100+ Life Lessons Quotes & Sayings That Inspire You

Quotes are nothing but guidance for those who seek motivation, knowledge, wisdom and inspiration. In this blog, I’ve collected more than 100 quotes and sayings about life lessons. Inspiring life lessons quotes help you understand life in a better way and guide you toward success

Inspiring Life Lessons Quotes

1. “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”―Paulo Coelho

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

3. Don’t become too attached to outcomes or beliefs. Remain open to all possibilities and ideas. _Unknown

4. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ―Oprah Winfrey“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ―Søren Kierkegaard

5. Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing. _Unknown

6. “Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.” ―Thich Nhat Hanh“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ―Rumi

7. Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can’t learn it from art, you can’t learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is a shadow. Everything is in half tint. _Unknown

8.. “Life is 10 per cent what you make it, and 90 per cent how you take it.” ―Irving Berlin“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” ―Marshall McLuhan

9. Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. _Anonymous

10. “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labour, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.” ―Harland Sanders


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11. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”Nikola Tesla

12. The direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast. _Unknown

13. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”– Mark Zuckerberg

14. “The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.” – Henry Ford

15. “The truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.” – Adyashanti


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16. “Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvellously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”– Thich Nhat Hahn

17. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them―that only creates sorrow. Let reality be the reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ―Lao Tzu

18. Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you. _Unknown

19. The direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast. _Unknown

20. “We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put the fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.”– Fred Hampton


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21. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi

22. “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” – Carl Jung

23. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”– George Bernard Shaw

24. “It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”– Aristotle

25. “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ― Chico Xavier

26. Don’t allow something to make you feel like you’re not good enough. _Unknown

27. “I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Katie Taylor

28. Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you. _Unknown

29. Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. _Unknown

30. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou


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31. “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Og Mandino

32. “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.” – Drew Gerald

33. “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

34. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”– Raymond Lindquist

35. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” ― Nicholas Sparks

36. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” ― Roy T. Bennett

37. “Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.”– Mandy Hale

38. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

39. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”– Lyndon B. Johnson

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40. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood

41. “Think of each failure, each heartache, and each loss in your life as a lesson in courage and resilience.” – Kate Anderson

42. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard

43. “You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

44. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”– Guy Finley

45. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.”– Dalai Lama


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46. “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” ― Lev Grossman

47. “My greatest life lessons have not come from any achievements I have attained but rather from the failures, heartaches, and setbacks that I have experienced.” – Dr. Marshall Hennington

48. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”– Dan Brown

49. “It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you interpret the lesson.” – Michelle C. Ustaszeski

50. “Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek

51. “Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.” – Steve Maraboli

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52. “I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G.

53. “Your past does not equal your future.”– Anthony Robbins

54. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” ― Nicole Sobon

55. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” ― Jojo Moyes

56. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ― Rick Warren

57. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown

58. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”– Herman Hesse

59. “Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” ― Plato

60. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ― Richard Branson

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61. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell

62. “We all make them, the difference is what we do after we make the mistake, how we see the mistake – a learning experience or a failure.” – Catherine Pulsifer

63. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz

64. “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris

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65. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber

66. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”– Joseph Campbell

67. “Over the years I’ve come to realize that mistakes are just lessons, life lessons almost like school. Once you’ve learned a lesson in class, you move on to the next lesson because now you know it. Well, mistakes are exactly the same.” – Rashard Royster

68. Distance in relationships can cause you to miss someone so much that it helps you to realize how much that persons means to you. _Unknown

69. All of us have a destination to reach but how we go through the journey makes all the difference. _Unknown

70. Being in love with life is the key to eternal youth. _Unknown

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

72. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder

73. “A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” ― Jodi Picoult

74. “I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on” ― Rascal Flatts

75. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. _Unknown

76. Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better. _Unknown

77. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live._Unknown

78. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca

79. “A man who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.” – Dave Thomas

80. A man who chases two rabbits catches neither. _Unknown

81. “Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.” – Ajaero Tony Martins

82. “I don’t dwell on the things that are too late to fix, but I do my best to get life’s lessons and put them into action.” – Les Brown

83. “Never be ashamed! There’s some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.” – J.K. Rowling

84. Be careful who open up to. Only a few people genuinely care. The rest are just curious to have hidden motives. _Unknown

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85. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

86. “The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”– Andrew Weil

87. “Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.” – Stephen King

88. “I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.”– Sylvia Plath

89. “And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

90. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling

91. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

92. “The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey

93. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney


94. “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” – B. Nicole

95. “Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.” – Mary Catherine Bateson

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97. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.” –Tony Robbins


98. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli

99. “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”– Grace Murray Hooper

100. “Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved.” – Swami Satchidananda

101. “You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos

102. “You can only lose what you cling to.”— Buddha

103. “Education is the key to unlocking the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver


104. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ―C. S. Lewis“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” ―Denis Waitley

105. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.” – Aristotle Onassis

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

107. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca