100+ Best Quotes and Thoughts for Inspiration & Sharing

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“Change is the only constant in life.” – Heraclitus

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Love makes the world go round.” – Madonna

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Love is not about possession. It's about appreciation.” – Osho

“We loved with a love that was strong.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.” – Steve Jobs

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Steven Wright

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.” – Steven Wright

“I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.” – Victor Borge

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright

“I hate housework! You drag the dirt around, clean the same spot twice, and then it’s dirty again.” – Phyllis Diller

“My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.” – Bill Burr

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

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

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about.” – Haruki Murakami

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” – Martha Graham

“A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses.” – Nathaniel Branden

“We do not discover ourselves through comfort, but through challenge.” – Unknown

“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Self-awareness is the first step to self-improvement.” – Stephen Covey

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu

“You grow through what you go through.” – Robert Tew

“The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” – Buddha

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Do every act of your life as if it were the last.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” – Abraham Maslow

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bill Keane

“Focus on the journey, not the destination.” – Tony Robbins

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“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.” – Ronald Reagan

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success.” – Ted Engstrom

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“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.” – Lao Tzu

“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.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany

“Purpose is the reason we strive, not just survive.” – Jay Shetty

“The size of your life is determined by the amount of love, courage, and action you bring to it.” – Cheryl Richardson

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” – William Osler

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” – Roy T. Bennett