Life sometimes feels like a roller coaster ride. There are many joyful and marvelous moments. But there are also challenges and setbacks. To help you rekindle the magic you once felt about life, we’ve created this selection of inspirational short quotes about life. Enjoy reading and be sure to also have a look at our powerful life quotes to inspire greatness.
While some of the drawbacks in our lives are certainly our own fault, randomness and happenstance also play a big role. In many cases, life will throw larger than life obstacles in your way without it being your fault. In fact, you’re absolutely not to blame for the circumstances you grew up in.
“Don’t dream your life, live your dream.”
Miasha Coleman
You may not always be able to prevent setbacks and disappointments from happening to you. You won’t be able to change where you were born and how you were raised. However, you can always change how you think about it. You can always be willing to forgive and move on with your life. You can always work yourself out all the challenges life is confronting you with.
These short life quotes inspire you to strive for greatness
That’s where short life quotes come in quite handy because they will quickly help you to change your frame of mind. These are the short statements that will both inspire and motivate you to strive for greatness.
130 Inspirational Short Quotes about Life to Strive for Greatness
Summing up the magic of life and inspiring people to overcome their limitations is quite an art. Not every writer, motivational speaker, and business person is able to do that. But those who are capable to summarize the art of living in a condensed and short manner have quite a beneficial impact. Let’s have a look at these people’s motivating thoughts on life.
Enjoy this collection of short quotes about life
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
J.K. Rowling
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Vivian Greene
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“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain
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“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything.”
Anthony Robbins
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“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”
Charlie Chaplin
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
John A. Shedd
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas A. Edison
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“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars”
Cecelia Ahern
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Helen Keller
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
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“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Marcus Aurelius
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“It is up to you to give life a meaning.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Life is the moment we’re living now.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn
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“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
Bob Ross
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“Do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
Rick Riordan
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“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer
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“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world.”
David Mitchell
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
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“The present moment is all you have.”
Eckhart Tolle
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“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“This life is what you make it.”
Marilyn Monroe
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“Life’s as kind as you let it be.”
Charles Bukowski
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“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde
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“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
Wayne W. Dyer
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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu
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“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
Lao Tzu
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“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
Steve Maraboli
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“Live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
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“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46.
“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
47.
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot
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“Life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
Marilyn Monroe
49.
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
C.S. Lewis
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“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.”
Mitch Albom
These short quotes about life are to the point
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“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
Henry Rollins
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell
54.
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
Antonio Porchia
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
56.
“What we do for love: those things endure.”
Cassandra Clare
57.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”
John Lennon
58.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
Roy T. Bennett
60.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
61.
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup.”
Paulo Coelho
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“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”
Steve Maraboli
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“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
Maya Angelou
66.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Aim higher in case you fall short.”
Suzanne Collins
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“One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
Kurt Cobain
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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
John Green
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“The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“If you’ve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
Leonard Cohen
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“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
Alan Moore
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“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
Steve Maraboli
79.
“Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
Chico Xavier
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
John Green
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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Joseph Campbell
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“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
Eckhart Tolle
83.
“I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
84.
“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
85.
“Art is the proper task of life. „
Friedrich Nietzsche
86.
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
Mary Shelley
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“Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane
88.
“Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”
Sidney Sheldon
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“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.”
Aristotle
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein
92.
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
93.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
94.
“Make the most of yourself… for that is all there is of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
95.
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
St. Francis Of Assisi
97.
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
98.
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
Tupac Shakur
99.
“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”
Nicholas Sparks
100.
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Haruki Murakami
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
102.
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
Rumi
103.
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
104.
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
Isaac Asimov
105.
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
Jo Nesbo
106.
“Life has no remote… get up and change it yourself!”
Mark A. Cooper
107.
“Life is too short to cry for anything.”
Santosh Kalwar
108.
“Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”
Richard Branson
109.
“Be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
Alan Watts
110.
“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
111.
“Life, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to care what we want.”
Richelle Mead
112.
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
Fernando Pessoa
113.
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
114.
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
115.
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
Jim Butcher
116.
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
Suzanne Weyn
117.
“Love wins. Love always wins”
Mitch Albom
118.
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
Coco Chanel
119.
“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
120.
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.”
Lev Grossman
121.
“Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
122.
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Anaïs Nin
123.
“Clouds add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
124.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
Voltaire
125.
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
126.
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo Coelho
127.
“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
Nicola Yoon
128.
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders
129.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
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“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life.”
J.D. Stroube
I hope you enjoyed this collection of short quotes about life. What are your favorite quotes from this list?
Stay victorious!
1 Comment
Great list! One of the best quotes on following your dream, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” by Steve Jobs