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150 Life Quotes: Hope, Inspiration, & Positivity

Life is an intricate mix of experiences and emotions — a journey that constantly evolves and surprises us. 

It’s filled with challenges that test our resilience, moments that take our breath away, and opportunities that push us toward growth. 

Philosophers, writers, and thinkers throughout history have tried to capture the essence of this journey. Their quotes about life shed light on the complexities, joys, and inevitable struggles we all face — providing wisdom that can guide us, comfort us, or simply make us think.

In this article, we’ve curated a selection of life quotes that reflect the human experience. Whether you’re seeking guidance, inspiration, or a moment of reflection — may these quotes remind you of the shared human condition.

The Best Quotes About Life

Famous life quotes.

“Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.” — Audre Lorde

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.” — Nelson Mandela

“Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” — Sydney J. Harris

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh

“Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.” — Frederick Buechner

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson

“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

“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey

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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” — Nicole Kidman

Positive Quotes

“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.” — Rosa Parks

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’” — Audrey Hepburn 

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” — Matt Cameron

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.” — Mavis Staples

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson

“There’s always something we can do. Whatever you did, your life is still meaningful.” — Bryan Stevenson

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” — Ashley Smith

“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

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” — Yoko Ono

Deep Quotes

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle

“Lead from the heart, not the head.” — Diana, Princess of Wales

“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” — Betty White

“You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.” — Bernice King

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” — Lucille Ball

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” — Albert Camus

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” — Michelle Obama

“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

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.” — Eudora Welty

“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.” — Prem Rawat

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” — Richard L. Evans

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese

“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.” — Maya Angelou

On a Happy Life

“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” — Brooke Shields

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” — Carl Jung

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” — Orhan Parnuk

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

Funny Quotes

“You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.” — Jim Carrey

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Bernard Baruch

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

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.” — Terry Pratchett

“If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true, and that’s unacceptable.” — Carrie Fisher

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — A. A. Milne

“If I’d have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I’d be really tired.” — Willie Nelson

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” — Dr. Seuss

“Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.” — Meryl Streep

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

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

“Life is like an onion; you peel off a layer at a time and sometimes you weep.” — Carl Sandburg

“I’d like to live like a poor man — only with lots of money.” — Pablo Picasso

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” — Helen Hayes

“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire

Life is Too Short

“Life is too short to work so hard.” — Vivien Leigh

“Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.” — Ariana Grande

“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.” — Eric Davis

“That’s the funny thing about life. We’re rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.” — Lauren Miller

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” — Phillips Brooks

“Life is too short not to enjoy it.” — Glen Campbell

“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them — life is too short to spend it unhappy.” — Jinkx Monsoon

Love Quotes

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

“Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging — that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong — is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing.” — Laverne Cox

“The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.” — Robert Fulghum

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” — Helen Keller

“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.” — Samuel Butler

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” — Agatha Christie

“To love one another just may be the fight of our lives.” — Amanda Gorman

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby — awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” — Lemony Snicket

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” — Jimi Hendrix

Short Quotes

“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — GZA

“A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” — Naomi Judd

“All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.” — Bernice King

“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” — Horace

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” — John W. Gardner

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” — Jerry Seinfeld

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” — E. E. Cummings

“The world is what it is. But the world is also what you bring to it, and who you share it with.” — John Green

“Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” — Sophia Loren

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” — Bob Marley

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” — Voltaire

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” — Jon Bon Jovi

“To know nothing is the happiest life.” — Desiderius Erasmus

“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” — William Feather

“Life itself is the proper binge.” — Julia Child

“No one changes the world alone and no one doesn’t change it at all. We are all exceptional, and none of us are.” — Hank Green

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison

“There is no way to be perfect and no fun in being perfect.” — Alicia Keys

“Life is a work in progress.” — Jeff Rich

“You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.” — Shakira

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.” — Elizabeth Gaskell

“People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise.” — Bill Murray

“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” — Emile Zola

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” — Frank Zappa

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” — Jack London

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” — Lauryn Hill

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“The whole point is to live life and be — to use all the colors in the crayon box.” — RuPaul

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Advice on Life

“Here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” — John Green

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Groucho Marx

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.” — Judy Blume

“Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.” — Maude Adams

“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” — Eminem

“Figure out who are you separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else.” — Angelina Jolie

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” — Cary Grant

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” — Robin Williams

More Life Quotes & Captions

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Ah, how mysteriously the everyday things of life brush by us! On the surface, touched by light, of this complex human life, Time, a hesitant smile, blooms on the lips of the Mystery! How modern all this sounds, yet deep down it is so ancient, so hidden, so different from the meaning that shines out from all of this.” — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Children — and adults — who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world.” — Jane Goodall , The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. ” — Bill Clinton

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.” — Maya Angelou

“When life hands you a difficult situation where you feel undervalued and disrespected, be bold and brave enough to know your worth.” — Yai Vargas

“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” — Rebecca West

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” — Edgar Allan Poe

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.” — Sterling K. Brown

“When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.” — Cara Delevingne

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” — George Eliot

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — E. M. Forster

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100 Famous Quotes That’ll Change Your Life for the Better

Open your eyes to some of the most famous quotes of all time that will change how you approach the world’s challenges!

Life can sometimes be so full of obstacles that we feel lost and unmotivated. When this happens, we look to others who have experienced the same thing for advice.

Sadly, not everyone who’s physically around us can offer us help. If this is something that’s happening to you, you don’t have to worry!

We’ve created a collection of famous quotes from the world’s greatest thinkers and leaders. They’ve all encountered some sort of difficulty in their lives, and they overcame it through sheer hard work, determination, and persistence.

Reading the most famous quotes of all time will undoubtedly be worth every second of your time. So, find the pieces of advice you need to navigate life through the collection below.

Don’t ever forget that you’re not alone! Read on, and learn from great minds like Oscar Wilde , Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, and more!

And don’t forget to check out these encouraging quotes and positive quotes .

Most Famous Quotes

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

2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

3. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

4. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

5. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

6. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

7. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

9. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

10. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

11. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard

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

Famous Inspirational Quotes

13. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

14. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Less Brown

15. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

17. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

18. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

20. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden

21. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

22. “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” – Amanda Gorman

23. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

24. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn

Quotes by Famous People

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

26. Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

27. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

28. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

29. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

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

32. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

33. “I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times, hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe

Famous Quotes About Life

34. “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

35. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll

36. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley

37. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

38. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

39. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

40. “Life is what we make it and how we make it—whether we realize it or not.” – Napoleon Hill

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

42. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

Famous Quotes That Zoom in on Change

43. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

44. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

45. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” – Queen Elizabeth II

46. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

Famous Quotes About Success and Failure

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

48. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

49. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

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

51. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

52. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

53. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

54. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

55. “Only those who play to win. Only those who risk to win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.” – Iveta Cherneva

Famous Quotes About Love to Keep In Your Heart

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

57. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alfred Tennyson

58. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

59. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

60. “In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

61. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King , Jr.

Famous Motivational Quotes

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

63. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

64. “Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do. Follow your dreams and persist.” – Barack Obama

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

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

67. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

68. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

69. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

70. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

72. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s Heaven on Earth.” – Mark Twain

Famous Quotes on Friendship

73. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend.” – Albert Camus

74. “Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis

75. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard

Short Famous Quotes for Awesome Captions

76. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank

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

78. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

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

80. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

81. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley

82. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

83. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

84. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

Famous Sayings

86. . “All’s well that ends well.” – William Shakespeare

87. “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides

88. “The end doesn’t justify the means.” – Sergey Nechayev

89. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” – Abraham Lincoln

90. “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” – Benjamin Rush

91. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Famous Quotes From Movies

92. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” – The Help

93. “My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump

94. “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” – Dead Poets Society

95. “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – The Godfather

96. “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” – Back to the Future

Funny Famous Quotes to Make You Laugh

97. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein

98. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

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

100. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

Which Famous Quotes Gave You the Best Pieces of Advice?

Life is a beautiful mystery we’ll never get to unravel fully. Even today, thousands of years since our first civilization was discovered, we still don’t 100% understand how the world works.

However, this unsolved mystery of life is what makes living worthwhile. Each day we live, we discover something more about ourselves and the world.

Even so, at times, because of our lack of knowledge, we feel we’re unequipped to handle its challenges. This is where the most famous quotes from popular personalities come in.

What each person goes through is unique, but there are still some similarities that allow us to relate with the people we’re looking up to. Thus, their famous quotes help us gain a clearer head capable of facing life’s challenges head-on.

Through their inspiring and motivational words, we gain the courage to stand up to our fears, follow our dreams, and live a happy life. We may not have met these great thinkers and leaders personally, but they still voice out the emotions we’re feeling inside.

With that, we hope this collection of the most famous quotes of all time was able to help you change your perspective on the world. Remember, you’re not alone in your struggles; just reflect on this list and find more inspiration anytime you need to!

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Hi, I’m Karen , a content curator and writer for Quote Ambition; I’m also a marketing and advertising professional. Beyond the keyboard and the screen, I’m someone who’s out to enjoy every bit that life has to offer!

Poetry, philosophy, history, and movies are all topics I love writing about! However, my true passion is in traveling, photography, and finding common ground to which everyone from different cultures can relate.

With the many places I’ve been to, I found that love, inspiration, and happiness are some things that bring people together. No matter how different we are on the outside, I’m a true believer that our emotions don’t lie; if you dig deep into our psyche, we’re all the same inside.

This belief was further amplified when I joined Quote Ambition. Through the quotes I’ve read, collected, organized, and written about, I found that humans are resilient, creative, and compassionate.

We take from each others’ hearts and courage, and it’s through our individual experiences that we learn how to rise above our challenges and pain. In so many ways, Quote Ambition is a platform that allows people from all over the world to gain the inspiration they need anytime, anywhere!

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100 Life Quotes To Transform Your Life Today

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Since 2004.

But only a few were truly amazing .

The result?

100 life quotes that will transform your life (updated for 2024).

If you want to find inspiration , meaning, and a sense of purpose, this page is for you.

Indeed, life is like a garden.

The more love you give, the more beautiful it becomes.

You’ll discover quotes by Buddha, Bruce Lee, Thoreau , Picasso, Einstein, Seneca , etc.

I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I do!

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski

Meaning: Be a little adventurous. Take little risks. Try something new. Spice up your life.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump

The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle. Tony Robbins

A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence. Marcus Aurelius

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Albert Camus

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca

Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. Naval Ravikant

Meaning: Society tells you most things are important in your life, but they are not. And only a handful are vital to the “good life.” Focus on them.

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

Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

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

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life, to wait until you’re ready. Hugh Laurie

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

Man is made by his belief. As he believes so he is. Bhagavad Gita

Life is a book you write, not a movie you watch. Maxime Lagacé

My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top. Maxime Lagacé

Meaning: You will find meaning in life by doing what YOU think is important, not what others say.

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

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

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. Naval Ravikant

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. Naval Ravikant

Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love. Maxime Lagacé

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey

You cannot be afraid to disappoint people. You have to live the life you want to live. David Goggins

Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts . Tony Robbins

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius

Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. Seungsahn

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

Meaning: At the end of your life, you’ll remember one thing: the moments you’ve spent with the people you love. So cherish those. Create more moments.

Life gets better when you stop caring about everything. Maxime Lagacé

The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren

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

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

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Augustine of Hippo

If you want to live a happy life , tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein

The cost for the good life is giving up comfort. Maxime Lagacé

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal. Aristotle

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau

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

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Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside. Kamal Ravikant

Meaning: Everything you want in life: happiness, success, and connection, starts with self-understanding.

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Snoopy

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

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

The first step to life is to try. The second is to learn. The third is to share. Maxime Lagacé

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

Life is about moments; don’t wait for them, create them. Tony Robbins

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

The wise simplify. Only the insecure complicate needlessly. Greg McKeown

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backward. Yvon Chouinard

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

Meaning: This life is precious , mysterious, and the only one you have. Accept it as it is. Say “yes” to life. Be happy now.

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

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Martin Luther King Jr

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

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. Michelle Obama

Nothing great in life comes with complete assurance of success. Michael Easter

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing and the tutorial is way too long. Elon Musk

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets. Gary Keller

No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. Naval Ravikant

Your clarity determines how successfully you walk this life. Sadhguru

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. Indira Gandhi

You are not what you want to be. You are what you do daily. Maxime Lagacé

Meaning: Having goals and dreams is fine. But you need consistent action each day to have an impact and make a change in your life.

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Jordan Peterson

Cut yourself off from the past and the future and live in the present, and your life becomes a song and a dance. Osho

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Alan Watts

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler

Life is sweeter when you have an attitude of gratitude. Dolly Parton ( Source )

Practice gratitude and count your blessings. There is always something to be thankful for. Sai Baba

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa

Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. Maxime Lagacé

Think new thoughts and you will change your mind. Change your mind and you will change your life. Maxime Lagacé

Meaning: A confused mind leads to a confused life. A happy mind leads to a happy life. So choose your thoughts wisely. And watch your life change.

In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. Naval Ravikant

Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want tomorrow. Neil Strauss

The more silence you have in your life, the louder your work can be. Maxime Lagacé

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman

Your best life will not be found in comfort. It will be found in fighting for what you believe in. Maxime Lagacé

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude. Zig Ziglar

Life is not a competition. It’s not about winning or losing. Life is about all the fun we have before it ends. Simon Sinek ( Source )

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller

Meaning: Ultimately, your life comes down to the choices you make. If you want a better life, make better choices .

Life is not accumulation, it’s about contribution. Stephen R. Covey

Life is a tree. Your mind is the roots and who you become is the fruits. Maxime Lagacé

We should be satisfied with the small things in life. The less we need, the less trouble we can have. Leo Tolstoy

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. Maya Angelou

The ego wants comfort and certainty. The soul wants to live fully. Maxime Lagacé

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you. Robert Greene

Be pleasantly surprised by everything that happens. Life is more fun that way. Lex Fridman

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. Jim Carrey

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A secret to life: Know that none of this matters, and yet… live as if every single moment does. Kamal Ravikant

Meaning: We must keep one simple thing in mind: we will not live forever. So give everything you have while you can. Life is short .

Key Takeaways

• Life is short, precious, and beautiful. Don’t waste it on petty things.
• Life is also hard, unfair, and sometimes incomprehensible. Don’t overthink it. Move forward.
• You don’t control most things that happen in your life. Focus on your attitude and your effort.
• Most things will seem urgent and important. Remember: most are not. Relax.
• Life gets better when you surround yourself with positive people.

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152 Life Quotes to Bring Inspiration and Positivity to Your Day

Refocus and recharge with these short, deep and powerful sayings.

With all of its ups and downs, the journey of life is one that is not easily summed up in words. But luckily for you, our list of inspirational life quotes is filled with powerful sayings and musings from famous people from all walks of life who have found a way to whittle down the unique lived experiences that make us who we are into a few sentences and phrases.

So, go ahead and dive right into these notable quotes about life. You may even uncover your next Monday motivation or self-care mantra .

"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."

William Osler

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

William Hazlitt

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Vincent Van Gogh

"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

Vince Lombardi

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

Vernon Howard

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."

Sydney J. Harris

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"

Stephen Jay Gould

"We pass through this world but once."

Stephen Covey

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy."

Roy T. Bennett

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

Roy. T. Bennett

"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

Rose Kennedy

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Frost

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

Rick Riordan

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

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The 30 best biographies of all time.

Biographer Richard Holmes once wrote that his work was “a kind of pursuit… writing about the pursuit of that fleeting figure, in such a way as to bring them alive in the present.”

At the risk of sounding cliché, the best biographies do exactly this: bring their subjects to life. A great biography isn’t just a laundry list of events that happened to someone. Rather, it should weave a narrative and tell a story in almost the same way a novel does. In this way, biography differs from the rest of nonfiction .

All the biographies on this list are just as captivating as excellent novels , if not more so. With that, please enjoy the 30 best biographies of all time — some historical, some recent, but all remarkable, life-giving tributes to their subjects.

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1. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

This biography of esteemed mathematician John Nash was both a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and the basis for the award-winning film of the same name. Nasar thoroughly explores Nash’s prestigious career, from his beginnings at MIT to his work at the RAND Corporation — as well the internal battle he waged against schizophrenia, a disorder that nearly derailed his life.

2. Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition by Andrew Hodges

Hodges’ 1983 biography of Alan Turing sheds light on the inner workings of this brilliant mathematician, cryptologist, and computer pioneer. Indeed, despite the title ( a nod to his work during WWII ), a great deal of the “enigmatic” Turing is laid out in this book. It covers his heroic code-breaking efforts during the war, his computer designs and contributions to mathematical biology in the years following, and of course, the vicious persecution that befell him in the 1950s — when homosexual acts were still a crime punishable by English law.

3. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is not only the inspiration for a hit Broadway musical, but also a work of creative genius itself. This massive undertaking of over 800 pages details every knowable moment of the youngest Founding Father’s life: from his role in the Revolutionary War and early American government to his sordid (and ultimately career-destroying) affair with Maria Reynolds. He may never have been president, but he was a fascinating and unique figure in American history — plus it’s fun to get the truth behind the songs.

Prefer to read about fascinating First Ladies rather than almost-presidents? Check out this awesome list of books about First Ladies over on The Archive.

4. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

A prolific essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Hurston turned her hand to biographical writing in 1927 with this incredible work, kept under lock and key until it was published 2018. It’s based on Hurston’s interviews with the last remaining survivor of the Middle Passage slave trade, a man named Cudjo Lewis. Rendered in searing detail and Lewis’ highly affecting African-American vernacular, this biography of the “last black cargo” will transport you back in time to an era that, chillingly, is not nearly as far away from us as it feels.

5. Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert

Though many a biography of him has been attempted, Gilbert’s is the final authority on Winston Churchill — considered by many to be Britain’s greatest prime minister ever. A dexterous balance of in-depth research and intimately drawn details makes this biography a perfect tribute to the mercurial man who led Britain through World War II.

Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the \'dominion of matter\' with \'a great stillness\'--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.

Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well; namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--a view that would change the world. --Gregory McNamee

6. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis

This “biography of the world’s most famous equation” is a one-of-a-kind take on the genre: rather than being the story of Einstein, it really does follow the history of the equation itself. From the origins and development of its individual elements (energy, mass, and light) to their ramifications in the twentieth century, Bodanis turns what could be an extremely dry subject into engaging fare for readers of all stripes.

7. Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

When Enrique was only five years old, his mother left Honduras for the United States, promising a quick return. Eleven years later, Enrique finally decided to take matters into his own hands in order to see her again: he would traverse Central and South America via railway, risking his life atop the “train of death” and at the hands of the immigration authorities, to reunite with his mother. This tale of Enrique’s perilous journey is not for the faint of heart, but it is an account of incredible devotion and sharp commentary on the pain of separation among immigrant families.

8. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

Herrera’s 1983 biography of renowned painter Frida Kahlo, one of the most recognizable names in modern art, has since become the definitive account on her life. And while Kahlo no doubt endured a great deal of suffering (a horrific accident when she was eighteen, a husband who had constant affairs), the focal point of the book is not her pain. Instead, it’s her artistic brilliance and immense resolve to leave her mark on the world — a mark that will not soon be forgotten, in part thanks to Herrera’s dedicated work.

9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Perhaps the most impressive biographical feat of the twenty-first century, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is about a woman whose cells completely changed the trajectory of modern medicine. Rebecca Skloot skillfully commemorates the previously unknown life of a poor black woman whose cancer cells were taken, without her knowledge, for medical testing — and without whom we wouldn’t have many of the critical cures we depend upon today.

10. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, hitchhiked to Alaska and disappeared into the Denali wilderness in April 1992. Five months later, McCandless was found emaciated and deceased in his shelter — but of what cause? Krakauer’s biography of McCandless retraces his steps back to the beginning of the trek, attempting to suss out what the young man was looking for on his journey, and whether he fully understood what dangers lay before him.

11. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee

"Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” From this line derives the central issue of Agee and Evans’ work: who truly deserves our praise and recognition? According to this 1941 biography, it’s the barely-surviving sharecropper families who were severely impacted by the American “Dust Bowl” — hundreds of people entrenched in poverty, whose humanity Evans and Agee desperately implore their audience to see in their book.

12. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Another mysterious explorer takes center stage in this gripping 2009 biography. Grann tells the story of Percy Fawcett, the archaeologist who vanished in the Amazon along with his son in 1925, supposedly in search of an ancient lost city. Parallel to this narrative, Grann describes his own travels in the Amazon 80 years later: discovering firsthand what threats Fawcett may have encountered, and coming to realize what the “Lost City of Z” really was.

13. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang

Though many of us will be familiar with the name Mao Zedong, this prodigious biography sheds unprecedented light upon the power-hungry “Red Emperor.” Chang and Halliday begin with the shocking statistic that Mao was responsible for 70 million deaths during peacetime — more than any other twentieth-century world leader. From there, they unravel Mao’s complex ideologies, motivations, and missions, breaking down his long-propagated “hero” persona and thrusting forth a new, grislier image of one of China’s biggest revolutionaries.

14. Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson by Andrew Wilson

Titled after one of her most evocative poems, this shimmering bio of Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach. Instead of focusing on her years of depression and tempestuous marriage to poet Ted Hughes, it chronicles her life before she ever came to Cambridge. Wilson closely examines her early family and relationships, feelings and experiences, with information taken from her meticulous diaries — setting a strong precedent for other Plath biographers to follow.

15. The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes

What if you had twenty-four different people living inside you, and you never knew which one was going to come out? Such was the life of Billy Milligan, the subject of this haunting biography by the author of Flowers for Algernon . Keyes recounts, in a refreshingly straightforward style, the events of Billy’s life and how his psyche came to be “split”... as well as how, with Keyes’ help, he attempted to put the fragments of himself back together.

16. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

This gorgeously constructed biography follows Paul Farmer, a doctor who’s worked for decades to eradicate infectious diseases around the globe, particularly in underprivileged areas. Though Farmer’s humanitarian accomplishments are extraordinary in and of themselves, the true charm of this book comes from Kidder’s personal relationship with him — and the sense of fulfillment the reader sustains from reading about someone genuinely heroic, written by someone else who truly understands and admires what they do.

17. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Here’s another bio that will reshape your views of a famed historical tyrant, though this time in a surprisingly favorable light. Decorated scholar Andrew Roberts delves into the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his near-flawless military instincts to his complex and confusing relationship with his wife. But Roberts’ attitude toward his subject is what really makes this work shine: rather than ridiculing him ( as it would undoubtedly be easy to do ), he approaches the “petty tyrant” with a healthy amount of deference.

18. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon Johnson might not seem as intriguing or scandalous as figures like Kennedy, Nixon, or W. Bush. But in this expertly woven biography, Robert Caro lays out the long, winding road of his political career, and it’s full of twists you wouldn’t expect. Johnson himself was a surprisingly cunning figure, gradually maneuvering his way closer and closer to power. Finally, in 1963, he got his greatest wish — but at what cost? Fans of Adam McKay’s Vice , this is the book for you.

19. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Anyone who grew up reading Little House on the Prairie will surely be fascinated by this tell-all biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Caroline Fraser draws upon never-before-published historical resources to create a lush study of the author’s life — not in the gently narrated manner of the Little House series, but in raw and startling truths about her upbringing, marriage, and volatile relationship with her daughter (and alleged ghostwriter) Rose Wilder Lane.

20. Prince: A Private View by Afshin Shahidi

Compiled just after the superstar’s untimely death in 2016, this intimate snapshot of Prince’s life is actually a largely visual work — Shahidi served as his private photographer from the early 2000s until his passing. And whatever they say about pictures being worth a thousand words, Shahidi’s are worth more still: Prince’s incredible vibrance, contagious excitement, and altogether singular personality come through in every shot.

21. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

Could there be a more fitting title for a book about the husband-wife team who discovered radioactivity? What you may not know is that these nuclear pioneers also had a fascinating personal history. Marie Sklodowska met Pierre Curie when she came to work in his lab in 1891, and just a few years later they were married. Their passion for each other bled into their passion for their work, and vice-versa — and in almost no time at all, they were on their way to their first of their Nobel Prizes.

22. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

She may not have been assassinated or killed in a mysterious plane crash, but Rosemary Kennedy’s fate is in many ways the worst of “the Kennedy Curse.” As if a botched lobotomy that left her almost completely incapacitated weren’t enough, her parents then hid her away from society, almost never to be seen again. Yet in this new biography, penned by devoted Kennedy scholar Kate Larson, the full truth of Rosemary’s post-lobotomy life is at last revealed.

23. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

This appropriately lyrical biography of brilliant Jazz Age poet and renowned feminist, Edna St. Vincent Millay, is indeed a perfect balance of savage and beautiful. While Millay’s poetic work was delicate and subtle, the woman herself was feisty and unpredictable, harboring unusual and occasionally destructive habits that Milford fervently explores.

24. Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes

Holmes’ famous philosophy of “biography as pursuit” is thoroughly proven here in his first full-length biographical work. Shelley: The Pursuit details an almost feverish tracking of Percy Shelley as a dark and cutting figure in the Romantic period — reforming many previous historical conceptions about him through Holmes’ compelling and resolute writing.

25. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Another Gothic figure has been made newly known through this work, detailing the life of prolific horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson. Author Ruth Franklin digs deep into the existence of the reclusive and mysterious Jackson, drawing penetrating comparisons between the true events of her life and the dark nature of her fiction.

26. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

Fans of Into the Wild and The Lost City of Z will find their next adventure fix in this 2017 book about Christopher Knight, a man who lived by himself in the Maine woods for almost thirty years. The tale of this so-called “last true hermit” will captivate readers who have always fantasized about escaping society, with vivid descriptions of Knight’s rural setup, his carefully calculated moves and how he managed to survive the deadly cold of the Maine winters.

27. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The man, the myth, the legend: Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, is properly immortalized in Isaacson’s masterful biography. It divulges the details of Jobs’ little-known childhood and tracks his fateful path from garage engineer to leader of one of the largest tech companies in the world — not to mention his formative role in other legendary companies like Pixar, and indeed within the Silicon Valley ecosystem as a whole.

28. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Olympic runner Louis Zamperini was just twenty-six when his US Army bomber crashed and burned in the Pacific, leaving him and two other men afloat on a raft for forty-seven days — only to be captured by the Japanese Navy and tortured as a POW for the next two and a half years. In this gripping biography, Laura Hillenbrand tracks Zamperini’s story from beginning to end… including how he embraced Christian evangelism as a means of recovery, and even came to forgive his tormentors in his later years.

29. Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff

Everyone knows of Vladimir Nabokov — but what about his wife, Vera, whom he called “the best-humored woman I have ever known”? According to Schiff, she was a genius in her own right, supporting Vladimir not only as his partner, but also as his all-around editor and translator. And she kept up that trademark humor throughout it all, inspiring her husband’s work and injecting some of her own creative flair into it along the way.

30. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

William Shakespeare is a notoriously slippery historical figure — no one really knows when he was born, what he looked like, or how many plays he wrote. But that didn’t stop Stephen Greenblatt, who in 2004 turned out this magnificently detailed biography of the Bard: a series of imaginative reenactments of his writing process, and insights on how the social and political ideals of the time would have influenced him. Indeed, no one exists in a vacuum, not even Shakespeare — hence the conscious depiction of him in this book as a “will in the world,” rather than an isolated writer shut up in his own musty study.

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28 Powerful Quotes to Inspire Greatness

Greatness comes from the desire to do extraordinary things—to reach beyond the status quo and relentlessly chase your dreams. It all starts with setting and achieving goals , but when you aim higher than where you set your mark, you force yourself to get better, one victory at a time.

There is greatness inside all of us, but first, we must choose to be great. With a finite amount of time to live your ideal life, the time to embrace your inner excellence is always now.

Get started today with these 28 powerful quotes—as a dose of inspiration to spark your journey.

Use the greatness within

• “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”—Wilma Rudolph

Live life to the fullest

• “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi 

Make the decision

• “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”—Edmund Hillary
• “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”— Jim Collins

Find your passion

• “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.”—Joseph B. Wirthlin
• “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”—Oprah Winfrey

Use your full capabilities

• “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better .”—Gordon B. Hinckley
• “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”—Steve Jobs

Aim for the stars

• “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”—William Faulkner

Do your best

• “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”—Og Mandino
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”—Winston Churchill

Don’t fear greatness

• “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”—William Shakespeare

Have high expectations

• “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”—Michael Jordan
• “High expectations are the key to everything.”—Sam Walton

Do without limits

• “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”—Mary Kay Ash

• “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”—Christian D. Larson

Take action

• “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”—Theodore Roosevelt
• “”Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”—Vincent van Gogh

Look at what you’ve overcome

• “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals .”—Dorothy Height

• “ Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.”—Bill McCartney
• “If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?”—Lee Strasberg

Know your worth

• “You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”—Zig Ziglar

Set your mind to it 

• “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”—Napoleon Hill

Go a step further 

• “When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.”—Maximillian Degenerez
• “Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Choose excellence

• “The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.”—Charles R. Swindoll

Make a lasting impact

• “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”—William Hazlitt

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157 Short Quotes & Sayings to Inspire Your Life

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“And still, I rise.”

Short, yet very powerful, this quote is from Maya Angelou, one of the most iconic authors and activists of all time. In fact, many of the influential quotes you will find online (and even offline) are from Angelou.

Quotes aren’t just a bunch of words combined together to impress. They come from people who have succeeded in life, or worked their way through remarkable experiences.

Short quotes are no different from the lengthy ones. They possess the same level of profundity and enlightenment, and in some ways their brevity makes them even more powerful, as they are easier to remember.

In this article, we share with you 157 of the best short quotes of all time . We have quotes about happiness and love, sayings about life and struggles, messages about relationships, and a lot more. These quotes can literally change the way you look at life.

Let’s start with some inspirational, short quotes about life.

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Short Inspirational Quotes About Life

• “Only a life lived for others is a life lived worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
• “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” – Amelia Burr
• “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
• “Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
• “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
• “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
• “Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Johnny Depp

• “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
• “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
• “I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne
• “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault
• “Broken crayons still color.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
• “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” – Seneca
• “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
• “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
• “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” – Cary Grant

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” – Cary Grant

• “Maybe that's what life is, a wink of the eye and winking stars.” – Jack Kerouac
• “Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect.” – Eleanor C. Wood
• “Growth is the only evidence of life.” – John Henry Newman
• “The middle is messy, but it is also where the magic happens.” – Brené Brown
• “We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” – Lauryn Hill
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Life is a lot like jazz … it's best when you improvise.” – George Gershwin
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
• “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt-Longworth

Life can be tough, but it is not impossible. It may cause you stress and worries , yet at the same time it will always be a wonderful experience.

We hope that these quotes will help you stay motivated to be strong and keep getting stronger. You are destined for a meaningful life.

Next, we have a set of short quotes about love.

Short Quotes About Love

• “If you judge people you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
• “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
• “Love is great when you find someone to give it to.” – Unknown
• “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
• “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
• “Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” – Tyga
• “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron

• “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
• “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” – Barbara de Angelis
• “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
• “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” — Honore de Balzac
• “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates

• “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
• “You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
• “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ― Shannon Alder
• “Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it.” — Toni Morrison
• “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
• “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” — Torquato Tasso
• “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” — Lao Tzu

The Beatles didn’t sing “All You Need is Love” for nothing. They wanted to teach people that love can make the world go round, and that everything is possible if we just learn how to love ourselves and others.

Our third set of quotes is for those whose motto in life is to “never say never.” Strive and work hard, and you’ll be surprised at how victory can come to you easily.

Short Success Quotes

• “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
• “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” – Steve Jobs
• “Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.” – Zig Ziglar
• “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
• “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
• “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
• “Die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown
• “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
• “Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

• “Whatever you do, do it well.” – Walt Disney
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
• “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
• “Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
• “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
• “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
• “Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

• “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
• “Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats
• “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
• “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra
• “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
• “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
• “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
• “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

Success is so much sweeter when you’ve worked hard to arrive at it. With the proper combination of grit , resilience , and introspection , there is no reason for failure.

Use these motivational quotes about success to reach your highest potential . Keep pushing—otherwise, you will never know what waits for you at the finish.

Next, we have a list of simple, short happiness quotes that can change the way you perceive life and all it has to offer.

Short Quotes About Happiness

• “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katherine Hepburn
• “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha
• “There is only one happiness in life—to love and to be loved.” – George Sand
• “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
• “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
• “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Colette
• “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley
• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Ludwig Jacobowski
• “A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.” – Atticus
• “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel García Márquez

• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
• “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
• “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.” – John Barrymore
• “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Erying Kimball
• “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
• “Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” – Chinese Proverb
• “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
• “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

• “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
• “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
• “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois
• “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
• “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
• “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – Stephen Chbosky

Happiness is a feeling of satisfaction and contentment . It does not come from getting the things you want; rather, it comes from being focused on the journey and content with what you have.

It may be a challenge to find happiness at times, but the best things always take work. Focus on the good, let things flow and fall into their places, and you’ll eventually discover where happiness lies.

Moving on to our fifth set, we have quotes about finding meaning in life. What is your purpose? How do you determine what you are destined to do?

Quotes About Finding the Meaning of Life

• “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
• “Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.” – Janosch
• “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
• “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
• “Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.” – Mandy Hale
• “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
• “The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.” – W. Somerset Maugham
• “You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.” – Stephen King
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
• “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” – Buddha
• “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston S. Churchill
• “He who has a why to live for can bear almost anyhow.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
• “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• “Finding meaning in your life is not a difficult thing, but it is harder than living a numb, fast-paced superficial life.” – Juanita Gomez
• “You are not one type, nor belong to one category. You are a unique blend of personality needs. Live your needs for total fulfillment.” – Diana Detinger
• “Life is without meaning. You bring meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” – Joseph Campbell
• “Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.” – Philip Appleman
• “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown

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

• “Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.” – Leo O’Donovan
• “The meaning of life is not only to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
• “If you don’t follow your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.” – Brigitte Nicole
• “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Anonymous
•  “Keep your eyes in the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Many people are taken aback when they are asked about their purpose in life. If you are one of these people and you do not know what to do with your life , it’s time to take action.

There are a lot of things to be passionate about , and there are so many ways to discover your real purpose.

No, it won’t be easy. In fact, you may need to exert a great deal of effort to find that purpose. But once you do find it, happiness and life satisfaction shall follow.

Last but definitely not least, we share with you relationship quotes that can help you keep your relationships with other people brimming with love and sincerity.

Relationship Quotes

• “Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” – Anthony J. D'Angelo
• “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
• “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” – Leo Buscaglia
• “The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey
• “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph F. Newton Men
• “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
• “I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.” – Elon Musk
• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

• “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
• “What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” – Leo Buscaglia
• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson Gentry
• “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
• “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” – Henry Winkler
• “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.” – Doménico Cieri Estrada
• “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” – Miles Franklin
• “Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” – Wayne Dyer
• “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” – Joyce Meyer

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” – Joyce Meyer

• “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney
• “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Robert Holden
• “The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem
• “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” – Robert Brault
• “We’re often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection.” – Gabby Bernstein
• “Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” – Lauryn Hill
• “It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” – Anthony Storr

Final Thoughts on Short Quotes

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Alexander the Great

Who Was Alexander the Great?

Conqueror and king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great was born on July 20, 356 B.C., in Pella, in the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia. During his leadership, from 336 to 323 B.C., he united the Greek city-states and led the Corinthian League. He also became the king of Persia, Babylon and Asia, and created Macedonian colonies in the region. While considering the conquests of Carthage and Rome, Alexander died of malaria in Babylon (now Iraq), on June 13, 323 B.C.

Alexander the Great was born in the Pella region of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia on July 20, 356 B.C., to parents King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympia, daughter of King Neoptolemus. The young prince and his sister were raised in Pella's royal court. Growing up, the dark-eyed and curly-headed Alexander hardly ever saw his father, who spent most of his time engaged in military campaigns and extra-marital affairs. Although Olympia served as a powerful role model for the boy, Alexander grew to resent his father's absence and philandering.

Alexander received his earliest education under the tutelage of his relative, the stern Leonidas of Epirus. Leonidas, who had been hired by King Phillip to teach Alexander math, horsemanship and archery, struggled to control his rebellious student. Alexander's next tutor was Lysimachus, who used role-playing to capture the restless boy's attention. Alexander particularly delighted in impersonating the warrior Achilles.

In 343 B.C., King Philip II hired the philosopher Aristotle to tutor Alexander at the Temple of the Nymphs at Meiza. Over the course of three years, Aristotle taught Alexander and a handful of his friends philosophy, poetry, drama, science and politics. Seeing that Homer's Iliad inspired Alexander to dream of becoming a heroic warrior, Aristotle created an abridged version of the tome for Alexander to carry with him on military campaigns.

Alexander completed his education at Meiza in 340 B.C. A year later, while still just a teen, he became a soldier and embarked on his first military expedition, against the Thracian tribes. In 338, Alexander took charge of the Companion Cavalry and aided his father in defeating the Athenian and Theban armies at Chaeronea. Once Philip II had succeeded in his campaign to unite all the Greek states (minus Sparta) into the Corinthian League, the alliance between father and son soon disintegrated. Philip married Cleopatra Eurydice, niece of General Attalus, and ousted Alexander's mother, Olympia. Alexander and Olympia were forced to flee Macedonia and stay with Olympia's family in Epirus until Alexander and King Philip II were able to reconcile their differences.

King of Macedonia

In 336, Alexander's sister wed the Molossian king, an uncle who was also called Alexander. During the festival that followed, King Philip II was murdered at the hands of Pausanias, a Macedonian noble.

In the wake of his father's death, Alexander, then 19, was determined to seize the throne by any means necessary. He quickly garnered the support of the Macedonian army, including the general and troops he had had fought with at Chaeronea. The army proclaimed Alexander the feudal king and proceeded to help him murder other potential heirs to the throne. Ever a loyal mother, Olympia further ensured her son's claim to the throne by slaughtering the daughter of King Philip II and Cleopatra and driving Cleopatra herself to suicide.

Even though Alexander was the feudal king of Macedonia, he didn't obtain automatic control of the Corinthian League. In fact, the southern states of Greece were celebrating Philip II's death and expressed divided interests. Athens had its own agenda: Under the leadership of democratic Demosthenes, the state hoped to take charge of the league. As they launched independence movements, Alexander sent his army south and coerced the region of Thessaly into acknowledging him as the leader of the Corinthian League. Then during a meeting of league members at Thermopylae, Alexander elicited their acceptance of his leadership. By the fall of 336, he reissued treaties with the Greek city-states that belonged to the Corinthian League — with Athens still refusing membership — and was granted full military power in the campaign against the Persian Empire. But, before preparing for war with Persia, Alexander first conquered the Thracian Triballians in 335, securing Macedonia's northern borders.

Campaigns and Conquests

As Alexander was nearing the end of his northern campaign, he was delivered the news that Thebes, a Greek city-state, had forced out the Macedonian troops that were garrisoned there. Fearing a revolt among the other city-states, Alexander leapt into action, marching his massive army—consisting of 3,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry—southward all the way to the tip of the Greek peninsula. Meanwhile, Alexander's general, Parmenion, had already made his way to Asia Minor.

Alexander and his forces arrived in Thebes so quickly that the city-state didn't have a chance to pull together allies for its defense. Three days after his arrival, Alexander led the massacre of Thebes. It was Alexander's hope that the destruction of Thebes would serve as a warning to city-states contemplating revolt. His intimidation tactic proved effective; the other Greek city-states, including Athens, chose to pledge their alliance to the Macedonian Empire or opted to remain neutral.

In 334, Alexander embarked on his Asiatic expedition, arriving in Troy that spring. Alexander then faced Persian King Darius III's army near the Grancius River; Darius' forces were swiftly defeated. By fall, Alexander and his army had made it across the southern coast of Asia Minor to Gordium, where they took the winter to rest. In the summer of 333, the troops of Alexander and Darius once again went head to head in battle at Issus. Although Alexander's army was outnumbered, he used his flair for military strategy to create formations that defeated the Persians again and caused Darius to flee. In November of 333, Alexander declared himself the king of Persia after capturing Darius and making him a fugitive.

Next up on Alexander's agenda was his campaign to conquer Egypt. After besieging Gaza on his way to Egypt, Alexander easily achieved his conquest; Egypt fell without resistance. In 331, he created the city of Alexandria, designed as a hub for Greek culture and commerce. Later that year, Alexander defeated the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela. With the collapse of the Persian army, Alexander became "King of Babylon, King of Asia, King of the Four Quarters of the World."

Alexander's next conquest was eastern Iran, where he created Macedonian colonies and in 327 seized the fortress in Ariamazes. After capturing Prince Oxyartes, Alexander married the prince's daughter, Rhoxana.

In 328, Alexander defeated King Porus' armies in northern India. Finding himself impressed by Porus, Alexander reinstated him as king and won his loyalty and forgiveness. Alexander forged eastward to the Ganges but headed back when his armies refused to advance any farther. On their way back along the Indus, Alexander was wounded by Malli warriors.

In 325, after Alexander had recovered, he and his army headed north along the rugged Persian Gulf, where many fell prey to illness, injury and death. In February 324, Alexander at last reached the city of Susa. Desperate to retain his leadership and recruit more soldiers, he tried to connect Persian nobles to Macedonians in order to create a ruling class. To this end, at Susa he commanded that a large number of Macedonians marry Persian princesses. After Alexander managed to recruit tens of thousands of Persian soldiers into his army, he dismissed many of his existing Macedonian soldiers. This enraged the soldiers, who spoke critically of Alexander's new troops and condemned him for adopting Persian customs and manners. Alexander appeased the Macedonian soldiers by killing 13 Persian military leaders. The Thanksgiving Feast at Susa, which had been geared towards solidifying the bond between Persians and Macedonians, shaped up to be quite the opposite.

While considering the conquests of Carthage and Rome, Alexander the Great died of malaria in Babylon (now Iraq), on June 13, 323 B.C. He was just 32 years old. Rhoxana gave birth to his son a few months later.

After Alexander died, his empire collapsed and the nations within it battled for power. Over time, the cultures of Greece and the Orient synthesized and thrived as a side effect of Alexander's empire, becoming part of his legacy and spreading the spirit of Panhellenism.

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• Birth Year: 356
• Birth date: July 20, 356
• Birth City: Pella
• Birth Country: Greece
• Gender: Male
• Best Known For: Alexander the Great served as king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 B.C. During his time of leadership, he united Greece, reestablished the Corinthian League and conquered the Persian Empire.
• Astrological Sign: Cancer
• Death Year: 323
• Death date: June 13, 323
• Death City: Babylon, Persia (now Iraq)
• Death Country: Iraq

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50 positive life quotes to inspire, and lift your spirit each day

" Life's a climb. But the view is great ." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out.

During those instances, you might feel lost. But words of encouragement can help. Certain quotes can inspire and remind you to live life to the fullest and persevere through whatever challenges come your way.

If you're looking for more, here is a list of quotes about life throughout the decades:

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50 quotes about life

• "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." – Maya Angelou , "And Still I Rise"
• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." –  Robert Frost
• "Life is a long lesson in humility." – J.M. Barrie , "The Little Minister"
• "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde
• "The most important thing is to enjoy your life–to be happy–it's all that matters." – Audrey Hepburn
• "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone." – Reba McEntire
• "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." – Joseph Campbell
• "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Love the life you live. Live the life you love." – Bob Marley
• "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." – Marie Curie
• "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." –  Friedrich Nietzsche
• "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
• "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." – Henry Ford
• "In order to write about life first you must live it." – Ernest Hemingway
• "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." – Les Brown
• "It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver." – Betty White
• "Live for each second without hesitation." – Elton John
• "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." – E. E. Cummings
• "Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy Bennett
• "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." – Mark Twain
• "I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving." – Tina Turner
• "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas Edison
• "I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." – Ann Richards
• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin
• "You do not find the happy life. You make it." – Camilla Eyring Kimball
• "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." – Jackie Robinson
• "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." – Eleanor Roosevelt
• "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
• "If you own this story you get to write the ending." – Brené Brown
• "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." – Lillian Dickinson
• "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse
• "There are no regrets in life, just lessons." – Jennifer Aniston
• "Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself." – Harvey Fierstein
• "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." – Frank Lloyd Wright
• "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." – Bruce Lee
• "Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts." – Nikki Giovanni
• "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." – Soren Kierkegaard
• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs
• "If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." – Beyoncé
• "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." – Gail Sheehy
• "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." – Booker T. Washington
• "Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful." – Annette Funicello
• "The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything." – Frank Sinatra
• "I think I've discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it." – Charles Schulz
• "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths." – Drew Barrymore
• "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine
• "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." – Katherine Mansfield
• "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." – Henry Boye
• "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

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60 Self-Love Quotes You Should Read to Yourself Every Day

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To always feel your best, you have to take care of yourself — and we’re not just talking about pampering. Sometimes, simply reading about self-love can help you achieve the best version of yourself — which is why we’ve gathered some of the best self-love quotes out there. Try to read through them every day, as a constant reminder that you are, indeed, oh-so-special. But don’t forget to keep that attitude up all day long.

Try to spend some time taking care of your body by exercising (even going for a walk will suffice!), or simply stand in front of the mirror and give yourself a compliment. You deserve it!

And if you ever need a little reminder, here it is: You are special, you are unique, you are loved and you deserve to be recognized for all the wonderful things you do each and every day.

Go on now and start loving yourself even more!

• “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” - George R.R. Martin
• “You change the world by being yourself.” - Yoko Ono
• “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” - Shannon L. Alder
• “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too.” - Jennae Cecelia
• “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” - E.E Cummings
• “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” - Carl Gustav Jung
• “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” - Beau Taplin
• “Our first and last love is self love.” - Christian Nestell Bovee
• “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Gustav Jung
• “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” - Katrina Mayer

• “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath
• “No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.” - Michelle D’Avella
• “Feel the fact that you are enough.” - Mark Nepo
• “Don’t fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance.” - Ashley Graham
• “Treat yourself like someone you love.”- Glennon Doyle
• “I’m safe inside this container called me.” - Haruki Murakami
• “I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it If you don’t ask for something, you’re not going to get it.” - Ashley Graham
• “And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ’I have been waiting my whole life for this.” - Nayyirah Waheed
• “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” - Rupi Kaur
• “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” - Robert Morley
• “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”- Warsan Shire
• “Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me.” - Ain Eineziz
• “If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.” - Thomas Edison
• “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” - William Shakespeare
• “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” - Mark Twain

• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” - Barbara De Angelis
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”- George Bernard Shaw
• “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” - Dolly Parton
• “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” - Brené Brown
• “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” - Coco Chanel
• “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” - Jamie Lee Curtis
• “There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.” - Nayyirah Waheed
• “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” - Wayne Dyer
• “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” - Rupi Kaur
• “Doubt kills more dreams than failure.” - Suzy Kassem
• “You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value you have a purpose. All is well.” - Abraham Hicks
• “This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself.” - Cheryl Strayed
• “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” - J.K. Rowling

• “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” - Lucille Ball
• “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” - Maya Angelou
• “Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
• “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” - Paulo Coelho
• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.” - Alexandra Vasiliu
• “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” - Diane von Furstenberg
• “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” - Kim McMillen

• “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” - Maya Angelou
• “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” - Venus Williams
• “Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts.” - Bianca Sparacino
• “Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.”- Suzy Kassem
• “We accept the love we think we deserve.” - Stephen Chbosky
• “It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong.” - Lena Dunham
• “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” - Louise Hay
• “I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.” - Serena Williams
• “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!...’” - Dr. Seuss

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55 Memorial Day quotes to honor and remember the fallen

Falling on Monday, May 27 this year, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer .

Much like July 4 or Labor Day, Memorial Day is a federal holiday , and banks, credit unions and the post office are closed in observance.

Families often use the three-day weekend as an opportunity to host backyard cookouts or spend the day at the beach to kick off the summer season.

Memorial Day, however, is also a designated day of remembrance for U.S. military personnel and intended to honor those who've given their lives in service to their country.

To pay tribute, we've gathered a list of Memorial Day quotes to recognize those courageous men and women who've made the ultimate sacrifice.

Established in 1868, Memorial Day was initially founded in remembrance of Confederate and Union soldiers who perished in the Civil War. In the decades since, the holiday, which is also referred to as "Decoration Day," has come to represent all Americans lost in war.

On Memorial Day it is common for friends and families to remember loved ones with flowers, flags and mementos placed at their gravesite.

However you choose to spend Memorial Day this year, take a moment to share one of these inspiring quotes and remember to thank members of the U.S. military for their service.

Memorial Day quotes

• “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” — Carrie Jones
• “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ― Winston Churchill
• “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” — Arthur Ashe
• “He who is brave is free.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• "The wind is us ― it gathers and remembers all our voices, then send them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields." ― Truman Capote

• “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.” — John Milton, “Paradise Lost”
• “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” — George Bernard Shaw
• "When duty calls, that is when character counts." — William Safire
• “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” — Elmer Davis

• "Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing." — Emma Donoghue
• "For each thorn, there's a rosebud...For each twilight — a dawn...For each trial — the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud — a rainbow...For each shadow — the sun...For each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." — Theodore Roosevelt
• "The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree." — Thomas Campbell
• “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” — James Allen

• "Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country." — George Washington
• “In valor there is hope.” — Tacitus
• “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” — W.E.B. DuBois
• “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”― Thomas Campbell
• “I got to fight on till I leave here, and I hope I leave some footprints.” — Mattie Jones

• “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” — Ranata Suzuki
• "Without a sign his sword the brave man draws and asks no omen but his country's cause." — Homer
• "The legacy of brave men and women who have fought and died for their country is the freedom we enjoy as Americans." – Lucian Adams
• "Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time." – Eleanor Roosevelt
• "The brave may fall, but never yield.” – Author unknown

• “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”― Antonio Porchia
• "Think about the past and consider the sacrifices men and women in the military have made for us." – Gary G. Wetzel
• "America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." – Harry S. Truman
• “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Colonel David Hackworth
• “Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” — Michelle Obama

• “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” — Benjamin Disraeli
• "Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed by the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." — Emily Dickinson
• "For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death.' — Julius Cesar
• “Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.” — John Milton, “Paradise Lost”

• “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” — Nathan Hale
• "Americans may not only pay tribute to our honored dead but also unite in prayer for success in our search for a just and lasting peace." — John F. Kennedy, "Prayer for Peace," Memorial Day 1962
• "Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” — James Frey, "A Million Little Pieces"
• "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." — Bob Dylan
• "Courage is found in unlikely places." — J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

• "Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." — Michel de Montaigne
• "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." — Napoleon Hill
• “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

• “The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.” — William Jennings Bryan
• “I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!” — Daniel Webster
• “The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.” — Woodrow Wilson
• “I see that the old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.” — Douglas MacArthur
• “The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.” — Calvin Coolidge

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115 Funny Quotes Guaranteed to Make You Laugh

From hilarious sayings about life to silly quips about friends, you're sure to get a good chuckle.

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Once you enjoy these clever quotes and quips from comedic legends, feel free to share them with your friends and family so that they can laugh, too. And don’t worry, they’re kid-friendly, so you can also share these funny jokes for kids with the youngsters in your life. Among our extensive list are quotes from popular sitcoms such as The Office and New Girl , as well as quotes from notable authors, actors, and comedians. We’re looking at you, Will Ferrell, Joan Rivers, and Zach Galifianakis.

But don’t let the laughter stop there — we also have round-ups of funny puns , corny jokes , knock-knock jokes , and anti-jokes (yes, that’s a real thing) to read next. But be warned: you may laugh till you cry.

Best Funny Quotes

• "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." — Michael Scott, The Office
• "People say money is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured, if you have enough money, you can have a key made." — Joan Rivers
• "I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness." ― Bill Watterson
• "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." ― Mae West
• "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." ― W.C. Fields
• "I'm not crazy — I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years." — Ouiser Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias
• "It is not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it." — Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls
• "Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas." — Paula Poundstone
• "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are." — Will Ferrell
• "Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford." — Cindy Crawford
• "All the things I like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." — Alexander Woollcott
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." ― Albert Einstein
• "Everybody wants to save the earth. No one wants to help mom do the dishes." — P.J. O'Rourke
• "As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice. You can either be right, or you can be happy." — Ralphie May
• "Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system." ― Ellen DeGeneres
• "People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever's in the glass." — Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls
• “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” — Bryan White
• “I need a six-month vacation twice a year.” — Unknown
• “I’m not convinced I know how to read, I’ve just memorized a lot of words.” — Nick Miller, New Girl

Short Funny Quotes

• "I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!" ― Charles M. Schulz
• "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." — Jerry Seinfeld
• "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov
• "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." — Jim Carrey
• "The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone." — Dolly Parton
• "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." ― Phyllis Diller
• "Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener." — Pauline Thomason
• "I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?" — Jean Illsley Clarke
• "If you can't be kind, at least be vague." — Judith Martin
• "Anybody who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any." — Samuel L. Jackson
• "Reality continues to ruin my life." ― Bill Watterson
• "Don't be so humble — you are not that great.” ― Golda Meir
• "Never miss a good chance to shut up." ― Will Rogers
• "I've had great success being a total idiot. " ― Jerry Lewis
• "Instant gratification takes too long." — Carrie Fisher
• "My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best." ― Winston S. Churchill
• "I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it." ― Mae West
• "I always cook with wine. Sometimes, I even add it to the food." — W.C. Fields
• "When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye." ― Cathy Guisewite
• "I drink to make other people more interesting." — Ernest Hemingway

Funny Quotes For Friends

• "Well, you know what they say: If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me." — Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias
• "A woman is like a tea bag: You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." — Oprah Winfrey
• "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." — Benjamin Franklin
• "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'" — Groucho Marx
• "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're OK, then it's you." — Rita Mae Brown
• ​​"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't really know me." — Garry Shandling
• "I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural." — Truvy Jones, Steel Magnolias
• "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." — Oscar Wilde
• "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company." — Mark Twain
• “There is nothing better than a friend unless it’s a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
• “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” — Anna Deavere Smith
• “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?” — Jane Austen
• "Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway." — Greg Tamblyn
• "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." — Bernard Meltzer
• “Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.” — Terri Guillemets
• "Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with." — Robert Brault RELATED : Funny Best Friend Quotes to Make Your BFF LOL

Funny Quotes About Life

• "There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it." ― Mindy Kaling
• "Life is short. Drive fast, and leave a sexy corpse. That's one of my mottos." — Stanley Hudson, The Office
• "Sometimes, you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!" — Charlie Brown
• "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." — James Branch Cabell
• "I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." ― Oscar Wilde
• "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." ― Isaac Asimov
• "When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now, I realize I should have been more specific." — Lily Tomlin
• "I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort." — Zach Galifianakis
• "When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out." — Erma Bombeck
• "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." — Phyllis Diller
• "If you are not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them.” — Reese Witherspoon
• "Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path — unless you're in the woods, and you're lost, and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that." — Ellen DeGeneres
• "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." — David Lee Roth
• "The Lord gave us two ends: One to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." — Ann Landers
• "I'm not offended by blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. And I also know that I'm not blonde." — Dolly Parton
• "I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet." — Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
• "Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping." — Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls
• "I don't care what they say about me. I just want to eat." — Pam Beesly, The Office
• "Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living." — Meryl Streep

Funny Quotes About Work

• "Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired." — Sandra Bullock
• "Everything I have I owe to this job ... this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job." — Jim Halpert, The Office
• "An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. An office is a place where dreams come true." — Michael Scott, The Office
• "So this is my life — until I win the lottery." — Jim Halpert, The Office
• "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." — Oscar Wilde
• "Housework can't kill you, but why take the chance?" — Phyllis Diller
• "I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again." — Joan Rivers
• "I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." ― Jerome K. Jerome
• "I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." ― Charles Lamb
• "Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door." — Marcelene Cox
• "The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen." — Sarah Brown
• "You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage worth ethic." — Zig Ziglar
• "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — then success is sure." — Mark Twain
• "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers
• "No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early." — Groucho Marx
• "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." — Charlotte Whitton
• "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted." — Kevin Malone, The Office
• "Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing." — Dwight Schrute, The Office
• "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well." — Mark Twain

Funny Quotes About Aging

• "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." — Lucille Ball
• "​​Honey, time marches on, and eventually, you realize it is marchin' across your face." — Truvy Jones, Steel Magnolias
• "You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor instead of by the police." — Joan Rivers
• "People say, ‘How you stay looking so young?’ I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup." — Dolly Parton
• "Look, you didn't ask me for my opinion, but I'm old, so I'm giving it anyway." — Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls
• "No matter how bad things get, remember these sage words: You're old, you sag, get over it." — Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls
• "You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." — George Burns
• "Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese." — Luis Buñuel
• "As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." — Sir Norman Wisdom
• "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." — Phyllis Diller
• "The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it." — Shirley MacLaine
• "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana." — Betty White
• “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” — Woody Allen
• “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” — Ogden Nash
• “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” — Larry Lorenzoni
• “If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” — Mickey Mantle
• “I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age, I’m very pleased to be anywhere.” — George Burns
• “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain
• “Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” — John Wagner
• “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” — Bob Hope

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If you’re reading this, then you’re here for one reason – motivation . These motivational quotes are the place to start when you need a boost.

While it’s sometimes difficult to know what to do, we still have to get started. And what better way than to learn from those who have lived and shared the messages that motivated them.

So whether you’re lacking motivation or just need a little push to get going, get ready to be seriously motivated!

Here are our best motivating quotes to propel you to do more, be more, and achieve your goals today.

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Top 10 Motivational Quotes

We talk on principal, but act on motivation. Walter Savage Landor

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Vince Lombardi

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joe Kennedy

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. Arnold Palmer

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Robert Kiyosaki

The Best Motivational Quotes

It’s ok to need a little something extra to kick start your efforts sometimes. Finding motivation when you need it is often an important step to higher achievement.

Do you know what motivates you? In case that’s not an easy question to answer, we hope you’ll find something to motivate you right here with the best motivational words we could find.

So whether you’re at work, school, or anywhere in between, these lines should stoke your fires.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. Oprah Winfrey

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King Jr.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

God always strives together with those who strive. Aeschylus

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. Babe Ruth

The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday. Matty Mullens

Never give up , for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stow

The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot. Benny Lewis

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. William Arthur Ward

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. Orrin Woodward

Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there. Robert Collier

If you’re going through hell, keep going Winston Churchill

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. Robert Schuller

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil

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

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson

Motivational Quotes for Work

Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work. Richard Bach

The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. Jessica Hische

Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato

An employee’s motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. Bob Nelson

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. Kim Garst

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. John Wooden

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. Michael Phelps

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. Steve Jobs

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. Mike Gafka

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. John C. Maxwell

When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. Karen E. Quinones Miller

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein

The individual who says it is not possible should get out of the way of those doing it. Tricia Cunningham

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Lorimer

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

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. David Allen

Motivational Quotes for Students

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden

The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Balthasar Gracian

To know and not to do, is not to know. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Huxley

Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is. Dragos Roua

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. Francis Chan

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Vernon Sanders Law

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci

There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes. John C. Maxwell

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn

Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey

If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person. Clayton M. Christensen

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Always remember that you are absolutely unique; just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare. Bobby Knight

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Michael Jordan

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. Ray Goforth

Motivational Thoughts

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. Earl Nightingale

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

If you continue to think they way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got. Kevin Trudeau

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. Pele

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. Grant Cardone

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore N. Vail

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. Booker T. Washington

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you. Mark Cuban

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. George Whitefield

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get. Michael Phelps

Whatever the mind of man can conceive, and bring itself to believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful, and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble. Orrin Woodward

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Watiley

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach . Benjamin Mays

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schulz

Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny. Stuart Scott

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. W. Clement Stone

Quotes about Motivation

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen Covey

There is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. Jane Smiley

Everything boils down to motivation. Brendon Burchard

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. Wayne Dyer

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti

Competition is the best form of motivation. Cordae

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top. Kevin Plank

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax. Taika Waititi

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder. Natlaie Glubis

I’m not one for those motivational speeches. I’ve always been more of an example guy. Carey Price

People always need to hear good motivational speeches. Rudy Ruettiger

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. Damon Galgut

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one. Gretchen Bleiler

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there. Michael Schumacher

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal. Arsene Wenger

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short. Jocko Willink

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. Bo Bennett

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it. Edmund Hillary

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. Lee Iacocca

I didn’t need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day. Adam Thielen

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future. Thomas Frey

The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh. Bradley Wiggins

Other people’s success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. Nicholas Hoult

Self-Motivation Quotes

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. A.A. Milne

I’m self-motivated. I’m motivated for myself to be the best I can be – for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy. Deshaun Watson

I am not afraid… I was born to do this. Joan of Arc

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein

Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change. Barbara Baron

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! T. Harv Eker

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Arthur Christopher Benson

If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore. Michele Ruiz

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. Laird Hamilton

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances. Anthony J. James

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. Andrew Murphy

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bern Williams

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. Napoleon Hill

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Pauline Kael

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. Paulo Coelho

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt

When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. Terry Bradshaw

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Toynbee

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. Washington Irving

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden

Motivating Quotes

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. Dale Carnegie

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Charles Dickens

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. Philippos

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

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

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. Isabelle Lafleche

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. George Herbert

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or you’re out. There is no such thing as life in-between. Pat Riley

Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Winston Churchill

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. Robin Sharma

Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda, Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. Sheryl Sandberg

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. James Dean

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. Michael Jordan

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. Brian Tracy

Taking it easy won’t take you anywhere. Nike Slogan

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman

Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis

We hope all of these motivational quotes have you pumped up and ready to take action.

Whatever type of motivation works for you, the important part is to use it to achieve your goals. We all have the potential to do more and be more when we want to be. So go find yours and live up to it today!

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6 thoughts on “Motivational Quotes”

This Quote is My fav. “What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert H. Schuller

Those collections are meaningful and easy to remember. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” is my favourite one and hope I can do what I want to do soon. Thank you for sharing.

Every quote you shared is very motivating and will help who is really looking for some motivation. For some of motivational blog and stories you can visit my website.

Wow!! It was a beautiful collection of quotes. Some not heard of (best part of your collection that it’s not filled with the common ones) but so deep and meaningful. Great piece of work! Glad came across this. Was looking for some quote for our magazine and looks like I’ve reached the destination.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” First time hearing this quote and I think it’s brilliant! Thanks for this article, Quincy!

Excellent list, thank you for this.

I would like to add a quote from the late hero, Kobe Bryant.

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

This would be great to share in your article.

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Bridgerton: what exactly is a viscount, why bridgerton's lady whistledown revealed her family's own secret scandal.

• Lady Whistledown knows everyone's secrets - her eloquence and influence make her a formidable force in London's high society gossip scene.
• Edmund Bridgerton's wisdom lives on - his advice to show all sides of yourself to someone you care for resonates with his children.
• Eloise challenges society's norms - her desire for more than a life as just a wife and mother inspires women to seek more in life.

Bridgerton is a delightful amalgam of the old and new, and viewers love watching the spicy Regency-era drama with these memorable quotes. The series follows the Bridgerton family and the eight siblings that make it up as they fall in love. Each season of the series spotlights a different sibling and a different romance trope, making the show feel more like an anthology despite its serial nature. The show has demonstrated the Regency era versions of fake dating (Daphne and Simon), enemies to lovers (Anthony and Kate), and friends to lovers (Colin and Penelope).

Shonda Rhimes' reimagined historical drama is something new, unlike other stuffy and chaste players in the same genre. Even the dialogue in the show isn't uptight - the mix of old-world niceties with modern manners is surprisingly pleasant and highly addictive. Lady Whistledown's naughty magniloquence, Eloise's hilarious one-liners, and Daphne and Simon's ardent speeches kept fans hooked to the period drama, and even offered nuggets of wisdom on several occasions. A few of these Bridgerton quotes stood out and stayed in audiences' minds.

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"My Name Is Lady Whistledown. You Do Not Know Me, And Never Shall. But Be Forewarned Dear Reader, I Certainly Know You."

Lady whistledown.

The mysterious gossip columnist of London's high society had her eye on everyone and a way with words starting with the very first episode of the show. Nobody could quite figure out who the eloquent and omniscient Lady Whistledown was and how she had access to every secret and scandal in the ton. She made it her duty to report on every aspect of gossip, even gossip that might mar her own reputation.

The columnist also knew her power and wasn't scared to assert it over the rest of the milieu. She was intent on keeping her identity confidential but wasn't afraid to use her influence to make things happen in the city. Her old-style fluency and literary poise were unforgettable, which made sense since she was one of the smartest characters in Bridgerton .

"You Cannot Show Someone Your Best Without Allowing Them To See Your Worst."

Edmund bridgerton.

The Bridgerton patriarch is dead before the events of the series take place, and Bridgerton Season 2 reveals just what the circumstances are that lead to his demise. He clearly leaves a lasting impression on his children as they each deal with the trauma of losing their father throughout the show, particularly Anthony. Witnessing his father's death is very traumatic, but Edmund also has some wise words for his children to carry with them in the flashbacks that introduce him to the audience.

It's interesting that Edmund encourages his family members to be themselves when they care for someone because debuting in society, as Daphne and Eloise find, is all about presenting a particular package to eligible suitors. Clearly, Edmund wasn't so concerned about his sons or daughters marrying strategically since he and Violet were friends who fell in love.

"Why Must Our Only Options Be To Squawk And Settle Or To Never Leave The Nest? What If I Want To Fly?"

Eloise bridgerton.

Vivacious Eloise Bridgerton made no bones about her views on London society right from the start of the show - women were treated like objects to be exchanged in marriage and weren't ever encouraged to do anything beyond settling down with a husband, or staying a spinster with their parents. Eloise believed the women of the ton were trapped, though she didn't have much knowledge of women who lived and worked outside of the ton.

Still, she wanted to do much more, like the men of the ton who had a universe of options ahead of them when they came of age. Eloise often discussed her ambitions beyond just marriage with Penelope, hoping to inspire other women to take a stand and claim their rights. Her journey introduced her to some radical thinkers in season 2 and almost got her in trouble with the queen.

"It Is You I Cannot Sacrifice. I Burn… For You.”

Daphne bridgerton.

Perhaps the most popular quote from Bridgerton that became a rage all over the internet, Daphne said this to Simon soon after they got married. Despite being in love, the two were only married in name and didn't share a relation beyond the titles of husband and wife. Neither of them could see that their feelings were reciprocated at first, believing their marriage to be a forced on to save Daphne's reputation (and by extension, her sisters').

When the passion they had for each other became too much to ignore, she said these words to the Duke . The chemistry between the Duke and Daphne was absolutely scintillating, and this proclamation of affection led to the long-waited union between the Diamond of the Season and the coveted former bachelor. Daphne and Simon were clearly soulmates .

"You Are The Bane Of My Existence And The Object Of All My Desires."

Anthony bridgerton.

When Anthony and Kate meet in Season 2, there's an obvious attraction despite them constantly battling one another. Anthony picks Kate's sister to court, with the plan that he's only going to marry the "diamond" of the social season, but he just can't seem to keep himself from thinking about, or taunting, Kate as she blocks him from getting serious with her younger sister repeatedly.

His delivery of this line had social media in a flurry nearly as soon as season 2 dropped on Netflix, so it's no surprise that it's becoming one of the most talked-about scenes in the show. As much as neither of them wants to admit that they're drawn to one another, Anthony just can't let Kate go. His confession of his feelings to Kate is one of the best love confessions the show has done so far.

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"If You Desire The Sun And The Moon, All You Have To Do Is Go Out And Shoot At The Sky. Some Of Us Cannot."

Forever a champion of women's rights, the younger Bridgerton, Eloise, was a feminist icon . She made some very poetic yet salient observations about the difference in status afforded to men and women in the early seasons of the show, firmly establishing her interest in advancing the position of women in society. The two sexes led lives that were markedly different, and a lady couldn't grow beyond becoming a wife and a mother.

She said these lines to her brother one night while talking with Benedict, mourning how she had no room to achieve any material or work-related success in life because society didn't allow her to, whereas Benedict and her other brothers could go out and do whatever they liked. Benedict even began taking art classes while Eloise was still stuck at home learning to be a wife.

“Everything I Told The Queen Was True. I Cannot Stop Thinking Of You. From The Mornings You Ease, To The Evenings You Quiet, To The Dreams You Inhabit, My Thoughts Of You Never End. I Am Yours, Daphne. I Have Always Been Yours.”

Simon basset.

If Daphne expressed her emotions for the Duke, he couldn't be far behind either. In the same scene in which Daphne confessed to "burning" for him, he gave an impassioned missive about how the beautiful Bridgerton daughter had taken over his thoughts and captivated his heart. Though he might have maintained a pretense of not liking her, he did find genuine friendship with her as they kept up the ruse of courting during the social season. It was because there was no pressure on them that they could be themselves with one another and fall in love.

It was quite lovely to hear the otherwise aloof Simon be so candid about his thoughts, and finally accept the love of a woman when he had vowed to stay away from marriage and the likes for the longest time. The romance in these few lines is also evocative and beautiful.

"Was I Truly This Blind? Were They Always This Obvious?"

Edwina sharma.

The heart of the audience breaks a bit for Kate's younger sister with this Season 2 Bridgerton quote. After all, Anthony appears to the public to fully intend on marrying Edwina. Edwina is so worried that her sister's hostility will push Anthony away that she even urges them to spend more time together, completely missing that the hostility is because they're trying to avoid how they feel for her sake.

When the truth is revealed to Edwina, she worries that she's been a fool for not seeing it sooner. While the audience, of course, is privy to every point of view, Edwina is so preoccupied with her own social obligations that she never sees what's right in front of her, and it's not entirely her fault. She has spent the social season trying to secure a good match to help provide for her family, just as Kate has instructed her, and she doesn't realize until it's too late that her good match is in love with her sister.

"To Meet A Beautiful Woman Is One Thing, But To Meet Your Best Friend In The Most Beautiful Of Women Is Something Entirely Apart."

Romance was the last priority in Simon Basset's life, which was a pity because it came so naturally to the Duke. With Daphne, he had met his match. The couple had to go and ask the Queen's permission to marry quickly to avoid any rumor or scandal following their relationship, and in his plea to the regent, he said that marriage was but an unbreakable bond of friendship, and he had found his best friend in Daphne.

Both Simon and Daphne were extremely emotional as they said this, and they were also under a lot of pressure to make the Queen agree to their marriage, but it was clear that he meant every word he said. While Daphne believes at first that he is lying to make the queen more sympathetic to them, Simon later admits that everything he tells the queen is true, even if he hasn't admitted it to Daphne before.

"I Love All Of You. Even The Parts That You Believe Are Too Dark And Too Shameful. Every Scar. Every Flaw. Every Imperfection. I Love You."

The courtship between the leading couple of Bridgerton was electric, but their marriage was tumultuous. The two seesawed a fair bit between being in love and then hating each other, but Daphne stated her intentions for the Duke quite clearly, even after the Duke's vow to not procreate. With both of them being so stubborn and misunderstanding the other on a regular basis, it took them a while to get to the point where they were on the same page.

Daphne finally understood her partner's past and his hang-ups after learning more about his father and his childhood, which was a relief for fans who wanted a happy ending for them. Bridgerton knew how to set a romantic atmosphere, and this scene was a great combination of dreamy rain and great dialogue for the pairing.

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"You Are, Pen. You Do Not Count. You Are My Friend."

Colin bridgerton.

It's no secret to the audience that Penelope Featherington has feelings for Colin Bridgerton from their first interaction. As Eloise's best friend, Penelope is a fixture among the Bridgertons and has had feelings for Colin since first meeting him. Colin, for his part, doesn't realize in the first two seasons of the show, and that leaves him breaking her heart without even realizing it.

When Penelope jokes that Colin has sworn off women, but he's talking to her at a social function, he decides she doesn't count because of their friendship. In Colin's eyes, Penelope isn't someone he should be looking at as a potential wife or someone to court because she is one of his dearest friends . She's more than someone to flirt with at a ball and then move on to the next. Though his lines here are relatively tame, it's a moment that stays with the audience long after it's over.

“Yes, I Know. You Are Not The Marrying Type. Yet Have You Considered You Are Not The Type Women Wish To Marry?”

The best part of Simon and Daphne's courtship was the witty banter between the two. The couple got along like fire, and their initial flirting and teasing formed the foundation of their relationship. Simon was notorious for being a bachelor who didn't care for a wedding, which he used to make amply clear to Daphne. Daphne in return quipped that women weren't lining up to marry Simon either: he wasn't exactly the loving, warm man that they wanted to marry.

It was nice to see her take down the Duke off of his high horse, and the repartee was fun to watch. Of course, Daphne's point might have been slightly lost since the mothers of the young women in society were certainly vying for the Duke's attention. They wanted to give their daughters a chance with him, which is exactly the reason he agrees to the fake relationship with Daphne to begin with.

"Edmund Was The Air That I Breathed, And Now, There Is No Air."

Violet bridgerton.

So much attention is paid to the older Bridgerton siblings that sometimes, the parents of the eight children might be forgotten a bit by the audience. After all, the love stories playing out are that of the new generation, not their parents. Without Violet and Edumnud, however, the children wouldn't have this grand idea of a love match.

As more is revealed about Violet and Edmund Bridgerton it's made very clear that they married for love. So many relationships are born from social and financial strategy, but the Bridgertons are a family where love is the priority, even if some of them would like to ignore that. Violet Bridgerton's admission that she feels like she can't breathe when she loses her husband is where that starts. With parents who loved one another so dearly, why wouldn't the children want fulfilling relationships instead of strategic ones?

"Me, Unavailable; You, Desirable."

The beginning of the elaborate ploy between Daphne and Simon began with these words. Simon wanted to keep bachelorettes and their mothers off his back, and Daphne wanted to get other suitors interested in her after making a mistake on the marriage mart, so they decided to fake a romance to kill two birds with one stone. Their fake courting is analogous to modern rom-coms that employ fake dating to make someone else jealous.

This line described their situation perfectly, and the planned romantic entanglement really did increase Daphne's potential suitors, and Simon was considered spoken for which made their lives easier to an extent - until they fell in love with each other. That's when the real trouble begins as they hide their feelings and miscommunicate. Ironically, the earliest part of their fake courtship is the easiest part of their real relationship.

“All Is Fair In Love And War But Some Battles Leave No Victor, Only A Trail Of Broken Hearts That Makes Us Wonder If The Price We Pay Is Ever Worth The Fight.”

All the characters of Bridgerton have been at the mercy of the ubiquitous Lady Whistledown, and she could see every little thing that happened to them thanks to her own presence on the ton's social scene. Since love and marriage were so crucial in Regency-era London, it was the one thing that the writer focused on, especially the heartbreaks.

In "Swish," Lady Whistledown revealed Marina's pregnancy, breaking Colin's heart and their engagement. It was clear that Penelope had decided to out Marina to the ton because she loved Colin, but she also did it to protect him. However, she felt no vindication - the three of them were left brokenhearted and disappointed. This particular quote illustrates exactly that as Penelope's words as Lady Whistledown often have a way of reflecting the most prominent romances in Bridgerton .