120 Best Motivational Quotes to Live Your Best Life

If you are looking for that spark to ignite your passion and motivate you to live your best life, then there's nothing quite like a collection of powerful, uplifting quotes to brighten your day and fill your heart with purpose. These quotes are like little doses of wisdom that push us to embrace life’s moments, pursue our dreams, stay positive and tackle challenges with courage and resilience.

When you’re living your best life, you’re not just existing—you’re also thriving. It’s about showing up every day with joy, energy, and determination to make each and every moment count. Whether you need a gentle reminder to keep going or a bold push to step out of your comfort zone, these motivational quotes are here to inspire you to chase your goals and embrace life’s journey.

Let’s dive into this collection of 120 motivational quotes that will inspire you to live your best life—starting today!

1. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha

2. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama

3. "Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

4. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." – Robert Brault

5. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

6. "Every moment is a fresh beginning." – T.S. Eliot

7. "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill

8. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

9. "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." – Omar Khayyam

10. "Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs

11. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." – Eleanor Roosevelt

12. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius

13. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

14. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde

15. "Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today." – James Dean

16. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius

17. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

18. "Don’t count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali

19. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

20. "Make each day your masterpiece." – John Wooden

21. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

22. "The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

23. "Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." – Rikki Rogers

24. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh

25. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine

27. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou

28. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller

29. "Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." – Roy T. Bennett

30. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman

31. "Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter." – Dan Reeves

32. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett

33. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère

34. "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’" – Mary Anne Radmacher

35. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu

36. "When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go." – Carol Burnett

37. "Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene

38. "Opportunities don’t happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

39. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

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

41. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." – Henry David Thoreau

42. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela

43. "Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." – Robert Kiyosaki

44. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

45. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

46. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

47. "Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

48. "Keep your dreams alive. Understand that to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself." – Gail Devers

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

50. "Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. "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

52. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey

53. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius

54. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

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

56. "Happiness is not by chance but by choice." – Jim Rohn

57. "Don’t count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali

58. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

59. "Do more things that make you forget to check your phone." – Unknown

60. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

61. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are." – Brené Brown

63. "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind." – Dr. Seuss

64. "Don’t compromise yourself—you’re all you’ve got." – Janis Joplin

65. "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

66. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn

67. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway." – Eleanor Roosevelt

68. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde

69. "It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort." – Jillian Michaels

70. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse

71. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." – Maya Angelou

72. "Be so good they can’t ignore you." – Steve Martin

73. "Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller

74. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." – Joseph Campbell

76. "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do." – Brené Brown

77. "You were born to be real, not to be perfect." – Anonymous

78. "What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength." – Meryl Streep

79. "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." – Ashton Kutcher

80. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

81. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

82. "If you’re not willing to risk the usual, you’ll have to settle for the ordinary." – Jim Rohn

83. "The best investment you can make is in yourself." – Warren Buffett

84. "You are capable of more than you know." – Glinda, Wizard of Oz

85. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." – Edmund Hillary

86. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." – Dale Carnegie

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

88. "Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt

89. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh

90. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

91. "You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. Start doing." – Irish Proverb

92. "Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you." – Mary Kay Ash

93. "Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong." – Mandy Hale

94. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

95. "Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." – Roy T. Bennett

96. "It’s never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot

97. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." – Napoleon Hill

98. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney

99. "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

100. "Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people." – Anonymous

101. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough." – Anonymous

102. "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." – Elbert Hubbard

103. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey

104. "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." – Theodore Roosevelt

105. "What we think, we become." – Buddha

106. "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." – Cicero

107. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll

108. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius

109. "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." – Mark Twain

110. "Choose to be optimistic; it feels better." – Dalai Lama

111. "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." – Henri Matisse

112. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." – E.E. Cummings

113. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive." – Marcus Aurelius

114. "Happiness is not a goal. It’s a by-product of a life well lived." – Eleanor Roosevelt

115. "Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time." – Anonymous

116. "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." – William James

117. "You must do the things you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt

118. "If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." – Milton Berle

119. "Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy T. Bennett

120. "Joy is not in things; it is in us." – Richard Wagner