82+ Best Better Life Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Better Life Quotes

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks

Success is a journey not a destination. Ben Sweetland

Being happy never goes out of style. Lilly Pulitzer

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

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

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot  it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. W. Clement Stone

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back. Ann Richards

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

Never lose sight of the face that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people. Barbara Bush

Success only comes to those who dare to attempt. Mallika Tripathi

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate I choose love. Johnny Cash

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. Estée Lauder

I don’t go by the rule book I lead from the heart, not the head. Princess Diana

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

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. Eudora Welty

You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. Nina Simone

The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into place. Lucille Ball

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn

If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself. Gabrielle Union

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. Jackie Robinson

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring. Lilly Pulitzer

You are your best thing. Toni Morrison

If I’d have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I’d be really tired. Willie Nelson

By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire

Caring for myself is not self indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. Audre Lorde

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

I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life. Kerry Washington

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner

If we give our children sound self love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them. Bell Hooks

Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson

Be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. Julia Roberts

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Henri J.M. Nouwen

Now it’s the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that’s what life is all about. Joanna Gaines

Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life. Omar Khayyam

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. Carlos Santana

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh

All serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty

Life just doesn’t hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that’s the exciting part. Emeril Lagasse

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible! Audrey Hepburn

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. Ralph Ellison

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. Loretta Lynn

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. Oscar Wilde

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are. Martin Luther King Jr.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer

You’re going to go through tough times  that’s life. But I say, Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events. Joel Osteen

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J.M. Barrie

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. Beyoncé Knowles

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill

You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do. Barbara Bush

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham

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

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. Mario Fernández

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

The secret to getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts. Nikki Giovanni

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground. Rosa Parks