400+ Amazing Quotes on Life

Last update June 6, 2019.

Life can be complicated. It can be simple. It can be happy or sad.

Today as it was thousands of years ago.

Now, the human experience has in some ways changed but in many ways it has stayed pretty much the same.

I have shared many wonderful, insightful and amazing quotes here on The Positivity Blog over the years because of that reason.

Because I think there are many things we can learn and apply to our lives from the wisest people who have been here before us.

In this article I have collected all those articles in case you have missed some of them over the years.

I hope you will find many useful and inspiring thoughts among all these quotes that will help you to live a more awesome life.

101 Inspiring Happiness Quotes

This is the biggest collection of quotes I put together so far on one of my absolute favorite topics.

53 Inspiring Self-Esteem and Self-Love Quotes

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha

29 Inspiring Procrastination and Productivity Quotes

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller

101 Motivating Quotes on Success

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

21 Quotes to Help You to Stop Overthinking (+ My 5 Favorite Tips)

“Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.”
Robert Herjavek

25 Empowering Worry Quotes

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
E. Joseph Cossman

55 Inspiring Quotes on Dreams (and on Making Them Real)

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw

101 Good Morning Quotes to Help You to Start Your Day Right

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius

68 Inspiring Relationship Quotes

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

36 Inspiring Quotes on Letting Go and Moving On

“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

74 Motivating Quotes on Strength and Making It Through Hard Times

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
Flavia Weedn

101 Short Quotes and Sayings about Life

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius

30 Inspiring Quotes on Stress

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid

74 Inspiring Friendship Quotes

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. Lewis

41 Inspiring Quotes on Failure (and How to Handle It)

“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 have failed by default.”
J.K. Rowling

34 Inspiring Quotes on Criticism (and How to Handle It)

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
Charles Schwab

22 Inspirational Quotes on Fear

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

51 Inspiring Love Quotes

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred Tennyson

44 Inspiring Quotes on Failure (and How to Handle It)

“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Virgil Thomson

10 Inspirational Quotes on Forgiveness

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert Muller

50 Great Quotes on Leadership

“To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!”
Lao-Tsu

17 Inspirational Quotes on People Skills

“The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.”
Beatrice Vincent

10 Inspirational Quotes on Relationships

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

9 Great Quotes on Criticism

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”
Frank A. Clark

54 Inspirational Quotes on Education

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
Clay P. Bedford

14 Inspirational Quotes on Courage

“Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.”
Diane Mariechild

20 Inspirational Quotes on Happiness

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb

14 Inspirational Quotes on Understanding

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
Kahlil Gibran

46 Inspiring Quotes on Money and Wealth

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”
James W. Frick

14 Inspirational Quotes on Simplifying Your Life

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard