100 quotes that can change your life forever now

Welcome to this curated collection of “100 Quotes That Can Change Your Life Forever Now.”

As a counselor, I understand the profound impact that words can have on our mental and emotional well-being.

Quotes encapsulate wisdom, inspiration, and motivation in just a few words, providing us with powerful reminders and fresh perspectives.

Each quote in this collection has been carefully selected to inspire personal growth, resilience, and positivity.

Whether you’re seeking motivation, solace, or a new outlook on life, these quotes can serve as a guiding light on your journey toward a more fulfilling and empowered life.

Quotes that can change your life

1. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
2. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
3. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
4. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” — Brian Tracy
5. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
6. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
8. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
9. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” — Oliver Goldsmith
10. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
11. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
12. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
13. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
14. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
15. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
17. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens
18. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
19. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
20. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
21. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
22. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
23. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
24. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
25. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
26. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
27. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
28. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
29. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” — Robert Byrne
30. “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
31. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
32. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
33. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
34. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
35. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” — Matt Cameron
36. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
37. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
38. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
39. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein
40. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
41. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
42. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
43. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
44. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
45. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” — Martin Luther King Jr.
46. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
47. “Life is trying things to see if they work.” — Ray Bradbury
48. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
49. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
50. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton
51. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
52. “Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.” — Unknown
53. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
54. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” — Dan Reeves
55. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
56. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” — Ken Hudgins
57. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson
58. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
59. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
62. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
63. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” — Steve Maraboli
65. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” — Mark Zuckerberg
66. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” — R. Brault
67. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu
68. “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
69. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa
70. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain.” — Unknown
71. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
72. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
73. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
74. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw
75. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Bagehot
76. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump
77. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
78. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
79. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
81. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
82. “It is not the length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi
84. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” — Mother Teresa
85. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” — Lewis Carroll
86. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” — James Dean
87. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
88. “What we think, we become.” — Buddha
89. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
90. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
91. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha
92. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” — Brian Tracy
93. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
94. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
95. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
96. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
97. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
98. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
99. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
100. “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