200 Life Changing Quotes That Shift Your Perspective

Life changes in small moments.

A sentence that hits at the right time.

A reminder you didn’t know you needed.

A truth that makes you see things differently. These words stay with you because they open a door you didn’t notice before.

These life changing quotes are meant to do exactly that. Gentle pushes toward a better version of you.

Life Changing Quotes

“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

“Try not to regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” – Mark Twain

“You can’t wait for life to not be hard anymore to start being happy.” – Nightbirde (Jane Marczewski)

“A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Leave the world in a better place than you found it.” – Robert Baden-Powell

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“Smooth seas never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” – Nelson Mandela

“Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something.” – Jake the Dog

“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themself into.” – Jonathan Swift

“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” – Dwight Schrute

“You live two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.” – Confucius

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito

“It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day.” – BoJack Horseman

“No matter what happens in your life, don’t die before your death.” – Unknown

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins

“Life is a difficult teacher. It gives the test first, then the lesson.” – Vernon Sanders Law

“All that’s necessary for evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“No one has made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” – Edmund Burke

“You do not need a perfect life to have an amazing one.” – Unknown

“The meaning of life is to bring meaning to your life.” – Ken Hudgins

“Never take criticism from someone you’d never ask for advice.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.” – Albert Camus

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” – Albert Camus

“Loving yourself doesn’t come on its own. You have to actively choose to love yourself every single day.” – Unknown

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“The most important step a person can take is always the next one.” – Brandon Sanderson

“If not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder

“You are who you hang out with.” – Proverb

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton

“If it won’t matter in 5 years, don’t be upset about it for more than 5 minutes.” – Unknown

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” – George Carlin

“Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become” – Heraclitus

“Keep Swimming!!” – Dory

“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard Baruch

“Money is not the most important thing, but it’s up there with oxygen.” – Zig Ziglar

“Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you are not willing to look like a foolish beginner, you will never become a graceful master.” – Unknown

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran

“When you enter a room you should worry less about if those people like you, and worry more about if you like them.” – Unknown

“Where is there to get to? You’re already here, this is life, you’re living it.” – Unknown

“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Seek simplicity and distrust it.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“If you are good you’ll tell everyone. If you are great people will tell you.” – Walter Payton

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.” – Ranulph Fiennes

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere.” – Unknown

“It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That isn’t weakness. That is life.” – Jean-Luc Picard

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“You can’t get back what you never had.” – Unknown

“Pray to God, but continue to row to shore.” – Russian Proverb

“When you’re out for revenge dig two graves.” – Confucius

“This too shall pass.” – Persian Adage

“Do or do not, there is no try.” – Yoda

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If you try your best and we fail, it’s not your fault, but if you don’t try and we fail, it’s all your fault.” – Orson Scott Card

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” – Unknown

“The only stupid question is the one not asked.” – Proverb

“It’s easier to apologise than ask permission.” – Grace Hopper

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” – Haruki Murakami

“Nothing in this world will take the place of persistence. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Perfect is the enemy of good.” – Voltaire

“You only live once, but if you do it right it’s enough.” – Mae West

“You only regret things you didn’t do.” – Unknown

“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“What you focus on is what you feel.” – Unknown

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

“The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost

“The only constant is change.” – Heraclitus

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou

“There is no road map. Your career is more like scaling a rock wall than driving a car.” – CEO of CACI

“Get your own house in order before you criticize others.” – Jordan Peterson

“Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid

“Do what you hate.” – Unknown

“Remember, when you reached your worst state, it only can get better.” – Nana

“The only wrong decision is to quit.” – Unknown

“If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” – James Clear

“Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“You are what you do every day.” – Aristotle

“You can’t change the world, but you can make a dent in it.” – Unknown

“Nothing becomes of nothing.” – William Shakespeare

“Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas

“To laugh often and much… This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” – David Foster Wallace

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

“No one is coming to save you.” – Unknown

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

“You can be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don’t like peaches.” – Dita Von Teese

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

“Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, both are true.” – Henry Ford

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues.” – Maya Angelou

“A mistake that makes you humble is far better than an accomplishment that makes you arrogant.” – Proverb

“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

“You will be judged by the company you keep.” – Proverb

“The shadow is just a passing thing.” – Samwise Gamgee

“You are the only person left who has those people living through you.” – Glenn Rhee

“When you really want something, you play through the pain.” – Bobby Hill

“Nothing changes… if nothing changes.” – Unknown

“When one door closes, another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you are breathing, that means you are alive, so how bad is it really?” – Unknown

“You are not what you accomplish, you are what you overcome.” – Unknown

“You don’t have to like everyone, you just have to love them.” – Unknown

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“The harder you work the luckier you get.” – Samuel Goldwyn

“Luck favors the prepared.” – Louis Pasteur

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood… but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“Ask yourself what would Batman do? Then don’t do that.” – Legal Advice Forum

“It’s not about what happens to you, it’s about how you react.” – Epictetus

“The only time success comes before work is in a dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.” – Mary Schmich

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – Niccolò Machiavelli

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“The more often the captain of a ship is in the tempest and difficult sailing the greater his knowledge becomes.” – Abdu’l-Baha

“Keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out.” – Walter Kotschnig

“When everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted.” – Unknown

“If you were born into a world where you don’t fit in, it’s because you were born to help create a new world.” – Unknown

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin

“You can’t fix stupid.” – Ron White

“You’re more of a man if you walk away from a fight than you are if you pick one.” – Random Guy on a Bus

“If you lose and die on the battlefield, you’ll go to heaven, if you win, you’ll get heaven right here on earth.” – The Bhagavad Gita

“The goal is not to be better than the other man but your previous self.” – Dalai Lama

“Be the person you needed when you were younger.” – Unknown

“It is what it is.” – Unknown

“Stop comparing your behind the scenes to everyone’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick

“You have all the weapons you need, now fight.” – Sucker Punch

“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story.” – Lex Luthor

“You are owed nothing, earn what you want.” – Unknown

“Don’t take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard

“If you can fix it, fix it. If not, why worry about it?” – Dalai Lama

“Life’s simple, you make choices and you don’t look back.” – Han Seoul-Oh

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” – Harvey Dent

“If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.” – Stan Lee

“Everything is temporary.” – Unknown

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Live while you live.” – Philip Doddridge

“Carpe diem.” – Horace

“Don’t wait. The time will never be ‘just right.'” – Unknown

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become.” – Eric Thomas

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“He who has hope has everything.” – Arabian Proverb

“The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” – Mark Nepo

“Keep calm and carry on.” – British Government Slogan

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” – Mark Twain

“You have all the power you need within you.” – Unknown

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“You can’t fix stupid.” – Ron White

“Keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out.” – Walter Kotschnig

“When everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted.” – Unknown

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“You can do everything right… and you can still fail. Keep your ego in check and be humble.” – Unknown

“This too shall pass.” – Persian Adage

“What you focus on is what you feel.” – Unknown

“Do something your future self will thank you for.” – Unknown

“A lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine.” – Bob Carter

“Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid

“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees.” – Douglas Malloch

“If you can fix it, fix it. If not, why worry about it?” – Dalai Lama

“When you reach your worst state, it only can get better.” – Nana

“Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others.” – Unknown

“You are who you are in the darkness.” – Unknown

“Be the person that your younger self would look up to and your older self would be proud of.” – Unknown

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“If you try your best and we fail, it’s not your fault; if you don’t try and we fail, it’s all your fault.” – Orson Scott Card

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