Inspirational Quotations About Life, Dreams, & Love
You’re not alone if you’ve ever wondered what to write in a birthday, graduation, or anniversary card (it’s always nice to add your two cents, even if it’s not your original words!). Here are 27 inspirational quotations about living life fully, loving, pursuing your passions, and expressing yourself. These quotations suit almost any celebration or event.
Here’s an inspirational quotation to get you started:
- “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow Wilson
Inspirational Quotations About Relationships
- “I’ll tell you a secret about this world: it meets you exactly where it finds you and gives you what you present to it. So, if you go out there looking for anger, it will justify your anger. If you go out there looking for love, it will justify your love. If you’re looking for animosity and hatred, it will give you animosity and hatred. It will match exactly what you put out. That’s the key if you want health, wealth, and happiness.” - The Daily Guru
Inspirational Quotations About Regret
- “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” - Glenn Clark.
- “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” - Mark Twain
Inspirational Quotations About Pursuing Your Dreams
- “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” - Dr. Thomas Fuller.
- “Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories.” - Jesse Jackson.
- “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” - William James.
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams
- “The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.” - Steven Wright
- “There is one mental attitude which is fatal and which you must avoid, and that is the attitude of believing yourself the victim of circumstances, condemned to a dreary grind from which escape is impossible or very difficult. It is not so. They that are for you are very many more in number than they that are against you. The mountain round about you is full of chariots and horsemen, if you will open your eyes and see them.” - Wallace D. Wattles
Inspirational Quotations About Accepting Yourself
- “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” - Paul Tillich
Inspirational Quotations About Expressing Yourself
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” - Harvey Fierst
- Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over the soul. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown.
- “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” - Christopher Morley
Inspirational Quotations About Life in General
- “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to also have lived the width of it as well.” - Diane Ackerman
- “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.” - John Stuart Mill.
- “Believe me: the secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” - Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” - John Kenneth Galbraith.
- “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” - Alfred D. Souza
- “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” - Anonymous.
- “Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum - but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” - Lao-Tzu
Inspirational Quotations About Love
- “The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there.” - Yasutani Roshi
- ”This is to love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” - Jelaluddin Rumi.
And One Last Inspirational Quotation About Living Life Fully
- “Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO - what a ride!” - unknown (do you know who said this? Please comment below!)
