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Life and love can be challenging, but the right words can uplift and inspire.

In this post, discover 99+ motivational quotes for life and love designed to spark your inner strength and passion and lift you upward today.

Featuring famous thinkers and everyday heroes, classic literature and modern television, these life quotes are going to encourage you to embrace each moment as it arrives, with hope and positivity, a smile on your pretty face, a look in your eyes that shows courage.

You might be seeking guidance in tough times or wanting to celebrate life’s joys, but whichever reason led you here, you aren’t going to be disappointed.

These 99 unique inspirational quotes will motivate you today. Let’s begin!

Motivational Quotes for Life

#1 “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” –Neil Gaiman

#2 “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you” –Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

#3 “The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” –Roy T. Bennett

#4 “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5 “Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”-Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

#6 “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” —Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

#7 “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore

#8 “If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?” -Stephen King

#9 “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” -Vince Lombardi

#10 “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t “try” to do things. You simply “must” do things.” -Ray Bradbury

#11 “Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don’t try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.” -Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

#12 “If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.” – Roy T. Bennett

#13 “Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”- Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

#14 “To every problem, there is a most simple solution.” -Agatha Christie, The Clocks

#15 “Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.” -Earl Nightingale

#16 “Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.” –Norman Vincent Peale

#17 “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman

#18 “How you help others is admirable, but you must live your own life too.” -From Hometown Cha Cha Cha

#19 “But there’s always a first time for everything” -Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

#20 “Dream, Dream, Dream. Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.” -APJ Abdul Kalam

#21 “Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they’re blessings or lessons.” -Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

#22 “Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.” -Roy T. Bennett

#23 “For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

#24 “Something amazing happens when you’re in love and don’t give a damn about what day it is anymore.” -Chad Sugg

#25 “I still haven’t figured out how I should live my life. But I mist life fully.” -From Summer Strike

#26 “You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together…then you’ll hear the sound of your soul” -Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

#27 “If you go in the opposite direction of everyone else, you may be able to find a quiet, peaceful path that isn’t as crowded.” -From Summer Strike (Again, I can’t help it, I’m a big fan of kdramas).

#28 “If you are not the hero of your own story, then you’re missing the whole point of your humanity.”- Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

#29 “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” –From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

#30 “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” –From The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

#31 “The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up.” –Dumbo

#32 “My life has no big meaning or direction or purpose, and I’m happy.” —From Hope Floats

#33 “How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” –From Black Panther

#34 “It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.” –From Black Hawk Down

#35 “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

#36 “A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.” –From Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

#37 “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

#38 “Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up.” -From Hope Floats

#39 “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” –From A Streetcar Named Desire

#40 “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.” -From The Help

#41 “Be an outcast, Be pleased to walk alone.” —Alice Walker, Be Nobody’s Darling

#42 “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou

#43 “I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now.” -From The Incredibles

#44 “Just keep swimming.” — Finding Nemo

#45 “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.” —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

#46 “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” —From The Help

#47 “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis

#48 “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.” —From The Notebook

#48 “And sometimes you love a person just because they feel like home.” —Bridget Jones’s Diary

#49 “Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!” —Joseph Addison, Rosamond

#50 ‘Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.’ – Mark Twain

Whoa! Halfway through, soldier! Is adrenaline pumping through your veins yet? Has energy started coursing through your blood? I hope it has!

Inspirational Quotes

#51 “Never hurry and never worry!” —E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

#52 “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” –Plato

#53 “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” –Kurt Vonnegut

#54 “We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours before sunset to win them.” – Amy Carmichael.

#55 “Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, and it can never be used against you.” -From Game of Thrones

#56 “Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems.” —From SpongeBob SquarePants

#57 “Okay, I’m cookie dough. I’m not done baking yet. I’m not finished becoming… whoever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be. I make it through this and the next thing and the next thing, and maybe one day I turn around and realise I’m ready, I’m cookies.” – From Buffy The Vampire Slayer

#58 “Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.” –From Adventure Time

#59 “You don’t love because, you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” -William Faulkner.

#60 “Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.” –Anna White

#61 “Don’t be sorry, be fierce.’ -From Ru Paul’s Drag Race

#62 “You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.” – Charles Dickens.

#63 “Trust our heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.” –E. E. Cummings

#64 “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac

#65 “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare.

#66 “Promise me you’ll be braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

#67 “Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

#68 “Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson

#69 “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” ―Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

#70 “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” –E.M. Forster, Pharos and Pharillon

#71 “Courage is the ability to ignore your options.” Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

#72 “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.” Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

#73 “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” Eddie Rickenbacker

#74 “It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.” –Marguerite Yourcenar

#75 “Be merciless in your pursuit of greatness.”

#76 “Children have to play right now. Later is too late. It’s too late after getting into university, getting a job, and getting married. Play with marbles, tag, Red Rover, and double dutch. Later is too late.” —From Extraordinary Attorney Woo

#77 “Life’s battles don’t always go / to the stronger or faster man, / but soon or late the man who wins / Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!” —Walter D. Wintle, The Man Who Thinks He Can

#78 “If you keep running away, it’ll become a habit. You will have to face it at some point.”—Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area

#79 “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

#80 “I should start sleeping at night. Mornings are so wonderful.” -From A Poem A Day

#81 . “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” – Franz Kafka

#82 “You can slow down if you’re struggling. Just don’t give up. You can do that as an adult, right?” -From Run On

#83 “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

#84 “Every time I travel I meet myself a little more.” —Yrsa Daley-Ward, Coordinates

#85 “Of all the things I’ve loved, why have I never loved myself?” –From Run On

#86 “Treat yo’self.” —From Parks and Recreation.

#87 “The choice is yours. Will you live your life running away or will you fight and get a new life?”—Big Mouth

#88 “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” —Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

#89 “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

#90 “What’s coming will come and we’ll face it when it does.” —Hagrid

#91 “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

#92 “Stop trying to only predict tomorrow’s weather. Observe today’s as well. Look at the sky every now and then, enjoy the breeze on the rooftop, and gaze at the person you love. Why bother looking for tomorrow’s answers when you can’t even live in the present?” —From Welcome to Samdal-ri

#93 “Youth doesn’t last forever, but regrets do.” –From Reply 1997

#94 “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#95 “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” —Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth.

#96 “Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.” ―J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

#97 “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” – Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

#98 “Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning.” –The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe

#99 “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” –‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’, by Zora Neale Hurston

Bonus Life Quotes

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” —Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“To live a little better and always be forgiving, to add a little sunshine to the world in which we are living.” —Helen Steiner Rice, A New Beginning

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” —Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” – Sylvia Plath

Let us live, love and say it all in good sentences. That’s a life well-lived, well-remembered.