300 Quotes That Inspire and Motivate

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Where there is love, there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love makes the world go round, but it's money that pays the fare.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success isn't owned. It's leased, and rent is due every day.

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for himself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is harmony.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

To be silent is to speak, and to speak is often to say nothing.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Leaders think and act in the present, with an eye to the future.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Friends show their real colors during storms, not in sunny weather.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life should look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.

Courage is grace under pressure.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fears but choosing to act in spite of them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.