101 Quotes

42. Make a list of 101 quotes that make me happy and inspire me.


1. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
2. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein

3. Do it now.  Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never’

4. Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
5. "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Joseph Addison

6. "It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde

7. "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” – Mary Oliver

8. Life is short. Do stuff that matters.

9. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose." - Dr. Suess

10. "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got." - Robert Brault

11. The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.

12. "Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have." - Lloyd Alexander

13. Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire, and push each other. Unsuccessful people just hate, blame, and complain.

14. Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress.

15. "Today me will live in the moment. Unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie." - Cookie Monster

16. "There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter

17. Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive.

18. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

19. "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess

20. The older you get, the more you realize that it isn't about the material things or pride or ego. It's about our hearts and who they beat for.

21. There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

22. Self-confidence is the best outfit. Rock it and own it.

23. Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

24. Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

25. It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

26. "Carpe Diem boys. Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society

27. Failure doesn't come from falling down. Failure comes from not getting back up.

28. "You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to." - Good Will Hunting

29. "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm possible." - Audrey Hepburn

30. You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump.

31. Decide what makes you happy and fight for it.

32. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

33. "Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

34. "A misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune." - Henry David Thoreau

35. With the right music you can forget anything or remember everything.

36. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." - J.K. Rowling

37. "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light." - J.K. Rowling

38. "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' expectations drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." - Steve Jobs

39. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. "Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." - Maya Angelou 

45. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou

46. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." - Maya Angelou

47. "Leadership requires confidence tempered with humility and courage blended with tolerance." - The Creed of Alpha Delta Pi

48. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

49. Never take anyone for granted. Hold every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you've lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones.

50. "Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

51. "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." - Coco Chanel

52. "Today you are YOU. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you." - Dr. Suess

53. "The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time." - Thomas Edison

54. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

55. "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

56. "If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we are not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone." - Jack Canfield

57. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

58. "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin

59. When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

60. "Do one thing every day that scares you." -Eleanor Roosevelt

61. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

62. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin

63. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

64. "Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

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

66. Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

67. "When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." - Thomas Jefferson

68."If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather, because of what we believe." - Lyndon B. Johnson

69. "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." - Ronald Reagan

70. "Just keep swimming." - Finding Nemo

71. "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George Burns

72. "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever." - Walt Disney

73. "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

74. "Dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

75. "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." - Jane Austen

76. "Fear doesn't shut you down. It wakes you up." - Veronica Roth

77. "You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." - Mandy Hale

78. "Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing." - Mandy Hale

79. "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela

80. "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Nelson Mandela

81. "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee

82. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth

83. Nobody is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers.

84. "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - John Lennon

85. Live like there is no tomorrow. Sing as if no one can hear. Love like you have never been hurt. Dance as if there is no one watching. Laugh like no one is listening.

86. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee

87. "Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth." - Janet Evanovich

88. "If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy." - Jane Austen

89. "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

90. "I'd far rather be happy than right." - Douglas Adams

91. "Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway." - Emory Austin

92. "To do what aught to be done, but would have not been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty." - Robert Morrison

93. "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

94. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

95. Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

96. Life is like a camera. You focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negative, and if things don't work out take another shot.

97. "If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl 

98. "Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." - Maya Angelou

99. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

100. Live with intention. Walk the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

101. Home is where the pool is.