75 Life Quotes — Inspiring the Happy, Good and Funny in Life
Here’s a list of 150 life quotes divided into three sections: Inspiring, Happy and Good, and Funny. These quotes can offer motivation, wisdom, and humor as you navigate life.
Inspiring Life Quotes
1.“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
2.“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
3.“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
4.“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
5.“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
6.“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
7.“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
8.“Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
9.“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Unknown
10.“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
11.“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
12.“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
13.“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
14.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15.“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
16.“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
17.“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
18.“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
19.“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
20.“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21.“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
22.“It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
23.“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
24.“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
25.“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy and Good Life Quotes
26.“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
27.“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
28.“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
29.“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” – Carl Sandburg
30.“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
31.“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
32.“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
33.“Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have.” – Unknown
34.“The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
35.“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
36.“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
37.“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
38.“Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.” – Albert Schweitzer
39.“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
40.“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
41.“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
42.“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
43.“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
44.“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
45.“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning, and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
46.“Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
47.“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
48.“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
49.“Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
50.“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
Funny Life Quotes
51.“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” – Unknown
52.“I am not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
53.“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer
54.“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire
55.“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” – Luis Buñuel
56.“Life is too short to be serious all the time. If you can’t laugh at yourself, call me—I’ll laugh at you.” – Unknown
57.“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
58.“I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.” – Tommy Cooper
59.“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump (Movie)
60.“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A.A. Milne
61.“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” – Steven Wright
62.“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
63.“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey
64.“The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.” – Michael Scott (The Office)
65.“Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
66.“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
67.“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
68.“I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.” – Unknown
69.“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown
70.“I am on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.” – Unknown
71.“If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
72.“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.” – Alan Dundes
73.“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” – Dave Barry
74.“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
75.“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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