50 Remarkably Wise Quotes That Will Inspire You to Success in Life

1. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison

2. "There is more to life than increasing its speed." Mahatma Gandhi

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

4. "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." Dalai Lama

5. "There are three constants in life...change, choice and principles." Stephen Covey

6. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." Eleanor Roosevelt

8. "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." Elbert Hubbard

9. "Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent." Billy Graham

10. "Each person must live their life as a model for others." Rosa Parks

11. "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out." Ronald Reagan

12. "Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce." Vivian Komori

13. "Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto." Dale Carnegie

14. "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." Tony Robbins

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

16. "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. "Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner." Les Brown

18. "Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." Helen Keller

19. "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." Aristotle

20. "Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery -- there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair." Rick Warren

21. "Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." Matt Cameron

22. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." William James

23. "The only disability in life is a bad attitude." Scott Hamilton

24. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia

25. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

26. "Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." Paulo Coelho

27. "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." Thomas Jefferson

28. "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

29. "Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life." Brian Tracy

30. "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Lao Tzu

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

32. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Albert Einstein

33. "When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor." Eleanor Roosevelt

34. "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." Voltaire

35. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

36. "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." Maya Angelou

38. "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." John F. Kennedy

39. "There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela

40. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn

41. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan

42. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." Oprah Winfrey

43. "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." C. S. Lewis

44. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." Henry Ford

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

46. "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." John C. Maxwell

47. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard

48. "What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." Wayne Dyer

49. "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." Lou Holtz

50. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." Amelia Earhart