40 Short Better Life Quotes To Inspire Real Change
We all want a better life.
Not a perfect one. Just better than where we are now. More peace. More purpose. More moments that actually feel good.
But wanting it and doing something about it are different things. Change is hard. It’s easier to stay comfortable even when comfortable doesn’t feel that great anymore.
Sometimes you just need a reminder that it’s possible. That other people have done it. That you can too.
These better life quotes might be that reminder. They’re about taking the first step toward something different.
Short Better Life Quotes
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
“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
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — Carl Jung
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” — James M. Barrie
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” — Robert Brault
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
