For the past 10+ years I’ve shared many quotes. Quotes about love, happiness, success, self-esteem and many other topics.
I simply love inspiring quotes so today I’d like to share 21 of the best quotes of all time.
I hope you’ll find them as helpful, uplifting, thoughtful and motivating as I have over the years.
You can read the quotes below or watch a video I put together with some inspiring music and images to complement these timeless thoughts.
Video: The 21 Best Quotes of All Time
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
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Albert Einstein
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’
George Bernard Shaw
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb