100+ Powerful Being 40 Quotes to Inspire & Celebrate Midlife Wisdom

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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

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

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

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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 so does fear — choose wisely.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We loved with a love that was strong than the grave.

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

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

Love is not about possession. It's about appreciation.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: That word is love.

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

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

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

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

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

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.

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

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

Fortune favors the bold.

Courage means doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

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

True leadership lies in guiding others to discover the greatness within themselves.

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

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 art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

You don’t lead by pointing and commanding. You lead by going alongside people.

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

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 depends upon ourselves.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

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

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

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

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Creativity takes courage.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

The creative adult is the child who survived.

Art challenges society, and society inspires the artist.

Creative thinking inspires progress in every field.

Originality is the art of remembering what you steal.

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Resilience is not about bouncing back, it’s about leaping forward.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Each man must look to himself to teach, to inspire, to encourage. I neither know nor seek to know another soul.

Self-discovery is the journey of a lifetime.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with forgiving yourself.

Self-knowledge is a lifetime’s work, but it pays lifelong dividends.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.