Wiseful Quotes to Inspire and Transform Your Life

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.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

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

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 let yesterday take up too much of today.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Where there is love, there is life.

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

Love makes the world go round.

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

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

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

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if I'm forgotten.

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.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

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

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Resilience is not about overcoming, but transforming.

Hard times may hold you down, but they will not last forever.

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

Scars are proof that you survived.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Lost time is never found again.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Your relationship with time is your relationship with your life.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying 'I don't want to.'

One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two after.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once gone, never comes back.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

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 starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fear and doing it anyway.

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

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

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

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

Fortune favors the bold.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

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

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

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

Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Knowledge is power.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

The thirst for knowledge is infinite.

Knowledge is not power until it is applied.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

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

True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.

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

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

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 telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.