20 Most Inspiring Quotes on Life, Love & Happiness

Inspirational quotes and motivational sayings have an amazing ability to change the way we feel about life. This is why I find them so interesting and crucial on our paths to success. As you aspire to do great things, use these uplifting quotes for inspiration to be all you can be.

Here are my favorite inspirational quotes about life, love & happiness:

1. “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”John Lennon

2. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”Jack Canfield

3. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”Arthur C. Clarke

4. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”Marcel Pagnol

5. “Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.”George Bernard Shaw

6. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”Kahlil Gibran

7. “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”Thomas Edison

8. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”Mark Twain

9. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”Aristotle

10. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”Maya Angelou

11. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”Will Rogers

12. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”Charles Swindoll

13. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”Sydney Harris

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

15. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”Bruce Lee

16. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”Albert Einstein 17. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”Harvey Fierstein

18. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”Helen Keller

19. “There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.Josiah Gilbert Holland

20. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”Les Brown