99 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
“Life is trying things to see if they work” – Ray Bradbury
“Peace begins with a smile” – Mother Teresa
“Turn your wounds into wisdom” – Oprah Winfrey
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows” – Ralph Marston
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” – John Wooden
“Success is not how high you have climbed but how you make a positive difference” – Roy T. Bennett
“Where there is love there is life” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It always seems impossible until it’s done” – Nelson Mandela
“Light tomorrow with today” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life is ours to be spent not to be saved” – D. H. Lawrence
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey” – Victor Hugo
“The greatest pleasure of life is love” – Euripides
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” – Albert Einstein
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Joy is not in things it is in us” – Richard Wagner
“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
“The measure of life is not its duration but its donation” – Peter Marshall
“Every moment is a fresh beginning” – T. S. Eliot
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness” – William Arthur Ward
“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world” – Dr. Seuss
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless” – Mother Teresa
“The simple acts of kindness are by far more powerful than many empty rituals” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud” – Maya Angelou
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within” – Maya Angelou
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough” – Aesop
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned” – Peter Marshall
“Do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up” – Mark Twain
“No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted” – Aesop
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” – Mark Twain
“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet” – Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Hope is a waking dream” – Aristotle
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter” – E. E. Cummings
“Happiness is a state of activity” – Aristotle
“The only way to have a friend is to be one” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who has hope has everything” – Arab proverb
“Every day brings new choices” – Martha Beck
“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream” – C. S. Lewis
“Courage is grace under pressure” – Ernest Hemingway
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet” – Aristotle
“The quieter you become the more you can hear” – Ram Dass
“The earth has music for those who listen” – George Santayana
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” – Seneca
“Be gentle with yourself you are doing the best you can” – Paulo Coelho
“Simplicity is the essence of happiness” – Cedric Bledsoe
“Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going” – Sam Levenson
“He who opens a school door closes a prison” – Victor Hugo
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little” – Plato
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it” – Confucius
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees others” – Aristotle
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness” – Washington Irving
“The strong man is the one who controls his own thoughts and reactions” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky
“Where there is hope there is life” – Anne Frank
“Let us always meet each other with a smile” – Mother Teresa
“Happiness is not by chance but by choice” – Jim Rohn
“The greatest step toward a better life is being kind” – Unknown
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A happy life consists not in the absence of difficulties but in the mastery of them” – Helen Keller
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” – David Viscott
“Good words bring good days” – Proverb
