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Inspirational Life Quotes

Looking for inspirational life quotes? This focused collection gathers 24 of the best life quotes in a inspirational spirit, drawn from our full life collection. Tap Copy to save your favourites.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

— Henry David Thoreau

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

— Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

— Buddha

Don't count the days; make the days count.

— Muhammad Ali

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

— Albert Einstein

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

— Dr. Seuss

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life — but a smooth road never made a skilful driver.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

— Walt Whitman

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

— Seneca

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

— Helen Keller

What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

— Rumi

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

— J. K. Rowling

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