Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes

“Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.”
-Sir J. Stephen

“Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.”
-Marcus Aurelius

“Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.”
-Epictetus

“Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.”
-Henry W. Longfellow

“If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.”
-Sir Joshua Reynolds

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.”
-Kahil Gibran

“If you don’t know where you are going,
you’ll end up someplace else.”
-Yogi Berra

“We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”
-Viktor Frankl

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
-Henry Ford

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
-Seneca

“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.”
-Author Unknown

“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.”
-David Ogilvy

“There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.”
-Logan Pearsall Smith

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
-William James

“Years teach us more than books.”
-Berthold Auerbach

“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
-Thomas Huxley

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.”
-Latin Proverb

“No man was ever wise by chance.”
-Seneca

“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.”
-John Tillotson

“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”
-Catherine the Great

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.”
-Henry Ward Beecher

“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business—or almost anywhere else for that matter.”
-Lee Iacocca

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
-Francis Bacon

“In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.”
-Victor Cousins

“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.”
-Dennis Waitley

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
George S. Patton

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
- President Harry S. Truman

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
-St. Clement of Alexandra

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
-Arthur C. Clarke

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
-Aristotle

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
-Samuel Johnson

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
-Confucius

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
-Albert Einstein

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
-Winston Churchill

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”
-Matthew Prior

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
-Voltaire

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
-Benjamin Disraeli

“Inspiration and genius—one and the same.”
-Victor Hugo

“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”
-Plutarch

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

“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.”
-Jules Renard

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
‘Leave no stone unturned.’”
-Edward Bulwer Lytton

“If you would create something,
you must be something.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.”
-Thomas Carlyle

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
-Leon J. Suenes

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
-John Muir

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
-Epictetus

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
-Helen Keller

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
-Jawaharal Nehru

“Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.”
-Thomas Fuller

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”
-Hypocrites

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
-Italian Proverb

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”
-La Bruyere

“Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.”
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

“We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.”
-Earl of Beaconsfield

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
-Frank Loyd Wright

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
-Christopher Morley

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
-Vince Lombardi

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is:
Try to please everybody.”
-Herbert Bayard Swope

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
-Josh Billings

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
-Earl of Beaconsfield

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”
-Evan Esar

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.”
-Henry W. Longfellow

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”
-Albert Einstein

“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.”
Theodore T. Hunger

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
Robert Collier

“They can because they think they can.”
Virgil

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
Euripides