it enough to know where it is today but that’s because the internet came along and limitless quotes were at my fingertips!

This is my curated list.

The following are some of my favorites.  I think I love quotes so much is because they tend to say so much with a few words.

Quotes are life truths in bite-sizes.

They encourage me and remind me that my experience is not so unique that it cannot be endured, overcome and perhaps even enjoyed.

Share your favorite quotes in the comments below and I’ll feature it in an upcoming post.  Or tell me your favorite number from my list.

With no further ado, here are…

99 Quotes About Life

1. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
   
2. Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. – Jackie Joyner-Kersey
3. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. – John Wooden
4. When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. – Terry Bradshaw
5. 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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
6. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas
7. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”!  -Audrey Hepburn
8. When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. – Paul Brown
9. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.  -Winston Churchill
11. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
12. Never underestimate your strength, never overestimate your weakness.
13. The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. – Joe Paterno
14. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
15. Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. – William Ward
16. If you learn from defeat, you really haven’t lost.
17. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson
18. I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope
19. A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. —J.P. Morgan
20. If you don’t sacrifice for what you want- what you want becomes he sacrifice.
21. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
22. Take care of your thoughts when you are alone.  Take care of your words when you are with others.
23. When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.
24. Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. – Sam Walton
25. If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right. So believe in yourself.
26. Everything you can imagine is real.  -Pablo Picasso
27. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! – Jonathan Winters
28. Don’t run away from challenges, run over them.
29. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
30. By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.  -Edwin Elliot
31. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
32. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them. – Seth Godin
33. Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.
34. A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence.
35. You will never have this day again, so make it count.
36. Change is inevitable, but transformation is a conscious choice.
37. Still, like air, I rise. – Maya Angelou
38. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
39. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. –Hellen Keller
40. You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
41. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.  -Oprah Winfrey
42. The best revenge… is no revenge at all.  Move on.  Be happy. 
43. Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. – Pope John XXIII
44. Where hope grows, miracles blossom.
45. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
46. The price of greatness is responsibility. – Sir Winston Churchill
47. The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life. – Hal Elrod
48. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
49. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
50. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
51. If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. -Zig ZiglarThe fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. – Vincent Van Gogh
52. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. – Sir Winston Churchill
53. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.  -Anne Frank
54. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
55. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
56. You know more than you think. Trust yourself.
57. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser like focus.” Bruce Lee
58. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
59. Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. – Benjamin Franklin
60. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
61. Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter.
62. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.  -John Maxwell
63. Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.  -Jack Canfield
64. Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. – Alice Walker
65. Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. – Tom Robbins
66. Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dream into reality. – James Womack
67. Thinking big but acting small is the same as thinking small.  -Mike Dooley
68. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
69. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller
70. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. – Melodie Beattie
71. Never let success go to your head. never let failure go to your heart.
72. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein
73. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
74. There’s hardly any traffic on the extra mile.
75. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.  -Winston Churchill
76. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden
77. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  – Thich Nhat Hanh
78. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
    -Victor Frankl
79. We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.   – Stephen Covey
80. And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.   – Abraham Lincoln
81. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.   – Mohandas Ghandi
82. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:38-39
83. Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.   – Joshua J. Marine
84. Friends and good manners will carry you where money will not.  -Margaret Walker
85. It is never too late to be what we might have been.   – George Eliot
86. This, too, shall pass.   – Jewish proverb
87. The only way to have a friend is to be one.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. Fall in love with taking care of yourself.
89. The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up to it.  -Clarence Darrow
90. I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -Henry David Thoreau
91. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.  -Mary Pickford
92. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. – Anna Quindlen
93. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self respect.  -Marcus Arelius
94. You are what you do.  Not what you say do you’ll do.  
95. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso
96. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.  -Robert Louis Stevenson
97. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.  -Ronald Reagan
98. The #1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.  
99. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.  -Abraham Lincoln

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