50 Quotes That Hit Different About Life
Life is a complex tapestry woven from our experiences, relationships, dreams, and challenges. At times, we seek wisdom in words that resonate with the depths of our being; quotes that capture the essence of our journeys, aspirations, and the very fabric of existence.
Whether it’s about embracing the present, navigating relationships, pursuing dreams, or reflecting on the brevity of life, certain quotes have the power to hit different, offering insights that stay with us long after we’ve heard them.
In the following collection, you’ll find words from various thinkers, leaders, and writers; words that continue to inspire, provoke thought, and provide comfort in the many stages of life.
Famous Quotes That Hit Different
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese Proverb - “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky - “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain - “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott - “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Buddha - “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt - “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
— Muhammad Ali - “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller - “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius - “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs - “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama - “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
— J.K. Rowling - “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Plato - “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw - “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Albert Schweitzer - “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin - “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey - “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
— Charles R. Swindoll - “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis - “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. - “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln - “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
— John D. Rockefeller - “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair - “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
— Tony Robbins - “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd - “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”
— Bob Marley - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
— African Proverb - “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
More Quotes That Hit Different
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke - “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost - “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi - “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot - “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates - “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle - “Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien - “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson - “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 - “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde - “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices.”
— J.K. Rowling - “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson - “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho - “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon - “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela - “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Henry Stanley Haskins (Often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson) - “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”
— Albert Einstein - “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling - “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart - “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Unknown
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